I Can't Give You Anything but Love (The Mills Brothers)

The Mills Brothers · 1932 · Standard de Jimmy McHugh, version a cappella de 1932

Context

Recorded for Brunswick on December 22, 1932, at the session where they also sang on “Diga Diga Do” by Duke Ellington's orchestra.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Rockin' Chair (The Mills Brothers) (1932)
• Good-bye Blues (The Mills Brothers) (1932)
• St. Louis Blues (The Mills Brothers) (1932)
• Tiger Rag (The Mills Brothers) (1931)
• Nobody's Sweetheart (The Mills Brothers) (1931)
• You Rascal, You (The Mills Brothers) (1931)

Sources

• adp.library.ucsb.edu
• EN: Mills Brothers discography

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