You Don't Know What Love Is

You Do not Know What Love Is is a pop song, the Gene De Paul (music) and Don Raye ( text ) written in 1941 and published in MCA Music. It developed in the 1950s jazz standard.

Features of the song

The ballad dedicated to the classic theme lovesickness. "Of the sleepless eyes of / Forsaken is the speech and of aching lips that taste of tears, and so find no more taste for kissing. " The melody of the comprehensive 32 bars stanzas in the song form A1 -A2 -B -A2 written. " The simple, mainly moving in secondary and Terzschritten melody is melancholy. ", The chord progressions are simple. " The message of the text - you do not know what love is until you have learned the importance of the Blues - meet in the music initially no blues elements. "

Genesis of the song

How I'll Remember April (1942 ) was You Do not Know What Love Is written by the songwriting team Gene De Paul and Don Raye for films of Abbott and Costello; the actress Carol Bruce sang the song in 1941 in the Universal film Keep ' Em Flying, in which also had Dick Foran and Martha Raye lead roles. You Do not Know What Love Is, however, was removed prior to the release of Keep 'Em Flying from the film; Carol Bruce sang it in 1942 in the movie Behind the Eight ball

Reception of the song

The song was indeed granted no success in the U.S. charts, but he has occasionally been recorded in the 1940s of big bands and their singers ( including through Ella Fitzgerald, Harry James, Billy Eckstine / Earl Hines, Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong ). However, " until 1954, the piece had played virtually no role in jazz. " That changed by Miles Davis, who recorded the song in 1954 with his quartet ( Walkin ' ). Now, the ballad became a jazz standard. The disco Count Tom Lord lists more than 1,000 versions of the song in the field of jazz. Took him on, inter alia, Jimmy Raney, Chet Baker, Thad Jones, Hank Jones. Sonny Rollins on his interpretation Prestige album Saxophone Colossus (1956 ) is considered classical, as well as the by Dinah Washington ( in an arrangement by Quincy Jones 1955) and Billie Holiday on her penultimate album Lady in Satin (1958). John Coltrane's version on his album Ballads " is a lyrical gem, designed with a fascinating rubato. "

Created cover versions of songs by Cassandra Wilson ( Blue Light ' til Dawn, 1993), Charlie Haden / Kenny Barron on Night and the City (1996 ), Jay Clayton / Fred Hersch ( Beautiful Love, 1995) and Chucho Valdes In later years ( New Conceptions, 2003).