Billie Holiday - I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Brunswick Records 1937)

"I Can't Give You Anything but Love" is an American popular song and jazz standard by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics). The song 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 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.

Billie's accompanied by Jonah Jones, t / Benny Goodman (as JOHN JACKSON), cl / Ben Webster, ts / Teddy Wilson, p / Allan Reuss, g / John Kirby, sb / Cozy Cole, d. Recorded in New York, November 19, 1936. (Brunswick Records)

I can't give you anything but love, baby

That's the only thing I've plenty of, baby

Scheme a while dream a while

We're sure to find

Happiness and I guess

All those things you've always pined for

Gee I'd like to see you looking swell, baby

Diamond bracelets Woolworth doesn't sell, baby

Until that lucky day

You know darned well, baby

I can't give you anything but love

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