Ted Shapiro

If "If I Had You" was a song about a hit record, then songwriter Ted Shapiro could proudly file away the "if" part of the title as an irrelevancy. Co-written with Jimmy Campbell and Reginald Connelly, the song has become a jazz and vocal music standard, with dozens of recorded versions by artists ranging from Frank Sinatra to Django Reinhardt to Faron Young. Sometimes simply using his surname as a ...more