I'll Be Around (1942 song)
1942 song
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"I'll Be Around" is a popular song written by Alec Wilder and published in 1942. It was first recorded by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra in 1942[1] and the first hit version was by The Mills Brothers in 1943 when it reached No. 17 in the Billboard pop charts. [2] The song has become a well-known standard, recorded by many artists.
Background
Wilder said, in an interview with music critic Jay Nordlinger,[3] that the song came to him in a taxi cab in Baltimore. Just the title. "I spotted [the title] as I was crumpling up the envelope some days later. Since I was near a piano, I wrote a tune, using the title as the first phrase of the melody. I remember it only took about 20 minutes. The lyric took much longer to write."
Recorded versions
- Mildred Bailey (1942)
- Tony Bennett
- Cab Calloway and his orchestra (1942)
- Rosemary Clooney (1951)
- Bobby Darin (1960)
- Doris Day (1950)
- Cleo Laine and Dudley Moore (1982)
- Peggy Lee (1962)
- Marian McPartland (1955) - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall (1991), Marian Mcpartland Plays the Music of Alec Wilder (1992)
- Helen Merrill - Merrill at Midnight (1957)
- Johnnie Ray
- Don Shirley
- Dinah Shore
- Frank Sinatra - (1943) for Columbia Records, In the Wee Small Hours (1955)
- Chet Baker
