I'll Be Around is a popular song written by Alec Wilder and published in 1942. It was first recorded by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra in 1942, and the first hit version came from The Mills Brothers in 1943, reaching No. 17 on the Billboard pop charts. The tune has since become a standard, recorded by many artists across decades. Wilder said the idea came to him in a Baltimore taxi - he wrote the melody in about twenty minutes from the title, with the lyrics taking longer. Genre-wise it sits in traditional pop or the pop standard category. There is no single original album for the song - it was released as a single and later appeared on numerous artists’ albums and compilations, including versions by Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore and Chet Baker.
