I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby

"I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby"
Sheet music, 1928
Song by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields
Released1928
Recorded1928
GenreJazz
Songwriter(s)Dorothy Fields
Composer(s)Jimmy McHugh
Producer(s)Jimmy McHugh

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

Adelaide Hall on the cover of Vu magazine in 1929

In the 100-most recorded songs from 1890 to 1954, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" (1928) is No. 24.[1]

The original lyrics and music of the song entered the public domain in the United States in 2024.[2]

  1. ^ Hope, Carolyn. "Barry's Hits of All Decades". hitsofalldecades.com. Retrieved July 25, 2018. This list was compiled by data from the book Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954 (1986) Published by Billboard Publications
  2. ^ "Public Domain Day 2024 | Duke University School of Law". web.law.duke.edu.

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