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