Far Away Places

"Far Away Places" is an American popular song. It was written by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer and published in 1948.

The recording by Bing Crosby & The Ken Darby Choir was recorded on November 25, 1948^[1] and released by Decca Records as catalog number 24532. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on December 31, 1948 and lasted 18 weeks on the chart, peaking at #2.^[2] The recording by Margaret Whiting was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 15278. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on December 17, 1948 and lasted 15 weeks on the chart, peaking at #3.^[2] The recording by Perry Como^[3] was released by RCA Victor as catalog number 20-3316. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on January 7, 1949 and lasted 16 weeks on the chart, peaking at #6.^[2] The recording by Dinah Shore was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 38356. It reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on January 28, 1949 at #28 on its only week on the chart.^[2]

Recorded versions

Tom Anderson
Ray Anthony orchestra
The Bachelors (1963)
Benny Carter
Don Cherry
Perry Como (1949)^[3]
Ray Conniff
Sam Cooke
Bing Crosby & The Ken Darby Choir (recorded November 25, 1948)
Eddie & the Showmen
Ed Ames
Shelby Flint
John Gary
Engelbert Humperdinck
Enoch Light
Vera Lynn
Dean Martin
Glenn Miller
Willie Nelson
Donald Peers, song with orchestra. Conductor: Peter Yorke. Recorded in London on March 26, 1949. It was released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number B 9763.
Gene Pitney
Dinah Shore (1949)
Frank Sinatra
Johnny Hammond Smith
Kate Smith
The Springfields
Lawrence Welk
Margaret Whiting (1949)
Joe Wilder
Young-Holt Unlimited
Willie Nelson with Sheryl Crow (To All the Girls...)

References

^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top Pop Records 1940-1955. Record Research.
^ ^a ^b Gilliland, John. (197X). "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #22 - All Tracks UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-15.

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[1] "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved September 20, 2016.

[Whitburn-2] Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top Pop Records 1940-1955. Record Research.

[pc22-3] Gilliland, John. (197X). "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #22 - All Tracks UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-15.

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v t e Margaret Whiting
Albums	Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook Broadway, Right Now!
Singles	"That Old Black Magic" "Moonlight in Vermont" "It Might as Well Be Spring" "Come Rain or Come Shine" "Guilty" "Old Devil Moon" "Little Girl Blue" "But Beautiful" "Now Is the Hour" "A Tree in the Meadow" "Far Away Places" "Forever and Ever" "A Wonderful Guy" "Baby, It's Cold Outside" "Slippin' Around" "I Said My Pajamas (and Put On My Pray'rs)" "My Foolish Heart" "A Bushel and a Peck" "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" "I'll Walk Alone" "Outside of Heaven" "Why Don't You Believe Me?" "The Wheel of Hurt" "Only Love Can Break a Heart" "It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'" "Until It's Time for You to Go"
Related articles	Richard H. Whiting Richard A. Whiting Barbara Whiting Lou Busch Margaret Young Ira Clifton Copley

v t e Bing Crosby singles
Discography
1920s	"My Blue Heaven" (with Paul Whiteman) "Ol' Man River" (with Paul Whiteman) "Mississippi Mud" (with Paul Whiteman) "Silent Night, Holy Night" (with Paul Whiteman) "Makin' Whoopee" (with Paul Whiteman) "Let's Do It" (with Dorsey Brothers) "Louise"
1930s	"Three Little Words" (with Duke Ellington) "I Surrender Dear" (with Gus Arnheim) "Just a Gigolo" "At Your Command" "Stardust" "Goodnight, Sweetheart" "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" (Bing's Theme Song) "Waltzing in a Dream" "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" "Temptation" "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" "June in January" "Love Is Just Around the Corner" "I Wished on the Moon" "It Ain't Necessarily So" "I Can't Escape from You" "Pennies from Heaven" "Silent Night" "Adeste Fideles" "Sweet Leilani" "Blue Hawaii" "Never in a Million Years" "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon" "My Reverie" "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" "God Bless America" "Ciribiribin (They're So in Love)" (with Andrews Sisters)
1940s	"Tumbling Tumbleweeds" "Only Forever" "It's Always You" "New San Antonio Rose" (with Bob Crosby) "Dolores" "Deep in the Heart of Texas" (with Woody Herman) "Easter Parade" "White Christmas" "Moonlight Becomes You" "Sunday, Monday, or Always" "People Will Say We're in Love" (with Trudy Erwin) "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" (with Trudy Erwin) "Pistol Packin' Mama" (with Andrews Sisters) "I'll Be Home for Christmas" "Jingle Bells" (with Andrews Sisters) "Poinciana" "I Love You" "I'll Be Seeing You" "Swinging on a Star" "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" (with Andrews Sisters) "Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" (with Andrews Sisters) "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)" "Amor" "Long Ago (and Far Away)" "Don't Fence Me In" (with Andrews Sisters) "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (with Andrews Sisters) "You Belong to My Heart" "Along the Navajo Trail (with Andrews Sisters) "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" "If I Loved You" "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (with Les Paul Trio) "I Can't Begin to Tell You" "Symphony" "The Bells of St. Mary's" "McNamara's Band" "Sioux City Sue" "South America, Take It Away" "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" (with Andrews Sisters) "Night and Day" "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (with Andrews Sisters) "Galway Bay "Ballerina" "Now Is the Hour" "But Beautiful" "Far Away Places" "Careless Hands" "Riders in the Sky" "Some Enchanted Evening" "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" "Mule Train"
1950s	"Quicksilver" (with Andrews Sisters) "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" (with Andrews Sisters) "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" "Play a Simple Melody" (with Gary Crosby) "Sam's Song " (with Gary Crosby) "La Vie en rose" "All My Love" "Beyond the Reef" "Harbor Lights" "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" "A Marshmallow World" "Sparrow in the Treetop" (with Andrews Sisters) "Gone Fishin'" (with Louis Armstrong) "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (with Jane Wyman) "The Isle of Innisfree" "Zing a Little Zong" (with Jane Wyman) "Silver Bells" (with Carol Richards) "Down by the Riverside" (with Gary Crosby) "Young at Heart" "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep" "Stranger in Paradise" "In a Little Spanish Town" (with Buddy Cole Trio) "True Love" (with Grace Kelly) "Now You Has Jazz" (with Louis Armstrong) "Well, Did You Evah!" (with Frank Sinatra)
1970s	"That's What Life Is All About"
1980s	"Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" (with David Bowie)

v t e Perry Como
Albums	Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music (1946) So Smooth (1955) We Get Letters (1957) Saturday Night with Mr. C (1958) When You Come to the End of the Day (1958) Como Swings (1959) Season's Greetings from Perry Como (1959) For the Young at Heart (1960) Sing to Me Mr. C (1961) By Request (1962) The Best of Irving Berlin's Songs from Mr. President (1962) The Songs I Love (1963) The Scene Changes (1965) Lightly Latin (1966) Perry Como in Italy (1966) The Perry Como Christmas Album (1968) Look to Your Heart (1968) Seattle (1969) Perry Como in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas (1970) It's Impossible (1970) I Think of You (1971) And I Love You So (1973) Perry (1974) Just Out of Reach (1975) 40 Greatest Hits (1975) The Best of British (UK and Canada) (1977) Where You're Concerned (US) (1978) Perry Como (1980) Perry Como Live on Tour (1981) So It Goes / Goodbye for Now (1983) Today (1987) Perry Como's Christmas Concert (1994) On the Radio – The Perry Como Shows 1943 (2009) At the Supper Club (2010) At the Supper Club Part II (2011) At the Supper Club Part III (2011)
Songs	"'A' You're Adorable" "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" "And I Love You So" "As Time Goes By" "Bali Ha'i" "Because" "Beyond Tomorrow" "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" "Blue Room" "A Bushel and a Peck" "Can't Help Falling in Love" "Caterina" "Catch a Falling Star" "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)" "Confessin'" "Days of Wine and Roses" "Deep in the Heart of Texas" "Delaware" "Dig You Later (A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba)" "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" "Dream Along with Me (I'm on My Way to a Star)" "A Dreamer's Holiday" "El Cóndor Pasa" "Far Away Places" "Feelings" "Fly Me to the Moon" "For the Good Times" "Forever and Ever" "Forget Domani" "Give Me Your Hand" "Glendora" "The Gypsy in My Soul" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" "Hello, Young Lovers" "Here, There and Everywhere" "Home for the Holidays" "Hoop-Dee-Doo" "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" "A House Is Not a Home" "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore" "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" "I May Never Pass This Way Again" "I Think I Love You" "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" "I'll Be Home for Christmas" "If (They Made Me a King)" "It's a Good Day" "It's Been a Long, Long Time" "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" "Juke Box Baby" "Kewpie Doll" "Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)" "Long Ago (and Far Away)" "The Lord's Prayer" "Magic Moments" "Mandolins in the Moonlight" "Maria" "Moon River" "More" "No Other Love" "Papa Loves Mambo" "Please Mr. Sun" "Prisoner of Love" "Round and Round" "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" "Say You're Mine Again" "Seattle" "The Shadow of Your Smile" "Some Enchanted Evening" "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)" "The Songs I Love" "Stop! And Think It Over" "Surrender" "Till the End of Time" "They Say It's Wonderful" "Unchained Melody" "Wanted" "The Way You Look Tonight" "What'll I Do" "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" "Young at Heart"
Related	Perry Como discography Perry Como television and radio shows Beat the Band The Chesterfield Supper Club List of songs recorded by Perry Como Goodman Ace Mitchell Ayres Ray Charles Frank Gallop Nick Perito
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v t e Dinah Shore
Albums	Dinah Sings Some Blues with Red Dinah, Yes Indeed! Dinah Sings, Previn Plays Somebody Loves Me
Singles	"The Breeze and I" "Maybe" "Yes, My Darling Daughter" "My Man" "I Hear a Rhapsody" "Jim" "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" "Blues in the Night" "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" "Skylark" "Sleepy Lagoon" "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" "I'll Walk Alone" "Together" "Candy" "Along the Navajo Trail" "Personality" "Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" "The Gypsy" "Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)" "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" "You Keep Coming Back Like a Song" "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" "The Anniversary Song" "The Best Things in Life Are Free" "Little White Lies" "Buttons and Bows" "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)" "Far Away Places" "So in Love" "Forever and Ever" "Baby, It's Cold Outside" "A Wonderful Guy" "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" "Can Anyone Explain? (No! No! No!)" "My Heart Cries for You" "You're Just in Love" "Sweet Violets" "Delicado" "Changing Partners" "Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)" "Love and Marriage" "I Could Have Danced All Night" "The Cattle Call" "Fascination"
Related articles	The Dinah Shore Show The Dinah Shore Chevy Show Dinah! George Montgomery (husband) Chevron Championship

v t e The Bachelors
Studio albums	The Bachelors and 16 Great Songs
Songs	"(I'll Be with You) In Apple Blossom Time" "Charmaine" "Far Away Places" "Diane" "I Believe" "Ramona" "I Wouldn't Trade You for the World" "No Arms Can Ever Hold You" "In the Chapel in the Moonlight" "Hello, Dolly!" "The Sound of Silence" "The Unicorn" "I'll Walk with God" "Turn Around, Look at Me" "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" "With These Hands"