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Frank Sinatra
If I Loved You
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The guy who built all those layered ELO records went digging in the Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook, and Sinatra had this one on record back in 1945. Play them back to back and hear how far a good melody travels.
Liner notes
First pulled by @ga-2767 · No. 0033, Oct 16, 2026.
Written by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II.
Recorded earlier by Frank Sinatra in 1945.
Also recorded by Dinah Washington (1951), Elvis Presley (1997), Shirley Jones & Gordon MacRae (1956), P.J. Proby (1973).
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Jeff Lynne, the ELO and Traveling Wilburys man, recorded "If I Loved You." Who wrote it alongside Oscar Hammerstein II?Richard Rodgers
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