Blog 3791 – 04.09.2026
Till There Was You
Before the Beatles began recording songs that they wrote them themselves, they sang cover songs written and recorded by others. One of my favorites of those early Beatle songs that came out in 1963 was a hit song in the year before in the musical The Music Man, sung by the lovely Shirley Jones, Till There Was You.
The song was first recorded as “Till I Met you” by Eileen Wilson on October 25. 1959 just shortly before I was born on November 22, 1950. It was also performed by Fran Warren for The Big Show, a popular NBC Radio program in the 1950’s, on January 14, 1951.
The first verse of the song goes:
“There were bells on a hill
But I never heard them ringing
I never heard them at all
‘Til there was you.”
The song goes on to say that there were birds winging, there was music and wonderful roses in sweet fragrant meadows of dawn and dew, there was love all around, but I never heard it singing till there was you.
Do you recall the person who first turn the lights on for you, the one who first turn you on to all the wonders of life and love? They say you never forget your first love.
This morning before daybreak I awoke as I often do to the sound of birds singing and I had to confess with the author of Till There Was You, Meredith Wilson, that I never here them singing ‘til there was you.
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David James White
Till There Was You (Remastered 2009)
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