IT HAD TO BE YOU

Created on 10/12/2002
Latest update on 14/08/2024

Artist: Ambassadors
Author: Gus Kahn/Isham Jones
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1924

Isham Jones wrote it on his 35th birthday, along with I'll See You In My Dreams, on the baby grand piano he'd just received from his wife.

Covers:

1924:

Sam Lanin Orch.

1924:

Marion Harris

1924:

Paul Whiteman

1924:

Cliff Edwards

1924:

California Ramblers

1924:

Isham Jones Orch. [n°1 US]

1937:

Philippe Brun's Jam Band [with Django Reinhardt]

1938:

Artie Shaw

1939:

Priscilla Lane [in film The Roaring Twenties]

1942:

Dooley Wilson [as bar piano player Sam in film Casablanca]

1942:

King Cole Trio

1944:

Betty Hutton

1944:

Eddie Cantor [in film Show Business]

1944:

Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes

1951:

Danny Thomas [in film I'll See You In My Dreams]

1960:

Count Basie

1962:

Vic Damone

1966:

Barbra Streisand

1973:

Harry Nilsson

1982:

Waso

1989:

Don McLean

1989:

Harry Connick Jr. [in film When Harry Met Sally]

1994:

Tony Bennett

2002:

Rod Stewart [title track cd]

2016:

Bob Dylan

See also: I'll See You In My Dreams and Who's Sorry Now.

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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