"If I Could Tell You" is a popular American song composed in 1940 by Idabelle Firestone to words by Madeleine Marshall.
An accomplished songwriter, she composed "If I Could Tell You" as the opening theme for the radio, and later television, music program The Voice of Firestone.
An earlier song by Idabelle Firestone, "In My Garden", was used as the program's closing theme.
[2] "In My Garden" had been the program's opening theme until a composers' dispute in 1940 caused it to be temporarily banned from use by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
It is most identified with the singers Richard Crooks and Eleanor Steber, who served as frequent hosts on the Firestone program in the 1940s and 1950s, respectively.