It Had To Be You Backing Track Jazz – Apply your improvisation skills to this famous song from the 1920s, which is very present in film and television.

“It Had To Be You” is a song composed by Isham Jones with lyrics by Gus Kahn in the early 1920s. This song is already in the public domain. It has been part of the soundtracks of great film and television hits such as Casablanca (1942), It Had to Be You (1947), Living in a Big Way (1947), Annie Hall (1977), When Harry Met Sally (1988) etc. This song has 32 measures in ABAC form.

Several artists have performed this song, including Scott Hamilton, Bucky Pizzarelli, Artie Shaw, Herb Ellis, Freddie Green, Tony Bennett, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, Houston Person, Hank Jones, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Rod Stewart, Dick Haymes, Ray Charles, Lisa Ekdahl, Julie London, Doris Day, Bob Dylan, Michael Buble, Shirley Horn, Barbra Streisand and many others.

This song can be found in the “Real Book vol.2” on page 173.

This backing track is composed of drums, bass and piano. The tempo is 120bpm.

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