Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1202157 By The Mills Brothers. By Alec Wilder. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Jazz,Standards. Score. 2 pages. John Fries #800814. Published by John Fries (A0.1202157). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns.  You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer. Thanks, John.  I'll Be Around is a popular song written by Alec Wilder and published in 1942. The first hit version was by The Mills Brothers in 1943 when the song reached No. 17 in the Billboard pop charts. The song has become a well-known standard, recorded by many artists. Wilder said, in an interview with Jay Nordlinger, that the song came to him in a taxi cab in Baltimore. Just the title. I spotted [the title] as I was crumpling up the envelope some days later. Since I was near a piano, I wrote a tune, using the title as the first phrase of the melody. I remember it only took about 20 minutes. The lyric took much longer to write..