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]. 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