It's Been A Long, Long Time - Harry James Orchestra - Kitty Kallen 🎙

The iconic song is from the 1940s big band era. Released in 1945, it was written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. The song quickly became a hit, especially during a time when soldiers were returning home from WW2 and reuniting with loved ones.

Trumpeter and band leader Harry James was married to glamorous actress Betty Grable in the 1940s. - Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947, but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983.
He was especially known among musicians for his technical proficiency as well as his tone, and was influential on new trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s. He was also an actor in a number of films that usually featured his band. Harry James was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of Everett Robert James, a bandleader in a traveling circus, the Mighty Haag Circus, and Myrtle Maybelle (Stewart), an acrobat and horseback rider. He started performing with the circus at an early age, first as a contortionist at the age of four, then playing the snare drum in the band from about the age of six...
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