Recording: If I Were a Bell

Performed by

Petula Clark

First release

On Audio album My Love (1966)

Rating

Song info

Song

If I Were a Bell

Written by

Frank Loesser

First performance

If I Were a Bell by Isabel Bigley in stage production Guys & Dolls (November 24, 1950)

First recording

If I Were a Bell by Isabel Bigley (December 3, 1950)

First release

If I Were a Bell by Isabel Bigley on audio album Guys and Dolls - A Musical Fable of Broadway (January 8, 1951)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	If I Were a Bell	Isabel Bigley	November 24, 1950 (performance date)
2	If I Were a Bell	Isabel Bigley	January 8, 1951
3	If I Were a Bell	Jean Simmons	November 30, 1955
4	If I Were a Bell	The Gellers	1955
5	If I Were a Bell	Miles Davis Quintet	1957
6	If I Were a Bell	Blossom Dearie	1958
7	If I Were a Bell	Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis	1958
8	If I Were a Bell	Carmen McRae With Orchestra Directed by Fred Katz	1958
9	If I Were a Bell	Lem Winchester	1959
10	If I Were a Bell	Ella Fitzgerald	1959
11	A Bushel and a Peck/If I Were a Bell	Jane Morgan	1961
12	If I Were a Bell	Shirley Bassey	1961
13	If I Were a Bell	Petula Clark	1966
14	If I Were a Bell	Tal Farlow, Tommy Flanagan, Gary Mazzaroppi	1981
15	If I Were a Bell	Red Garland	1982
16	If I Were a Bell	Dick Berk and the Jazz Adoption Agency	1984
17	If I Were a Bell	Scott Robinson [1]	1984
18	If I Were a Bell	Bobby Hutcherson	1984
19	If I Were a Bell	Hilton Ruiz	1985
20	If I Were a Bell	Woody Shaw	1987
21	If I Were a Bell	Holly Cole Trio	1991
22	If I Were a Bell	Jerry Bergonzi	1991
23	If I Were a Bell	Liz Callaway	1993
24	If I Were a Bell	The Candid Jazz Masters	1995
25	If I Were a Bell	Jessica Williams, Leroy Vinnegar with Mel Brown	1995
26	If I Were a Bell	Julie Budd	September 9, 1997
27	If I Were a Bell	Orrin Evans	1997
28	If I Were a Bell	Tierney Sutton	January 13, 1998
29	If I Were a Bell	Annette Sanders	1998
30	If I Were a Bell	Rebecca Kilgore and John Miller [1]	1998
31	If I Were a Bell	Carol Welsman	1999
32	If I Were a Bell	Phillip Manuel	2000
33	If I Were a Bell	Ronnie Bedford's Triplicity	2000
34	If I Were a Bell	Harry Connick Jr.	October 2001
35	If I Were a Bell	Joe Massters, Chris Clark [1]	2001
36	If I Were a Bell	Genie Grant	2001
37	If I Were a Bell	Mathilde Santing	2001
38	If I Were a Bell	David Acker	2002
39	If I Were a Bell	Lisa Lindo	2002
40	If I Were a Bell	Mark Murphy	August 26, 2003
41	If I Were a Bell	Jenna Mammina & Andre Bush	2003
42	If I Were a Bell	Linda Kosut	2003
43	If I Were a Bell	Andrea Marcovicci	2004
44	If I Were a Bell	Rondi Charleston	2004
45	If I Were a Bell	Daisy Chute	2005
46	If I Were a Bell	Amel Larrieux	May 22, 2007
47	If I Were a Bell	The Harry Allen–Joe Cohn Quartet with Rebecca Kilgore	July 10, 2007
48	If I Were a Bell	Linda Davis	2007
49	If I Were a Bell	Molly Johnson	2008
50	If I Were a Bell	Arlene Bardelle	February 2012