I Hadn't Anyone Till You is a jazz and popular standard written in 1938 by Ray Noble. The first recording was Ray Noble and His Orchestra featuring Tony Martin, released in January 1938, and it peaked at number four on the charts; a Tommy Dorsey version with Jack Leonard also charted that year. The lyric célébrates finding love after a period of loneliness, and Alec Wilder described the song as a stylish late-1930s ballad with a subtle color shift into A major in the second half. Since then it has been widely recorded by artists across decades— Billie Holiday on Velvet Mood (1956), Ella Fitzgerald in 1949 and 1960, Frank Sinatra on Sinatra and Strings (1962), Dinah Shore, Judy Garland, Sarah Vaughan, Mel Tormé, Margaret Whiting and many others— cementing its status as a enduring jazz standard.
