I Hadn't Anyone Till You (song)

"I Hadn't Anyone Till You" is a popular song written by Ray Noble in 1938.

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.

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."

Recordings

 * Hadda Brooks - (1950)
 * 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)
 * Maynard Ferguson - Boy With Lots of... Brass (vocal by Irene Kral) (2008)