Cliff Edwards Videos : Carolyn Marsh with Ray Bloch and His Orchestra - I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

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Carolyn Marsh with Ray Bloch and His Orchestra - I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

1941 thefilmarchived.blogspot.com "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" is an American popular song and jazz standard by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics). It was introduced by Adelaide Hall at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in January 1928 in Lew Leslie's Blackbird Revue, which opened on Broadway later that year as the highly successful Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1928 (518 performances), wherein it was performed by Adelaide Hall, Aida Ward and Willard McLean. Some controversy surrounds the song's authorship. Andy Razaf biographer Harry Singer offers circumstantial evidence that suggests Fats Waller might have sold the melody to McHugh in 1926 and that the lyrics were by Andy Razaf. Alternatively, Philip Furia has pointed out that Fields' verse is almost identical to the end of the second verse of Lorenz Hart's and Richard Rodgers' song "Where's That Rainbow?" from Peggy-Ann, the 1926 musical comedy with book by Fields' brother Herbert and produced by their father Lew: My luck will vary surely, That's purely a curse. My luck has changed--it's gotten From rotten to worse. "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" was the hit of Blackbirds of 1928, was McHugh and Fields's first hit, and has been covered extensively by subsequent popular artists and jazz musicians. The song has been covered by many artists, including: * Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) in New York 1928 -- Columbia 1471-D Columbia 5068 * Thomas Anders (of Modern Talking fame) both in English and ...

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