"I Hadn't Anyone Till You" is a popular song written by Ray Noble in 1938.Jazzstandards.com 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.Wilder, Alec. "American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972)
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. 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 the Soundtrack of "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.
Popular culture Hadda Brooks - performs the song in the motion picture, In a Lonely Place (1950).
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