If I Had You
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- For the BBC television show, see If I Had You (TV show).
"If I Had You" is a 1928 song by Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell, and Reg Connelly. The romantic love song has become a mainstream jazz standard, and continues to be performed and used in movie soundtracks into the 21st century.
Notable recordings of "If I Had You" have been made by artists including Una Mae Carlisle, Benny Carter, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Bob Crosby, Roy Eldridge, Judy Garland, Georgia Gibbs, Benny Goodman, Stéphane Grappelli, Earl Hines, Diana Krall, Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, Carmen McRae, Les Paul, Oscar Peterson, Johnnie Ray, Pee Wee Russell, Artie Shaw, George Shearing, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Merle Travis, Rudy Vallee, Dinah Washington, Margaret Whiting, and Joe Williams.