Near You (chat & false start named (1), take named (3) on BCD 17254)

Firstly issued in 1982 on "The Sun Years" (12 LP set). Contains intro, incomplete take (1:12) and take 1 (net length 2:36).
Note from the back cover of Record 8 of "The Sun Years". Possibly another warm-up song, this is the best of three instrumental versions of "Near You" by Jerry and his crew. From the chatter between the takes it seems that Jerry contemplated recording the vocal version but no takes survive.
"Near You" was a pop song that dates back to the 1920s, although it was on the pop charts by Roger Williams just a few months before Jerry decided to attempt it. The most successful version, which Jerry would also have remembered, was made in 1947 by Nashville bandleader Francis Craig; a record which put Nashville on the musical map and later became Milton Berle's theme song.