Until the Real Thing Comes Along

"(It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along" is a popular song first published in 1936.

According to one version of the original sheet music, the songwriting credits read: "Words and Music by Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin and L.E. Freeman".

Another version has, immediately below the title, the words: "with Piano Accordion". According to this version, the songwriting credits read: Words and Music by Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin and L.E. Freeman.

Otherwise, graphically, the two versions are identical.

ASCAP lists all five as co-writers.^{[citation needed]}

Notable recordings

• Fats Waller (1936)
• Billie Holiday (1942) Columbia Record 78rpm; re-issued on the Columbia release "Lady Day: the Best of Billie Holiday" (2001)
• Dexter Gordon - on his album A Swingin' Affair (1962).
• Aretha Franklin for her album "Laughing on the Outside" (1962).
• Sandy Denny - Like an Old Fashioned Waltz (1974)
• Ella Fitzgerald and Ellis Larkins on the MCA release "Ella & Ellis", where the song is credited to M. Holiner, A. Nichols, S. Cahn, S. Chaplin and L.E. Freeman on Chappell Music, Ltd.

• Frank Sinatra - L.A. Is My Lady (1984)
• Coleman Hawkins - material together from sessions dating between 1958 and 1962 in the "In a Mellow Tone" (1988).
• Carmen McRae - Torchy/Blue Moon (1999)
• June Christy - Something Cool (2001)
• Rod Stewart - The Great American Songbook Vol. II (2003)