Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)

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"Someday"
Single by Elton Britt
A-side "Weep No More, My Darlin'" [1]
PublishedDecember 29, 1944 (1944-12-29) by Main Street Songs, Inc., New York [2]
ReleasedJanuary 29, 1945 (1945-01-29) [1]
RecordedNovember 22, 1944 (1944-11-22) [3]
Genre Hillbilly
Length2:51
Label Bluebird 33-0521 [1]
Songwriter(s) Jimmie Hodges [2]
"Someday You'll Want Me to Want You [2] "
Single by Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
B-side "And It Still Goes" [4]
ReleasedAugust 1949 (1949-08)
Genre Popular music
Length3:10
Label RCA Victor 20-3510 [4]
Songwriter(s) Jimmie Hodges

"Someday You'll Want Me to Want You" is a popular song published in 1944 by Jimmie Hodges. [2] The song became a standard, recorded by many pop and country music singers.

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The song features in Series 2 Episode 6 ‘Christening’ of the British comedy The Royle Family.

Lawsuit

In April 1951, Hugh O. Starr, an inventor from Steubenville, Ohio, filed an action in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, against Jimmie Hodges and publisher Duchess Music Corporation. Starr alleged that he wrote the words and music to 'Someday' in 1944, after which the defendants "appropriated, copyrighted, published and sold" his work. He was awarded $15,000 in a settlement [5] ($176,100 in 2023 [6] ).

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