Peter Bromberg: You Dont Know What Love Is Chick can sing. Tune was written by Don Raye (lyrics) and Gene de Paul (music) for the Abbott and Costello 1941 Universal picture Keep Em Flying, in which it was sung by Carol Bruce. The number was deleted prior to release. Universal ended putting 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. Here, You Dont Know What Love Is was again sung by Carol Bruce, in her third and final film until the 1980s. Bruce would find her greatest success on Broadway. From such curious beginnings as an outtake in an A picture and an introduction in a B, both by the same singer, no one could have predicted that in later years the song would emerge as a masterpiece—a jazz standard to be recorded several hundreds of times, starting when Miles Davis and other jazz musicians began recording and playing the song in the 1950s. The Robert Hunt Trio, with which I played contrabass, used to do this tune in clubs in and around NYC. https://plus.google/114085939943834183247/posts/baqU9Hfbeqg
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 02:03:57 +0000