I Hadn't Anyone Till You
"I Hadn't Anyone Till You" is a popular song written by Ray Noble in 1938.[1]
Tony Martin sang it with the Ray Noble band in 1938, reaching number four in the charts over a period of twelve weeks.
Hadda Brooks sang it in the 1950 film In A Lonely Place, in a scene where Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame attempt to listen to her.[2]
Alec Wilder wrote of the song, "It is a smooth, direct, slightly rhythmic ballad of no great range and unmistakably a song of its time, the late thirties. It makes a move in the second half of the B section (the design is A-B-A-C/A) into the key of A major from the parent key of F major, which adds that dash of color needed in a song of so direct and unpushy a nature. It is a song with both sophistication and a flavor of the past." [3]
Recordings
- Hadda Brooks - (1950)
- The Five Keys - (1952)
- Jeri Southern - The Southern Style (1955)
- Billie Holiday - Velvet Mood (1956)
- Mose Allison - Mose Allison Sings (1957)
- Mel Torme - Back in Town (1959)
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" (1960)
- Frank Sinatra - Sinatra and Strings (1961)
- Lena Horne - Lena on the Blue Side (1962)
- Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk (1962)
- Sarah Vaughan - Sassy Swings the Tivoli (1963)
- Julie London - For the Night People (1966)
- Dianne Reeves - The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (2001)
- Mary Ann McCall - You're Mine, You: 1939-1950 (2004)
- Carla Bley - Appearing Nightly (2008)
- Maynard Ferguson - Boy With Lots of... Brass (vocal by Irene Kral) (2008)
External links
- "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" at JazzStandards.com
References
- ↑ Jazzstandards.com
- ↑ IMDb
- ↑ Wilder, Alec. "American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972)