You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me is a 1930 popular song written with music by Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal, with Pierre Norman also credited. It was introduced in the Maurice Chevalier film The Big Pond (1930), where Chevalier performed it and scored a successful year for the song - the first recording was Ed. Loyd and His Orchestra on March 19, 1930. In 1930 the tune became a hit for several artists including Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra with Bing Crosby, and the High Hatters, with a British cover by Bob and Alf Pearson. The song has endured as a standard and even appears in the Marx Brothers film Monkey Business (1931) where they sing it to impersonate Chevalier - Chevalier's English and French versions and Frank Sinatra's renditions are among the best known. Over the years it has been recorded by many artists including Ella Fitzgerald (1958), Doris Day (1953), Vera Lynn (1964), and Frank Sinatra on Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956) and Sinatra '65 (1965) - cementing its place in both pop and jazz repertoires.
