"If I Could Be with You": Song history, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video
"If I Could Be with You"
Click here to read the lyrics, including the verseto "If I Could Be With You" as sung by Frank Sinatra on a radio broadcast (on the album Radio Days, Vol. 2)
Helen Humes on the Main Stage above includes the verse in her rendition.
Research Resources: James P. Johnson
- Amazon (publications by and about, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
- DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
- Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
- Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
- The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
- NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
- Wikipedia (James P. Johnson article)
- ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Cattell/Bowker, Fourth edition, 1980 (dates, collaborators, shows/movies, songs, etc., entry p. 252).
- David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New York: Routledge, 2003 (entry, pp. 224).
- David A. Jasen and Gene Jones, Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930, New York: Schirmer Books, 1998 (paperback edition, Routledge, 2005) -- multiple references to Johnson.
- Helen Humes and Count Basie: telescriptions
Notes
- The complete, authoritative lyrics for "If I Could Be with You'" can be found in:
Questions
What is If I Could Be with You?
Click here to read the lyrics, including the verse to "If I Could Be With You" as sung by Frank Sinatra on a radio broadcast (on the album Radio Days, Vol. 2) Helen Humes on the Main Stage above includes the verse in her rendition.
How should If I Could Be with You be cited?
Cite this page as ""If I Could Be with You": Song history, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video," Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/if_i_could_be_with_you_m.html
Which Cafe Songbook pages are related?
Also read Cafe Songbook Glossary of Terms (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/misc_pages/glossary.html); "If I Had You" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/if_i_had_you.html); "If I Should Lose You" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/if_I_should-lose-you.html); "If I Loved You" (https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/if_i_loved_you.html).
Cite this page: "If I Could Be with You": Song history, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video, Cafe Songbook, https://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/i/if_i_could_be_with_you_m.html