You'll Never Know

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"You'll Never Know" is a popular song. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Mack Gordon.

The song was featured in the 1943 movie Hello, Frisco, Hello where it is sung by Alice Faye. It was also performed by Faye in the 1944 film Four Jills In A Jeep. It was recorded in 1943 by, among others, Frank Sinatra and Dick Haymes. A 1952 recording by Rosemary Clooney is also well known, even a version recorded in 1954 by Big Maybelle.

The Sinatra and Haymes records were made during a strike by the American Federation of Musicians. As a result, the recordings were made without musicians, using a vocal group as backup for the singers replacing the usual instrumental backup. The group backing Haymes, The Song Spinners, was actually given credit on the records.

The song was the first song that Barbra Streisand ever recorded in 1955. It was the opening song on her 4-cd box-set "Just For The Record". The box-set closed with another version of the song, sung as a duet by Barbra Streisand in 1991 and herself as a girl of 13.

The song won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song.