"I Hadn’t Anyone Till You"

August 24th, 2009 by #2 in Art, Chicago, Community, Illinois, Jazz, Jim Cox, Live Music, live music photos, live music videos, Music, Phil Gratteau

"I Hadn’t Anyone Till You" Don Stiernberg, Jim Cox, Curt Morrison and Phil Gratteau.

The song was written by Ray Noble in 1938 and done in this video by Don Stiernberg on mandolin and vocals. Joining Don are Curt Morrison on guitar, Jim Cox on upright bass and Phil Gratteau on drums. This was one hell of a fun afternoon on Towner Green in Long Grove, IL, FREE JAZZ from 4-6pm!

About the 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."