I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

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"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) I Gotta to Sing the Blues 2013

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)

Sarah Vaughan - Send in the Clowns accompanied bz the Count Basie Orchestra 1981

References

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues Wikipedia

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