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. 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
- Cab Calloway & His Orchestra.
- Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra.
- Lee Wiley & The Dorsey Brothers
- Benny Goodman & His Orchestra.
- Louis Armstrong
- Billie Holiday.
- Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra
- Lena Horne
- Billie Holiday - Velvet Mood
- Art Tatum - Still More of the Greatest Piano of Them All
- Louis Armstrong - I've Got the World on a String
- Judy Garland - Alone
- Julie London - About the Blues
- Billy Eckstine - Billy Eckstine's Imagination
- Sam Cooke - Tribute to the Lady
- Eileen Farrell - I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues
- Frank Sinatra - Sinatra Sings of Love and Things
- Judy Holliday & Gerry Mulligan - Holliday with Mulligan
- Sarah Vaughan & the Count Basie Orchestra - ''Send in the Clowns''