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

• Cab Calloway & His Orchestra (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)
• 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)