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You Don't Know What Love Is

Billie Holiday

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Billie Holiday

Vocals

Ray Ellis and His Orchestra

Ray Ellis and His Orchestra

Performer

Elise Bretton

Soprano

Ray Ellis

Conductor

Miriam Workman

Soprano

Lois Sylvin

Soprano

Barry Galbraith

Barry Galbraith

Guitar

Phil Kraus

Percussion

Mal Waldron

Percussion

Osie Johnson

Drums

Staff Sgt. George Ockner

Staff Sgt. George Ockner

Violin

Milt Hinton

Bass

David Sawyer

Cello

Janet Putman

Harp

Danny Banks

Woodwinds

Phil Bodner

Woodwinds

Romeo Penque

Woodwinds

Mel Davis

Trumpet

Urbie Green

Trombone

J.J. Johnson

Trombone

Tom Mitchell

Trombone

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Gene de Paul

Composer

Ray Ellis

Arranger

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Irving Townsend

Irving Townsend

Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

You don't know what love is

Until you've learned the meaning of the blues

Until you've loved a love you've had to lose

You don't know what love is

[Verse 2]

You don't know how lips hurt

Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost

Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost

You don't know what love is

[Bridge]

Do you know how lost it feels?

The thought of reminiscing

And how lips that taste of tears

Lose their taste for kissing

[Verse 3]

You don't know how hearts burn

For love that cannot live, yet never dies

Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes

You don't know what love is

[Instrumental]

You don't know how hearts burn

For love that cannot live, yet never dies

Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes

You don't know what love is

[Outro]

What love Is

Written by: Don Raye, Gene de Paul

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