This Can't Be Love is a show tune and jazz standard written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1938 Broadway musical The Boys from Syracuse. The song jokingly spoofs the usual sick with love lyrics with the line This can’t be love because I feel so well. It was introduced on Broadway in 1938 by Eddie Albert and Marcy Westcott. It became a hit for the orchestras of Horace Heidt and Benny Goodman in late 1938 and early 1939, with vocalists Martha Tilton and Larry Cotton. Over the years it has been recorded by many artists and appeared on albums such as Nat King Cole Sings for Two in Love (1955) and Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook (1956) and Diana Krall’s Stepping Out (1993). The tune has also appeared in films, notably The Boys from Syracuse (1940) and Jumbo (1962).
