Victor matrix BVE-48102. I can't give you anything but love / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington

Additional Information
  • Description: Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo
  • Instrumentation: 3 saxophones, 2 cornets, trombone, tuba, banjo, piano, and traps
  • Category: Instrumental with vocal refrain
  • Language: English
  • Master Size: 10-in.
Notes
Instrumentation is from Victor ledgers and is not confirmed; collective personnel from notes to a reissue compilation CD. Personnel listings here are not intended to imply that every instrument listed is played on every master recorded at the session.
Source(s): CD: Duke Ellington centennial edition : The complete RCA Victor recordings (personnel); Rigler-Deutsch Index; Victor blue history card; trade catalog; Victor ledgers; disc.
Take Date and PlaceTakeStatusLabel Name/NumberFormatNote
10/30/1928 New York, New York 1 Hold/master Victor [BVE-48102] 10-in.
10/30/1928 New York, New York 1 Master/hold RCA Victor DUKE2 Compact disc
10/30/1928 New York, New York 2 Hold/master Victor V-38008 10-in.

I can't give you anything but love / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington

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I can't give you anything but love / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington - Victor V-38008 - Take 2 - 10/30/1928
Audio of this recording from the UCSB Library
℗ © 1929 Sony Music Entertainment.

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I can't give you anything but love / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington - Victor V-38008 - Take 2 - 10/30/1928
Audio from the Joe Bussard Collection provided by:
℗ © 1929 Sony Music Entertainment.
11/10/1928 New York, New York [2]2R Hold/master Bluebird B-6280 10-in. From a dub made on 3/16/1936. Listed as by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra.
11/10/1928 New York, New York [2]2R Hold/master Montgomery Ward M-4990 10-in. From a dub made on 3/16/1936.
11/10/1928 New York, New York [2]2R Hold/master RCA Victor DUKE2 Compact disc From a dub made on 3/16/1936.
11/10/1928 New York, New York 3 Hold
11/10/1928 New York, New York 4 Hold

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Victor matrix BVE-48102. I can't give you anything but love / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington," accessed December 11, 2025, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800021904/BVE-48102-I_cant_give_you_anything_but_love.

Victor matrix BVE-48102. I can't give you anything but love / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 11, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800021904/BVE-48102-I_cant_give_you_anything_but_love.

"Victor matrix BVE-48102. I can't give you anything but love / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2025. Web. 11 December 2025.

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