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Dinah Washington ft Quincy Jones & Orchestra - If I Loved You (Mercury Records 1961)

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Channel: RoundMidnightTV · 2014 · Film & Animation

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"If I Loved You" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. The song was introduced by John Raitt as "Billy Bigelow" and Jan Clayton as "Julie". It was performed in the 1956 Carousel (film) version by Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. In the show, the characters of Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan sing this song as they hesitantly declare their love for one another, yet are too shy to express their true feelings. The song was in turn inspired by lines of dialogue from Ferenc Molnár's original Liliom, the source material for the musical.

Dinah's accompanied by Joe Newman (trumpet); Billy Byers (trombone); Jack Wilson (piano); and Quincy Jones (arranger, conductor).
Recorded in Chicago, IL, December 4, 1961 (Mercury Records)

If I loved you
Time and again
I would try to say
All I'd want you to know

If I loved you
Words wouldn't come
In an easy way
'Round in circles I'd go

Longing to tell you
But afraid and shy
I'd let my golden chances
Pass me by

And soon you'd leave me,
Off you would go
In the mist of day,
Never ever to know
How I loved you
If I loved you

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