"I'll Be Seeing You" by Jo Stafford & Paul Weston and his Orchestra.

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A track from the Reader's Digest boxed album, "Popular Music Hit Parade" issued in 1968.
It consisted of a compilation of popular music over the years performed by a selection of orchestras and vocalists.
Here in Australia, this collection consisted of ten LP records containing a total of 122 songs whereas in many other counries it was made up of nine records and 110 songs.

"I'll Be Seeing You" is a popular song about missing a loved one, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal.
Published in 1938, it was inserted into the Broadway musical Right This Way, which closed after fifteen performances.
The title of the 1944 film I'll Be Seeing You was taken from this song at the suggestion of the film's producer, Dore Schary. The song is included in the film's soundtrack.
A resemblance between the main tune's first four lines and a passage within the theme of the last movement of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony (1896) was pointed out by Deryck Cooke in 1970.
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Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s.
Born: 12 November 1917, Coalinga, California, United States.
Died: 16 July 2008 (age 90 years), Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Paul Weston was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor who worked in music and television from the 1930s to the 1970s, pioneering mood music and becoming known as "the Father of Mood Music". His compositions include popular music songs such as "I Should Care", "Day by Day", and "Shrimp Boats".
Born: 12 March 1912, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
Died: 20 September 1996 (age 84 years), Santa Monica, California, United States.

(Incidentally, Paul Weston and Jo Stafford were husband and wife.)
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Reader's Digest LP albums were of very good quality, using the "Dynagroove" technology developed by RCA-Victor in the 1960s and, if looked after, the LPs still provide excellent stereo sounds.

This track was played on a Pro-Ject turntable, recorded directly to computer using a NAD digital pre-amp and VinylStudio software then processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a vinyl LP takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish.
One side of a six-track-per-side LP therefore takes around ninety minutes to process.