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((Short description|Song from the 1950 musical Guys and Dolls))
((More citations needed|date=April 2007))
"'''If I Were a Bell'''" is a song composed by [[Frank Loesser]] for his 1950 musical ''[[Guys and Dolls (musical)|Guys and Dolls]]''.<ref>((cite book | last=Dietz | first=Dan | date=July 2, 2014 | publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] | page=39 | title=The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Zz_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 | access-date=July 27, 2021 | isbn=978-1442235052))</ref>

==Guys and Dolls==
In the show ''[[Guys and Dolls (musical)|Guys and Dolls]]'', it is sung by the character Sister Sarah, originally performed by [[Isabel Bigley]] on Broadway, and memorialized on the original cast album.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Robert-Alda-Vivian-Blaine-Sam-Levene-Guys-Dolls-A-Musical-Fable-Of-Broadway/release/3004580|title=Robert Alda, Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene – Guys & Dolls: A Musical Fable Of Broadway (1950, Vinyl)|access-date=4 May 2021|website=Discogs.com|date=3 December 1950 ))</ref> On a bet, Sky Masterson takes Sarah Brown to Havana to have dinner and gets her drunk. Sarah's stiff social barriers fall away and she realizes she is in love with Sky, and he with her. She sings this after they have an eventful dinner, but Sky refuses to take advantage of her drunkenness.  It was also recorded by [[Lizbeth Webb]] who created the part in the original London production in 1953 at the [[London Coliseum]].((citation needed|date=September 2014))

==Miles Davis==
It has become a [[jazz standard]] after it was featured by [[trumpeter]] [[Miles Davis]], on the 1958 [[Prestige Records|Prestige]] album ''[[Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet]]''. The Miles Davis Quintet featured [[tenor saxophone]] player [[John Coltrane]], pianist [[Red Garland]], bassist [[Paul Chambers]], and drummer [[Philly Joe Jones]]. The song became a Miles Davis specialty and it appears on several live session recordings and compilations in different versions. The tune was taken up and performed by countless jazz musicians and is still a favorite in [[jam session]]s.((citation needed|date=May 2021)) 

===''The Cosby Show''===
The Miles Davis version was also used in the final scene of the final episode of ''[[The Cosby Show]]'', when Cliff has rigged the doorbell outside to play the opening notes of the song. Then he and Claire dance off the set to it, breaking the [[fourth wall]].

==Covers==
*[[Petula Clark]] recorded a version for her 1966 ''[[My Love (Petula Clark album)|My Love]]'' album.
*[[Holly Cole]] recorded it on her debut album ''[[Blame It on My Youth (album)|Blame it on my Youth]]'' (1991).
*[[Bing Crosby]] recorded the song with ''[[The Andrews Sisters|Patty Andrews]]'' on September 7, 1950<ref>((cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1bDecca.html|website=Bingmagazine.co.uk|access-date=July 22, 2017))</ref>  and it appeared on the album ''[[Bing Crosby Sings the Song Hits from...]]''
*[[Doris Day]] had a top-20 hit with her version recorded on September 28, 1950.
*[[Blossom Dearie]] did a version of this song on ''[[Once Upon a Summertime (album)|Once Upon a Summertime]]'', with one of the classic Oscar Peterson rhythm sections of [[Ed Thigpen]] and [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] along with [[Mundell Lowe]] on guitar.
*[[Ella Fitzgerald]] recorded it for ''[[Ella Swings Lightly]]'' (1958).
*[[Red Garland]] recorded a version of this tune outside of [[Miles Davis]]' quintet for his album, ''[[Red Garland's Piano]]'' (1957).
*[[Joni James]] recorded this song for her album, ''Sings Songs of Victor Young and Frank Loesser'' (1956).<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Joni-James-Joni-Sings-Songs-By-Victor-Young-And-Songs-By-Frank-Loesser/master/1072103|title=Joni James - Joni Sings Songs By Victor Young And Songs By Frank Loesser|website=Discogs.com|access-date=4 May 2021))</ref>
*[[Stacey Kent]] covered it on her ''[[The Lyric (album)|The Lyric]]'' album.
*Chelsea Krombach sings it on her debut album, ''Profile'' (2004).<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/profile-mw0001981810|title=Profile - Chelsea Krombach &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|access-date=4 May 2021|website=[[AllMusic]]))</ref>
*[[Amel Larrieux]] covered this song on her May 2007 [[jazz standard]]s album, ''[[Lovely Standards]]''.
*In 2002, guitarist [[Chuck Loeb]] covered the song from his album, ''My Shining Hour.''<ref>((cite web|url=((Allmusic|class=album|id=r987566|pure_url=yes))|title=My Shining Hour overview|work=[[AllMusic]]))</ref>
*[[Seth MacFarlane]] recorded a version for his 2022 ''Blue Skies'' album.
*[[Carmen McRae]] - ''[[Recorded Live at Bubba's]]'' (1981)
*[[Dinah Shore]] covered the tune on the 1963 [[Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre]] album of ''Guys and Dolls''
*[[Sarah Vaughan]] sang the song as a duet with [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]], backed by the [[Count Basie]] Orchestra, on ''[[Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan]]''.
*[[Dinah Washington]] covered the song for her album ''[[In the Land of Hi-Fi (Dinah Washington album)|In the Land of Hi-Fi]]'' (1956).

A different song with the same title was recorded in 1990 by R&B singer [[Teena Marie]].

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