Recording: If I Could Be With You

Performed by

Eva Taylor

Recording date

February 10, 1927

First release

On Audio single If I Could Be With You (1927)

Comments

Although not credited, Taylor is backed by her husband's group Clarence Williams' Blue Five on this performance.

Rating

Song info

Song

If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)

Music written by

James Johnson

Lyrics written by

Henry Creamer

First recording

If I Could Be With You by Eva Taylor (February 10, 1927)

First release

If I Could Be With You by Eva Taylor on audio single If I Could Be With You (1927)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	If I Could Be With You	Eva Taylor	1927
2	If I Could Be With You	Seger Ellis With Orchestra	1930
3	If I Could Be With You	Ruth Etting	1930
4	If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra	1930
5	If I Could Be With You	Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	1936
6	If I Could Be With You	Count Basie & His Orchestra	1939
7	If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Louis Prima's New Orleans Gang	1939
8	If I Could Be With You	Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra	1940
9	If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Nat Gonella & His New Georgians	1941
10	If I Could Be With You	Børge Roger Henrichsen og hans orkester	1942
11	If I Could Be With You	James Johnson	1944
12	If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Wingy Manone & His Orchestra With Kay Starr	1944
13	If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	The Oscar Peterson Trio	1945
14	If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Billy Daniels, featuring Benny Payne at the Piano	1951
15	If I Could Be With You One Hour To-Night	Joe Newman Octet	1955
16	If I Could Be With You	Ruby Braff Featuring Dave McKenna	1956
17	If I Could Be With You	Jerry Jerome	1956
18	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Dave Pell Octet	1956
19	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Nat "King" Cole	1956
20	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Mark Murphy with Orchestra Directed by Ralph Burns	1956
21	If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Teddi King	1956
22	If I Could Be With You	Kenny Baker [2]	1957
23	If I Could Be With You	Jackie Gleason	1957
24	If I Could Be With You	Julie London	1957
25	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Gary Crosby, Orchestra Conducted by Bud Shank	1957
26	If I Could Be With You	Charlie Shavers	1959
27	If I Could Be With You	Georgie Auld	1959
28	If I Could Be With You	Carmen McRae	1959
29	If I Could Be With You	Barbara Dane, Earl "Fatha" Hines and His Orchestra	1959
30	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	The Benny Carter Quartet!	1959
31	If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	River Boat Five	1959
32	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Della Reese	1960
33	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Keely Smith	1960
34	If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight	Teddy Wilson	1960
35	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Erskine Hawkins Quintet	1961
36	If I Could Be With You	Jackie Davis	1963
37	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Milt Buckner	1969
38	If I Could Be With You One More Hour Tonight	Kay Starr & Count Basie	1969
39	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Art Hodes	1972
40	If I Could Be With You	Peter Snake Hips Dean	1974
41	If I Could Be With You	Doc Cheatham	1975
42	If I Could Be With You	Warren Vaché, Jr. and His All-Stars	1976
43	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Ralph Sutton Quartet	1977
44	If I Could Be With You	Eiji Kitamura All Stars	1979
45	If I Could Be With You	Dave Pell's Prez Conference Featuring Joe Williams	1979
46	If I Could Be With You	Pee Wee Erwin	1981
47	One Hour Tonight	Connie Jones' Crescent City Jazz Band	1982
48	If I Could Be With You	Nancy Harrow with Sir Roland Hanna and Special Guest Bob Brookmeyer	1986
49	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Kenny Davern	1988
50	If I Could Be With You	Miyuki Koga with Hank Jones, George Mraz, Billy Hart	1991
51	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Louis Mazetier and François Rilhac	1991
52	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	The Butch Thompson Trio	1992
53	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Marcus Roberts	1993
54	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Carol Sloane	1993
55	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	A.J. Croce	1993
56	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	The Ray Skjelbred Quartet	1994
57	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Leon Redbone	1994
58	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Ralph Sutton, Yoshio Toyama	1994
59	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Tony Bennett	1996
60	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Tom Saunders' Wild Bill Davison Band & Guests	1996
61	If I Could Be With You/Old Fashioned Love	Barbara Sutton Curtis	1997
62	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Bob Willoughby	September 14, 1999
63	If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)	Grant Simpson	2004
64	If I Could Be With You	Paul Motian with Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan, Petra Haden	March 11, 2011