I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby

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I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby"

is a jazz standard that was introduced as part of the Broadway production of "Blackbirds of 1928". The song was written for Adelaide Hall & she sang it in the Broadway revue. She recorded the song in 1938 with Fats Waller in London at Abbey Road Studio (!)

Notable recordings include:

• Gene Austin in 1928
• Louis Armstrong in 1929
• Ethel Waters & Duke Ellington in 1932
• Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys in 1935
• Billie Holiday in 1936
• Anita O'Day recorded it on the radio with Nat King Cole during 1941-44
• Bing Crosby in  his 1954 album "Some Fine Old Chestnuts"
• Ella Fitzgerald recorded live on her 1957 album "Ella at Zardi's". She was also recorded live singing it in Brussels the same year.
• Diana Krall on her 1999 album "When I Look In Your Eyes

List of covers: https://secondhandsongs.com/work/11006/versions