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I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
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Wikipedia article
'"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. Popular recordings in 1933 and 1934 were those by Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman.
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 - Brunswick 6460).
*Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra (January 26, 1933, Bluebird 5173).
*Lee Wiley & The Dorsey Brothers (March 7, 1933)
*Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (Jack Teagarden, trombone, vocals, October 18, 1933, Columbia 2835D).
*Louis Armstrong (1937)
*Billie Holiday (recorded on April 20, 1939, Commodore 527A).
*Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra (1939)
*Lena Horne (1941)
*Billie Holiday - 'Velvet Mood' (1955)
*Art Tatum - 'Still More of the Greatest Piano of Them All' (1955)
*Louis Armstrong - 'I've Got the World on a String' (1957)
*Judy Garland - 'Alone' (1957)
*Julie London - 'About the Blues' (1957)
*Billy Eckstine - 'Billy Eckstine's Imagination' (1958)
*Sam Cooke - 'Tribute to the Lady' (1959)
*Eileen Farrell - 'I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues' (1960)
*Judy Holliday & Gerry Mulligan - 'Holliday with Mulligan' (1961)
*Frank Sinatra - 'Sinatra Sings of Love and Things' (1962)
*Sarah Vaughan & the Count Basie Orchestra - 'Send in the Clowns' (1981)
References
Category:Songs with music by Harold Arlen
Category:Pop standards
Category:Songs with lyrics by Ted Koehler
Category:1932 songs
Category:Lena Horne songs
Category:Cab Calloway songs
Category:Dorothy Lamour songs
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