I Hadn't Anyone Till You
I Hadn't Anyone Till You" is a popular song written by Ray Noble in 1938. It has been recorded by many artists and is regarded as a standard.
Tony Martin sang it with the Ray Noble band in 1938, reaching number four in the charts over a period of twelve weeks. A Tommy Dorsey version (with a vocal by Jack Leonard) the same year reached number ten.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.

Other recordings
Billie Holiday - for the album Velvet Mood (1956)
Bobby Darin - included in his album It's You or No One (1963)
Brenda Lee - for her album All Alone Am I (1963)
Carla Bley - for her album Appearing Nightly (2008)
Caterina Valente - for the album Strictly U.S.A. (1963).
Connee Boswell - recorded June 15, 1938.
Hadda Brooks - performs the song in the motion picture, In a Lonely Place (1950).
Dinah Shore - for her album Somebody Loves Me (1959).
Doris Day - included in her album Day by Day (1957).
Ella Fitzgerald - a single release (1949) and for the album Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" (1960)
Frank Sinatra - for his album Sinatra and Strings (1962)
Jeri Southern - for the album The Southern Style (1955).
Joni James - The Mood Is Romance (1961).
Judy Garland - for her album Judy in Love (1958)
Julie London - For the Night People (1966)
Lena Horne - Lena on the Blue Side (1962)
Margaret Whiting - for her album Margaret Whiting Sings for the Starry-Eyed (1956).
Mel Torme - a single release in 1950.
Patti Page - So Many Memories  (1954).
Sarah Vaughan - Snowbound (1962)
Steve Lawrence - Swing Softly with Me  (1959).
Vic Damone - a single release in 1950.


== References ==