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"I Wonder" is a 1944 song written and originally performed by Pvt. Cecil Gant. The original version was released on the Bronze label, before Gant re-recorded it for the Gilt-Edge label in Los Angeles. The record made it to number one on the Juke Box Race Records chart and was Pvt. Gant's most successful release. [1]
"I Wonder" (1944 song), a song by Pvt. Cecil Gant; covered by Roosevelt Sykes (1945) and several others "I Wonder" (Kanye West song), 2007
The Gilt-Edge release of "I Wonder" sold well. It reached number one on the Billboard Harlem Hit Parade (the former name of the R&B chart), and number 20 on the national pop chart (as synthesized by Joel Whitburn); [8] and its B-side, the instrumental "Cecil Boogie", reached number 5 on the R&B chart. [9] Gant wrote most of his own songs.
I Love You (Cole Porter song) I Promise You (Bing Crosby song) I Should Care; I Will Be Home Again; I Wonder (1944 song) I'll Walk Alone; I'm Beginning to See the Light; I'm Headin' for California; I'm Lost; I'm Making Believe; I'm Wastin' My Tears on You; I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts; Inolvidable (song) Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
The Dum Dot Song (I Put a Penny in the Gum Slot) 1946: Julian Kay Early American: 1964: Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen: East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) 1940, 1961: Brooks Bowman: Ebb Tide: 1958: Robert Maxwell, Carl Sigman: Elizabeth: 1969: Bob Gaudio, Jake Holmes: Embraceable You: 1944, 1960, 1994: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
At the same time, Herring, who resembled Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, [3] began writing some original songs. In early 1965, The Gants were overheard by a U.S. tour manager and coordinator for The Animals , York Noble, while playing in the Holiday Inn ballroom in Laurel, Mississippi and were chosen to open for that band's Florida tour.
The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1944 but lost out to “Swinging on a Star”, from Going My Way. The song was published in 1944 and sold over 600,000 copies in sheet music in a year. [2] In 2004 it finished #92 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
The song is a recurring theme in the movie when referring to Millie Dillmount's Julie Andrews love life or lack thereof. The song is featured in the horror film The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), during a murder scene. In the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) the