Far Away Places – Margaret Whiting

Far Away Places
Written by: Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney

Far Away Places Lyrics

Faraway places
With strange soundin' names
Faraway over the sea
Those faraway places
With the strange soundin' names
Are callin', callin' me

Goin' to China
Or maybe Siam
I want to see for myself
Those faraway places
I've been readin' about
In a book that I took from a shelf

I start getting restless
Whenever I hear
The whistle of a train
I pray for the day
I can get underway
And look for those castles in Spain

They call me a dreamer
Well, maybe I am
But I know that I'm burnin' to see
Those faraway places
With the strange soundin' names
Callin', callin' me

Far Away Places Singers

1. Vic Damone - Glenn Osser's Orchestra October 1948 (First recording in 1947)
2. Margaret Whiting and The Crew Chiefs (Billboard hit 1949) October 1948 (First release)

3. Dinah Shore October 25, 1948 4. Perry Como 1948 5. Bing Crosby with Ken Darby Choir (Billboard hit 1949) 1949 6. Eugenie Baird with The Hi-Tonians February 18, 1949 7. The Radio Revellers March 1949 8. Oscar Rabin and His Band April 1949 9. The Four Tunes May 1956 10. The Three Suns with Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Marty Gold and Sid Ramin June 1956 11. Vera Lynn with The Roland Shaw Orchestra 1956 12. Art & Dotty Todd 1959 13. Sam Cooke April 1960 14. Tommy Sands August 1960 15. Shelby Flint 1961 16. Paula Greer February 4, 1963 17. Teresa Brewer - Arranged & Conducted by Alan Lorber January 1964 18. Ray Conniff and The Singers September 1964 19. John Gary 1964 20. The Mills Brothers 1964 21. Roy Drusky June 1965 22. Ethel Ennis 1965 23. Mrs. Mills with accompaniment directed by Geoff Love 1966 24. Joe Berluck 1970 25. Judy Page and Peter Lotis 1970 26. Big Tom and The Mainliners 1973 27. Max Bygraves, Frank Barber Orchestra and the Tony Mansell Chorus June 1977 28. Willie Nelson and Leon Russell June 1979 29. Engelbert Humperdinck 1985 30. Cynthia Crane - Bob Goldstone at the Piano 1992 31. Walker & Kays with David Crites 1994 32. Tom Andersen 1995 33. Norma Winstone June 29, 1998 34. Jay Patten & The Swing Noir Orchestra 2002 35. Don Cherry 2003 36. Johnny Cash & Roy Clark November 13, 2007 37. Julia Rich March 14, 2009 38. Petra van Nuis & Andy Brown October 15, 2009 39. Willie Nelson with Sheryl Crow October 11, 2013 40. David Clayton-Thomas 2016 41. Isabella Lundgren June 27, 2018.

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