As you can see, I'm still hooked on I'll Be Around, one of composer Alec Wilder's best songs. He reportedly wrote the music in 10 minutes while riding in a cab in Baltimore. But the words "took much longer," he said in an interview before his death in 1980.
Recorded first by Cab Calloway, then by Eugenie Baird with Tony Pastor and after that by the Mills…
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