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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
Cecil Gant (April 4, 1913 [nb 1] – February 4, 1951) [1] was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, whose recordings of both ballads and "fiery piano rockers" [2] were successful in the mid- and late 1940s, and influenced the early development of rock and roll.
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
Stevie Wonder recorded this song in 1967, but it remained unreleased for a decade, so no less a performer than the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was the first to release it, doing so in 1973. ...
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
This is a partial list of songs that originated in movies that charted (Top 40) in either the United States or the United Kingdom, though frequently the version that charted is not the one found in the film. Songs are all sourced from, [1] [2] and,. [3] For information concerning music from James Bond films see