jim02026 | Roaring '20s Hits On The Player-I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE @jim02026 | Uploaded September 2010 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
As most of you know, the 1920s was the peak of the player piano's popularity. Here we have a great rendition of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" Issued as Imperial 07006. Although this roll does not indicate the player pianist/arranger, I am almost certain, judging by the all too familiar hooks and stride in this arrangement, that this could only be none other than J. Lawrence Cook. Mr. Cook arranged most, if not all of the Imperial roll releases anonymously after QRS absorbed Imperial in the mid 1920s. He also arranged rolls for the United States Roll Co.--after QRS absorbed that company at the same time as Imperial--under the pseudo name of Fred Parsons. Originally from the Broadway musical "Blackbirds Of 1928", the song was made popular by Cliff Edwards (aka "Ukelele Ike"). Edwards later served as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in the Walt Disney animated classic "Pinocchio". "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" was revived in 1936 by Billie Holiday.
As most of you know, the 1920s was the peak of the player piano's popularity. Here we have a great rendition of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" Issued as Imperial 07006. Although this roll does not indicate the player pianist/arranger, I am almost certain, judging by the all too familiar hooks and stride in this arrangement, that this could only be none other than J. Lawrence Cook. Mr. Cook arranged most, if not all of the Imperial roll releases anonymously after QRS absorbed Imperial in the mid 1920s. He also arranged rolls for the United States Roll Co.--after QRS absorbed that company at the same time as Imperial--under the pseudo name of Fred Parsons. Originally from the Broadway musical "Blackbirds Of 1928", the song was made popular by Cliff Edwards (aka "Ukelele Ike"). Edwards later served as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in the Walt Disney animated classic "Pinocchio". "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" was revived in 1936 by Billie Holiday.
