Once Was

Words and Music by :  Kennedy - Will Lorin

Recording #1 by Harry Belafonte
Recording date: July 21, 1956, (12:30-16:30)
Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood.
Master number: G2PB 4907
Playing time: 4:45
Producer: Henri Rene & Dennis Farnon
Will Lorin: leader; Antonio Villa: contractor/b. clarinet; Millard Thomas: guitar; Franz Casseus: guitar; Mike Rubin: bass; Arnold Manchester: librarian percussion; Louis Singer: percussion; Hal S. Hidey: piano; Marjorie Call: harp; Attilo DePalma: french horn; Jack DuMont: saxophone; Alex Gershunoff: saxophone; Jules Jacob: saxophone; Wilbur Schwartz: saxophone; Howard P. Terry: saxophone; Francis L. Howard: trombone; Simon Zentner: trombone; Pete Candoli: trumpet; Harry E. Edison: trumpet; Conrad J. Gozzo: trumpet; Ennio Bolognini: cello; Joseph Reilich: viola; Victor Arno: violin; Israel Baker: violin; Jerome G. Kasin: violin; Robert S. Levine: violin; Gustave Rosseels: violin; Myron K. Sandler: violin

LP : LPM1402, PL43683
CD: PDC2-1060, BCD16262, 07863-67403-2, RGMCD006


Recording #2 by Harry Belafonte  (single release only)
Recording date: July 21, 1956, (12:30-16:30)
Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood.
Master number: G2PB 4908-3
Playing time: 2:56
Producer and musicians same as above.

78 : 20-6663  master number G2PB-0553 for New Zeeland version !
45 : 47-6663, 10215,
CD: BCD16262,


Lyrics:

Once was a woman
Once was a dream
Once lived in heaven it seemed

Wondering oh wondering I lost it
Gone is the feeling I had
Gone is the woman and gone is the dream
Gone is the heaven that seemed

Gone is the other
Gone is the touch
Gone is the rapture of all
Wondering o wondering I lost it
All that once burned is now cold
Gone are the ones who deserved it
Gone is the story once told

Gone is the feeling
Gone is the time
Time of a rapture sublime
Wondering o wondering I lost it
How to recapture the time
Gone is the love and the place now
Gone are the things I believed
Gone is the love and the place now
Gone are the things I believed