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It Had to Be You (song)

"It Had to Be You" is a popular song composed by Isham Jones, with lyrics by Gus Kahn.[5] It was published on May 9, 1924 (1924-05-09) by Jerome H. Remick & Co. of New York. The Isham Jones Orchestra recorded an instrumental version of it on April 24, 1924 (1924-04-24) at Brunswick Studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York City,[4] and it was released in July.[6]

"It Had to Be You"

"After the Storm"

May 9, 1924 (1924-05-09) by Jerome H. Remick & Co.[1]

July 1924 (1924-07)[2]

April 24, 1924 (1924-04-24)[3]

Brunswick Studios, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York City[4]

American Dance Music

Brunswick 2614

Isham Jones

Gus Kahn

A version with lyrics by Gus Kahn, and vocal by Marion Harris (who had signed with Brunswick in 1922) and Phil Ohman on piano was recorded for Brunswick in March 1924.[7][8]

By in the 1936 short film Melody in May

Ruth Etting

By and Harry Seymour with Seymour on piano in the 1938 film A Slight Case of Murder

Edward G. Robinson

By in the 1939 film The Roaring Twenties

Priscilla Lane

In the 1940 cartoon, Cross Country Detours, to which a lizard performs a striptease to the song to shed her skin

Merrie Melodies

By in the 1942 film Casablanca

Dooley Wilson

performs a striptease to the song in the 1943 Looney Tunes cartoon The Wise Quacking Duck

Daffy Duck

By and Helen Forrest, featured in the R.K.O. Picture Show Business with Victor Young Orchestra

Dick Haymes

In the 1944 film , by Danny Thomas

Mr. Skeffington

By George Murphy in (1944)

Show Business

in the 1945 film Incendiary Blonde

Betty Hutton

in the 1945 film Danger Signal

Faye Emerson

A parody of sings the song in the 1946 Looney Tunes cartoon Book Revue

Frank Sinatra

By and Cornel Wilde in the 1947 film It Had to Be You

Ginger Rogers

and Marie McDonald danced to it in the 1947 film Living in a Big Way (while it was being sung by a mixed group)

Gene Kelly

In the 1951 film (based loosely upon the lives of Gus Kahn and his wife Grace LeBoy Kahn)

I'll See You in My Dreams

sang a portion of it in 1955's Hell on Frisco Bay.

Joanne Dru

on The Genius of Ray Charles (1959).

Ray Charles

as Ginger Grant, sang it to Gilligan in the second season Gilligan's Island episode, "Forward March" (1966).

Tina Louise

in the 1977 film Annie Hall

Diane Keaton

Sung by (and Danny Devito) in the 1982 episode of the TV series Taxi, "Louie's Revenge"

Andrea Marcovicci

and Amy Irving dance to the song in Crossing Delancey (1988).

Peter Riegert

Featured in season 4 episode 7 of , "Sophia's Wedding (Part 2) (1988)

The Golden Girls

As the "theme" of (1989), it finished as #60 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

When Harry Met Sally

In the 1992 film by Megan Cavanagh

A League of Their Own

In the episode "The Empty Child", which aired in 2005

Doctor Who

By and Helena Bonham Carter in the first episode of The Cleaner, "The Widow" (2021)

Greg Davies

In the 2024 film , it was performed in the opening sequence by Danielle Nicole, Spencer Hutchings and Davey Nate, and reprised by Spencer Hutchings, Britne Oldford, Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff.

Which Brings Me To You

Who Wrote that Song? and Harriet Jacobs, published by Writer's Digest Books, 1993

Dick Jacobs