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).[1] 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.[2]
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).[3]
- Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra (January 26, 1933, Bluebird 5173).[4]
- Lee Wiley & The Dorsey Brothers (March 7, 1933)
- Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (Jack Teagarden, trombone, vocals, October 18, 1933, Columbia 2835D).[5]
- Louis Armstrong (1937)
- Billie Holiday (recorded on April 20, 1939, Commodore 527A).[6]
- Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra (1939)
- Lena Horne (1941)
- Billie Holiday - Velvet Mood (1955)[7]
- Art Tatum - Still More of the Greatest Piano of Them All (1955)[8]
- Louis Armstrong - I've Got the World on a String (1957)[9]
- Judy Garland - Alone (1957)[10]
- 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)[11]
- Frank Sinatra - Sinatra Sings of Love and Things (1962)[12]
- Judy Holliday & Gerry Mulligan - Holliday with Mulligan (1980)[13]
- Sarah Vaughan & the Count Basie Orchestra - Send in the Clowns (1981)[14]
References
- ^ "Internet Broadway Database". ibdb.com. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 515. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
- ^ "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
- ^ "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
- ^ "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
- ^ "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
- ^ "Velvet Mood : Billie Holiday". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
- ^ "Still More of the Greatest Piano of Them All". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
- ^ "I've Got the World on a String : Louis Armstrong". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
- ^ "Alone : Judy Garland". allmusic.com. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
- ^ "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues : Eileen Farrell". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
- ^ "Sinatra Sings of Love Things". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
- ^ "Holliday with Mulligan". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
- ^ "Send In the Clowns". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
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- "Saint Louis Blues" (1930)
- "Minnie the Moocher" (1931)
- "St. James Infirmary" (1931)
- "Nobody's Sweetheart" (1931)
- "Six or Seven Times" (1931)
- "You Rascal, You" (1931)
- "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (1931)
- "Reefer Man" (1932)
- "I've Got the World on a String" (1932)
- "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (1933)
- "(Hep Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive" (1939)
- "Bye Bye Blues" (1941)
- "Blues in the Night" (1942)
- "The Honeydripper" (1946)
- "Little Child" (1956)
- "History Repeats Itself" (1966)
- "Minnie the Moocher" (1978)
- Minnie the Moocher (1932)
- Snow-White (1933)
- The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
- Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
- Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935)
- Alright (1990)
- Eddie Barefield
- Danny Barker
- Mario Bauzá
- Chu Berry
- Jerry Blake
- Andrew Brown
- Doc Cheatham
- Cozy Cole
- Shad Collins
- R.Q. Dickerson
- Panama Francis
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Tyree Glenn
- J. C. Heard
- Milt Hinton
- Quentin Jackson
- Illinois Jacquet
- Hilton Jefferson
- Keg Johnson
- Claude Jones
- Jonah Jones
- Al Morgan
- Rudy Powell
- Ike Quebec
- Reuben Reeves
- Edwin Swayze
- Walter Thomas
- Ben Webster
- Morris White
- Lammar Wright Sr.
- The Cab Calloway Orchestra
- Blanche Calloway
- Camay Calloway Murphy
- Sunset Cafe
- The Missourians
- Cotton Club
- Hepcat
- Jive talk
- Zoot suit
- Jitterbug
- Cab Calloway School of the Arts
- "Hi-De-Ho"
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