<P> `` You Do n't Know What Love Is '' is a popular song of the Great American Songbook , written by Don Raye ( lyrics ) and Gene de Paul ( music ) for the Abbott and Costello picture Keep ' Em Flying ( 1941 ) , in which it was sung by Carol Bruce . The number was deleted from the film prior to release . Universal later added the song into the Raye / de Paul score of one of its B musicals , the 60 - minute Behind the Eight Ball ( 1942 ) , starring the Ritz Brothers and re-teaming Carol Bruce and Dick Foran from `` Keep ' Em Flying '' . `` You Do n't Know What Love Is '' was again sung by Carol Bruce ; it was her third and final film until the 1980s . </P>
<P> `` You Do n't Know What Love Is '' is a popular song of the Great American Songbook , written by Don Raye ( lyrics ) and Gene de Paul ( music ) for the Abbott and Costello picture Keep ' Em Flying ( 1941 ) , in which it was sung by Carol Bruce . The number was deleted from the film prior to release . Universal later added the song into the Raye / de Paul score of one of its B musicals , the 60 - minute Behind the Eight Ball ( 1942 ) , starring the Ritz Brothers and re-teaming Carol Bruce and Dick Foran from `` Keep ' Em Flying '' . `` You Do n't Know What Love Is '' was again sung by Carol Bruce ; it was her third and final film until the 1980s . </P>
who wrote you do n 't know what love is lyrics
who wrote you do n 't know what love is lyrics
Don Raye
Don Raye