I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby
I Can not Give You Anything but Love is a pop song by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dorothy Fields ( text ) from 1928, which evolved into the Jazz Standard. The song was known in Lew Leslie's Blackbird Revue.
Genesis
Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields had allegedly already written some songs for the Blackbird Revue, which should have 1928 premiere in January, but still lacked an outstanding song. Take a walk on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, they observed a couple that stood Co. before the windows of the jeweler Tiffany &. The young man said to his secret prayer that he would like " clunkers " as would give her issued, but currently lacked the money - ". Currently is the love of all that I can give you " Based on this design built the two song writers in a few hours, a song of love and poverty.
In recent years, evidence has been published that this story may not be true. For one, the song was in 1927 with another text used as an I Can not Give You Anything But Love, Lindy ( alluding to the aviator Charles Lindberg ) in Harry Delmar's Revels Revue. Secondly, it is suggested in the biography of Andy Razaf by Harry Singer that Fats Waller could hear the tune sold, 1926, McHugh and tribe of the text by Andy Razaf. Third, Philip Furia has similarities with the text of Fields of the song Where 's That Rainbow? pointed out by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers.
Adelaide Hall, Aida Ward and Willard McLean sang I Can not Give You Anything but Love, 1928, in the Blackbird Revue that migrated from the Cotton Club on Broadway and there 518 ideas had great success.
Features of the song
I Can not Give You Anything but Love was consistently in A flat major, simply harmonized and written in song form ABAC; each stanza included 32 cycles.
Reception
In 1928, the song was recorded several times and came four times in the American charts:
- Cliff Edwards (1928, # 1)
- Ben Selvin and His Orchestra (1928, # 2 )
- Johnny Hamp 's Kentucky Serenaders (1928, # 4 )
- Segar Ellis (1928, # 19)
In the following years several cover versions have been very successful:
- Gene Austin (1929, # 12)
- Nat Shilkret rhythm Melodists (1929, # 12)
- Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra (1936 Billie Holiday # 5)
- Rose Murphy (1948, # 13)
An early version was created in 1929 in Germany with Lud Gluskin; she was with the German text, " Is your little heart for me still free, baby?" provided.
On the way to Jazz Standard
1929 also took the title Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five on, it is by Hans -Jürgen Schaal one of the first recordings of hits of Tin Pan Alley by an African American. The interpretation in slow tempo ends with a trumpet solo " in ascending, pointed Staccatotönen to the exciting conclusion. " A second version of Armstrong's 1938 Rated Andre Hodeir as "the most beautiful solo that Armstrong has ever played. " Duke Ellington played I Can not Give you Anything But Love several times a, 1932 and 1933 with Ethel Waters, the second time. in a concert version in which Waters refers to Armstrong in which she alludes to the trumpet solo
As a result, I Can not Give You Anything But Love became a " showpiece of the singers "; Dietrich Schulz- Köhn represents out singers like Billie Holiday, Connie Boswell, Peggy Lee, Martha Tilton, Lena Horne, June Christy, Sarah Vaughan, Eartha Kitt, Una Mae Carlisle ( with Fats Waller ) and especially Ella Fitzgerald. A particularly hilarious version was developed in 1957 at the Newport Jazz Festival.
Also instrumentalists found on the title pleasure: So interpreted the song in 1952 Lester Young ( Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio), the later Art Pepper (1956 ), Don Byas, Lucky Thompson Warne Marsh or followed. The song immigrated in the repertoire of Dixieland and due to an interpretation of Django Reinhardt in the Gypsy Swing.