TILL I MET YOU
Created on 02/04/2001Latest update on 09/01/2023
Artist: Meredith Wilson
Author: Meredith Willson
Label: Decca
Year: 1950
Vocal: Eileen Wilson. Original title of Till There Was You, same melody.
Covers:
- 1957:
Sue Raney [as Till Thefre Was You for Capitol, with the Nelson Riddle orchestra a couple of weeks prior to The Music Man's Broadway run (see second cover)]
- 1957:
Robert Preston & Barbara Cook [idem, as the door-to-door salesman and the librarian in the Meredith Willson musical The Music Man, one of the most American of all Broadway musicals; see also: Seventy-Six Trombones]
- 1958:
Sonny Rollins [idem]
- 1958:
Jimmy Giuffre [idem]
- 1959:
Anita Bryant [idem; top 30 US;]
- 1960:
- 1961:
- 1961:
- 1961:
- 1962:
- 1963:
Beatles [and also during their Decca audition in '62; using the Peggy Lee arrangement]
- 1963:
- 1964:
- 1966:
- 1974:
- 1994:
- 2000:
- 2003:
- 2007:
- 2008:
Cassandra Wilson [all as Till There Was You]
Peggy Lee popularised Till There Was You but the Beatles knew it from Anita Bryant, an ex Miss Oklahoma with a record deal (see: Paper Roses). Of course the young Beatles were lured by her sex appeal in the first place. Meanwhile Paul McCartney holds the rights to this song.
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