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What Do You Know About Love?

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What Do You Know About Love?
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1959 (1959-12)
StudioBrussels
GenreTraditional pop[1]
LabelJubilee
ProducerMorty Palitz
Della Reese chronology
The Story of the Blues
(1959)
What Do You Know About Love?
(1959)
Della
(1960)
Singles from What Do You Know About Love?
  1. "I'm Nobody's Baby"
    Released: August 1959
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

What Do You Know About Love? is a studio album by American singer Della Reese. It was released in December 1959 by Jubilee Records. The songs on the album focused on stories about love and mixed two new tracks with ten standards conducted by Reg Owens. The song "I'm Nobody's Baby" was released as a single.

Background, recording and content

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Della Reese found success as both a television actress and as a singer. She began her career singing in the fields of gospel, blues and pop. Her first recording contract was with Jubilee Records, where she remained through 1959. During this period, Reese had commercial success with the single "And That Reminds Me".[2] Among her studio recordings from Jubilee was 1959's What Do You Know About Love?.[3] The album was recorded in Brussels, Belgium while Reese was performing overseas. The album had orchestra arrangements conducted by Reg Owens with production from Morty Palitz.[4] What Do You Know About Love? consisted of 12 tracks.[1] The album's title and the story lines of its songs were all centered on love. Ten of its tracks were covers of standards while two were new recordings.[4] Among its covers were Duke Ellington's "I Got It Bad".[1]

Release, critical reception and singles

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What Do You Know About Love? was originally released in December 1959 on the Jubilee label.[5] It was distributed as a vinyl LP, with six tracks on each side of the disc. It was offered in both mono and stereo formats.[4] The album was Reese's final with Jubilee before she transitioned to RCA Victor.[3] Billboard found the album had "moving vocal performances"[6] while Cash Box found that it "presents Miss Reese in a program of superior love ballads."[7] AllMusic's Lindsay Planer gave the album four out of five stars, praising Reese's readings of material, but also found that some tracks lacked some of the individuality found inside her recordings.[1] The album included one single release: "I'm Nobody's Baby". It was issued by Jubilee in August 1959.[8]

Track listing

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Side one[4]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."What Do You Know About Love?"
  • M. Goode
  • W. Scarf
3:11
2."When I Fall in Love"A. Selden3:10
3."Something I Dreamed Last Night"
3:35
4."I Got It Bad"3:17
5."I'll Never Be the Same"2:10
6."You Better Go Now"
  • B. Reichner
  • R. Graham
2:43
Side two[4]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I'm Nobody's Baby"
  • B. Davis
  • M. Ager
  • L. Santly
3:08
2."I Never Knew"
  • T. Pitts
  • R. Egan
  • R. K. Marsh
3:05
3."I Thought of You Last Night"R. Freed2:09
4."You Don't Know What Love Is"2:39
5."I'm Thru with Love"
3:17
6."That's All There Is"G. Jenkins2:20

Release history

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Release history and formats for What Do You Know About Love?
Region Date Format Label Ref.
North America December 1959
  • Vinyl LP (mono)
  • vinyl LP (stereo)
Jubilee Records [4]
Australia 1961 Vinyl LP (mono) Festival Records [9]
Japan January 2017 Compact disc Jubilee Records [10]
North America circa 2020
  • Music download
  • streaming
Parlophone Records [11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Planer, Lindsay. "What Do You Know About Love? - Della Reese: Songs, reviews, credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  2. ^ Huey, Steve. "Della Reese Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  3. ^ a b Will Friedwald (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Knopf Doubleday. p. 385-388. ISBN 9780307379894.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Reese, Della (December 1959). "What Do You Know About Love? (Disc Information)". Jubilee Records. JGM-1109 (LP mono); SDLP-1109 (LP stereo).
  5. ^ "December Album Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. December 12, 1959. p. 58. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  6. ^ "Reviews of This Wek's LP's: Very Strong Sales Potential". Billboard. November 9, 1959. p. 38. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Album Reviews: Popular Picks of the Week" (PDF). Cash Box. November 14, 1959. p. 46. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  8. ^ Reese, Della (August 1959). ""I'm Nobody's Baby"/"I Don't Want to Walk Without You" (7" vinyl single)". Jubilee Records. 45-5375.
  9. ^ Reese, Della (1961). "What Do You Know About Love? [Australia]". Festival Records. FL31314 (LP mono).
  10. ^ Reese, Della (January 2017). "What Do You Know About Love? [Japan]". Jubilee Records. WPCR-29172 (CD).
  11. ^ "What Do You Know About Love? - Album by Della Reese". Apple Music. Retrieved 8 December 2024.