If I Could Tell You (song)

Not to be confused with the album by Yanni, If I Could Tell You (2000).

"If I Could Tell You" is a popular American song composed in 1940 by Idabelle Firestone to words by Madeleine Marshall.[1]

Background

Idabelle Firestone was the wife of the industrialist Harvey Firestone. An accomplished songwriter, she composed "If I Could Tell You" as the opening theme for the radio, and later television, music program The Voice of Firestone. The show was sponsored by her husband's company, Firestone Tires. An earlier song by Idabelle Firestone, "In My Garden", was used as the program's closing theme.[2]

"If I Could Tell You" became very popular and was recorded many times. It is most identified with the singers Richard Crooks and Eleanor Steber who served as frequent hosts on the Firestone program in the 1940s and 1950s, respectively.

References

  1. ↑ "If I Could Tell You". recmusic.org. Retrieved June 21, 2010.
  2. ↑ "The Voice of Firestone (music)". classicthemes.com. Retrieved June 21, 2010.

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