"I'll Be Around" is a popular song written by Alec Wilder and published in 1942.
It was first recorded by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra in 1942[1] and the first hit version was by The Mills Brothers in 1943 when it reached No.
[2] The song has become a well-known standard, recorded by many artists.
Wilder said, in an interview with music critic Jay Nordlinger,[3] that the song came to him in a taxi cab in Baltimore.
Since I was near a piano, I wrote a tune, using the title as the first phrase of the melody.