You Don't Know What Love Is
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| "You Don't Know What Love Is" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| Written | 1941 |
| Composer(s) | Gene de Paul |
| Lyricist(s) | Don Raye |
"You Don't Know What Love Is" is a popular song of the Great American Songbook, written by Don Raye (lyrics) and Gene de Paul (music) for the Abbott and Costello picture Keep 'Em Flying (1941), in which it was sung by Carol Bruce. The number was deleted from the film prior to release. Universal later added the song into the Raye/de Paul score of one of its B musicals, the 60-minute Behind the Eight Ball (1942), starring the Ritz Brothers and re-teaming Carol Bruce and Dick Foran from "Keep 'Em Flying". "You Don't Know What Love Is" was again sung by Carol Bruce; it was her third and final film until the 1980s.[1]
After Miles Davis recorded the song in the 1950s, it became a jazz standard, with noteworthy recordings by Billie Holiday, Sonny Rollins and many others.[1]
Notable recordings
| Date | Main recording artist | Featured vocalists (or instrumental) |
Album title, notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Earl Hines and His Orchestra feat. Billy Eckstine | Billy Eckstine | |
| 1941 | Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Fitzgerald | 10" shellac single (Decca) |
| 1941 | Harry James and His Orchestra | Dick Haymes | 10" shellac single (Columbia)[2] |
| 1945 | Billy Eckstine Orchestra | Billy Eckstine | |
| 1952 | Billy Eckstine with the MGM Orchestra | Billy Eckstine | |
| 1949-54 | Teddi King | (instrumental) | In the Beginning, 1949–1954 (compilation, 2000) |
| 1954 | Miles Davis All Stars | (instrumental) | Walkin' |
| 1955 | Chet Baker (Quartet) | Chet Baker | Chet Baker Sings and Plays |
| 1955 | Dinah Washington | Dinah Washington | For Those in Love with a septet arranged by Quincy Jones |
| 1956 | J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding | (instrumental) | Jay and Kai + 6: The Jay and Kai Trombone Octet |
| 1956 | Anita O'Day | Anita O'Day | An Evening with Anita O'Day with a quartet |
| 1956 | Sonny Rollins (Quartet) | (instrumental) | Saxophone Colossus, a hard bop classic |
| 1956 | George Shearing Quintet | (instrumental) | Black Satin (Capitol) |
| 1957 | Dick Haymes with orchestra cond. by Ian Bernard | Dick Haymes | Moondreams (Capitol), The Complete Capitol Collection (2006) |
| 1957 | Specs Powell and Co. | (instrumental) | Movin In, big band arranged by Ray Copeland |
| 1958 | Billie Holiday with orch. led by Ray Ellis | Billie Holiday | Lady in Satin, arrangements by Ellis |
| 1958 | Patti Page | Patti Page | The Waltz Queen (1958 version).[3] |
| 1959 | Chris Connor | Chris Connor | Witchcraft |
| 1959 | Andy Williams | Andy Williams | Lonely Street |
| 1960 | Linda Lawson | Linda Lawson | Introducing Linda Lawson |
| 1960 | Helen Merrill | Helen Merrill | Parole e musica |
| 1960 | Mal Waldron | (instrumental) | Left Alone |
| 1960 | Lennie Tristano | (instrumental) | The New Tristano |
| 1961 | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | (instrumental) | Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! |
| 1961 | Eric Dolphy | (instrumental) | The Latin Jazz Quintet |
| 1962 | John Coltrane | (instrumental) | Ballads |
| 1962 | Nancy Wilson | Nancy Wilson | Hello Young Lovers |
| 1961 | Marvin Gaye | Marvin Gaye | The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye |
| 1964 | Eric Dolphy | (instrumental) | Last Date |
| 1965 | Lennie Tristano | (instrumental) | Concert in Copenhagen (released 1998) |
| 1966 | Booker Ervin | (instrumental) | Heavy!!! |
| 1966 | Eric Kloss | (instrumental) | Grits & Gravy |
| 1968 | Lee Konitz with Joe Henderson | (instrumental) | Duets |
| 1969 | Larry Coryell | (instrumental) | Lady Coryell |
| 1974 | Fenton Robinson | Fenton Robinson | Somebody Loan Me a Dime (Alligator Records) |
| 1977 | Tony Bennett with Bill Evans | Tony Bennett | Together Again |
| 1989 | George Benson | George Benson | Tenderly |
| 1989 | June Tabor | June Tabor | Some Other Time |
| 1990 | Pharoah Sanders | (instrumental) | Welcome To Love |
| 1991 | Roy Hargrove | (instrumental) | Public Eye |
| 1991 | Wynton Marsalis | (instrumental) | Standard Time, Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling |
| 1992 | Chuck Brown (and Eva Cassidy) | Chuck Brown | The Other Side |
| 1993 | Giorgia Todrani | Giorgia Todrani | Natural Woman (Live in Rome) |
| 1993 | Cassandra Wilson | Cassandra Wilson | Blue Light 'til Dawn |
| 1994 | Keith Jarrett (Standards Trio) | (instrumental) | Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note, paired with his own composition "Muezzin" |
| 1995 | Rachelle Ferrell | Rachelle Ferrell | First Instrument |
| 1996 | Warren Zevon | Warren Zevon | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (An Anthology) |
| 1997 | Miki Howard | Miki Howard | Can't Count Me Out |
| 1999 | Etta James | Etta James | Heart of a Woman |
| 2000 | John Martyn | John Martyn | Glasgow Walker |
| 2001 | Kurt Elling | Kurt Elling | Flirting with Twilight |
| 2002 | The Czars | John Grant | X Would Rather Listen to Y Than Suffer Through a Whole C of Z's (EP) |
| 2002 | Jimmy Scott | Jimmy Scott | But Beautiful |
| 2003 | Eyran Katsenelenbogen | Eyran Katsenelenbogen | It's Reigning Kats & Dogs & Bogen |
| 2003 | Chucho Valdés | (instrumental) | New Conceptions |
| 2009 | Diamanda Galás | Diamanda Galás | You Don't Know What Love Is |
| 2011 | John Scofield (Quartet) | (instrumental) | A Moment's Peace |
| 2011 | Wily Bo Walker Quintet feat. Teddy Charles | Wily Bo Walker | You Don't Know What Love Is |
| 2013 | Eliane Elias | Eliane Elias | I Thought About You |
| 2014 | Curtis Stigers | Curtis Stigers | Hooray for Love |
| 2014 | Andrew Cohen feat. Joan Osborne | Joan Osborne | Rite of Passage |
Further reading
- Hischak, Thomas S. The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 2002. ISBN 0313319928
References
- ^ a b Wilson, Jeremy. "'You Don't Know What Love Is' (1941)", JazzStandards.com, accessed October 15, 2017
- ^ "Harry James And His Orchestra – 'You Don't Know What Love Is / 'Make Love to Me'", Discogs.com, accessed October 15, 2017
- ^ See listing here
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