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I GOTTA RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES

Created on 07/02/2006
Latest update on 20/02/2024

Artist: Lillian Shade
Author: Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler
Year: 1932

In tenth edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities.

Covers:

1932:: Cab Calloway [first recording (Brunswick)]
1932:: Louis Armstrong
1933:: Greta Garbo
1933:: Harry Roy
1934:: Benny Goodman
1939:: Billie Holiday
1940:: Dorothy Lamour
1942:: Lena Horne
1947:: Woody Herman
1955:: Perry Como
1957:: Eydie Gorme
1957:: Julie London
1957:: Judy Garland
1959:: Sam Cooke [as I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues]
1960:: Sammy Davis Jr.
1961:: Ella Fitzgerald
1962:: Frank Sinatra
1964:: Rosemary Clooney
1968:: Brenda Lee & Pete Fountain
1990:: Wynton Marsalis
1996:: Nicholas Payton
2001:: Tony Bennett & Bonnie Raitt
2004:: Maria Muldaur
2006:: Toots Thielemans [with Beth Hart]

Also Jack Teagarden's theme song.

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