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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]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... "I Wonder" (1944 song), a song by Pvt. Cecil Gant; covered by Roosevelt Sykes (1945) and several others
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.
This is a list of number-one songs in the United States during the year 1944 according to The Billboard. Prior to the creation of the Billboard Hot 100, The Billboard published multiple singles charts each week. In 1944, the following two all-genre national singles charts were published:
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
It was the first number one for Williams but would prove to be the final charting song of his career. [6] The following week, Pvt. Cecil Gant topped the first Most Played Juke Box Race Records listing with "I Wonder". Gant spent two weeks at number one before being displaced by Roosevelt Sykes with his recording of the same song. Both versions ...
"I Wonder" is a song written by Leroy Preston, and recorded by American country music artist Rosanne Cash. It was released in October 1982 as the second single from the album Somewhere in the Stars. The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]
1944: Marjorie Goetschius, Edna Osser: I Fall in Love Too Easily: 1944: Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne: I Fall in Love With You Ev’ryday: 1946: Sam H. Stept: I Get a Kick Out of You: 1953, 1962: Cole Porter: I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) 1955: Hoagy Carmichael: I Give You My Word: 1941 (radio) Al Kavelin, Lyn I Got a Gal I Love ...