If Love Were All
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"If Love Were All" is a song by Noël Coward, published in 1929 and written for the operetta Bitter Sweet.[1][2] The song is considered autobiographical, and has been described as "self-deprecating" as well as "one of the loneliest pop songs ever written".[2][3][4]
Ivy St. Helier introduced the song on stage and also performed it in the 1933 film version of Bitter Sweet.
In June 2009, an Off-Broadway play of the same name about Coward's relationship with Gertrude Lawrence premiered at Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City.[5]
"If Love Were All" has been described as "self-deprecating" as well as "one of the loneliest pop songs ever written".[3][4] Rod McKuen considers the song to be among the "truly great" songs about "entertaining from the entertainment point of view".[6]
