I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
"I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, published in 1932 for the Broadway show, Earl Carroll's Vanities [1932]. The song has become a jazz and blues standard.
Notable recordings
- Ethel Merman (September 29, 1932) (her first solo date and the first recording of the song, backed by Nat Shilkret's orchestra)
- Cab Calloway & His Orchestra (November 30, 1932)
- Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra (January 26, 1933)
- Lee Wiley & The Dorsey Brothers (March 7, 1933)
- Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (Jack Teagarden, trombone, vocals, October 18, 1933)
- Louis Armstrong (1937)
- Billie Holiday (1939)
- Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra (1939)
- Lena Horne (1941)
- Jack Teagarden 1953-54 in San Francisco (1954)
- Billie Holiday - Velvet Mood (1955)
- Art Tatum - Still More Of The Greatest Piano Of Them All (1955)
- Louis Armstrong (1957)
- Judy Garland - Alone (1957)
- Billy Eckstine - Imagination (1958)
- Sam Cooke - Tribute To The Lady (1959)
- Judy Holliday - Holliday With Mulligan (1961)
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (1961)
- Frank Sinatra - Sinatra Sings of Love and Things (1962)
- Julie London - About the Blues (1967)
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