"It Had To Be You"
Re-visited

The song "It Had To Be You" was published on May 9, 1924 and released in July of that year, making the song 98 years old today, May 9, 2022. By August of that year, it was the number one recorded song in the United States. It remained number one for four weeks and finished the year as the number four top singles recording. The song was composed by Isham Jones whose orchestra recorded it on April 24, 1924, with lyrics by Gus Kahn. Well-known artists like Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Harry Connick, Jr., Perry Como, Rod Stewart, Betty Hutton, Doris Day, Petula Clark, Dinah Shore, Julie London, The Ink Spots, The Four Lads, The Ray Conniff Singers, and many others have popular recordings of the song. It is one of the most popular songs ever recorded. It is played frequently on our FM radio station here in Prescott, AZ, KAHM at 102.1 MHz.

Click the following link to read more about It Had To Be You on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Had_to_Be_You_(song)

Click this link to hear Doris Day’s rendition of this all-time classic, compliments of YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15vce0se1AE

Here are the lyrics of the song:

It had to be you, it had to be you
I wandered around and finally found, that somebody who
Could make me be true
Could make me feel blue
And even be glad just to be sad, thinking of you

Some others I've seen
Might never be mean
Might never be cross, or try to be boss
But they wouldn't do

For nobody else gave me a thrill
With all your faults, I love you still
It had to be you, wonderful you
It had to be you

Some others I've seen
Might never be mean
Might never be cross, or try to be boss
But they wouldn't do

For nobody else gave me a thrill
With all your faults, I love you still
It had to be you, wonderful you
It had to be you

The two lines at the end of the song “For nobody else gave me a thrill. With all your faults, I love you still” have always seemed to me to be a bit out of place in a love song such as this. After all, one might ask if the song was being sung to me, "Exactly what are all these ’faults’ that I have that you refer to? Please tell me".

So, I’m suggesting the lines be changed as follows to close out the song:

For nobody else gave me a thrill
I love you now, and I always will
It had to be you, wonderful you
It had to be you

What do YOU think?

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