Recording: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

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Performed by

Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra

Recording date

January 26, 1933

First release

On Audio single I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (1933)

Rating

Song info

Song

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

Music written by

Harold Arlen

Lyrics written by

Ted Koehler

First performance

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues by Lillian Shade in stage production Earl Carroll's Vanities (September 27, 1932)

First recording

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues by Cab Calloway & His Orchestra (November 30, 1932)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Lillian Shade	September 27, 1932 (performance date)
2	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Cab Calloway & His Orchestra	1932
3	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	1933
4	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra	1933
5	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Billie Holiday	1939
6	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Ginny Simms & Her Orchestra	1939
7	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Dorothy Lamour	1940
8	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Lena Horne	1942
9	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Ellis Larkins	1952
10	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Perry Como	September 1955
11	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Oscar Peterson	1955
12	I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues	Jerry Jerome	1956
13	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Judy Garland	May 6, 1957
14	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Julie London	1957
15	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Matt Dennis	1957
16	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Gary Crosby, Orchestra Conducted by Bud Shank	1957
17	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Joe Bushkin	1958
18	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Billy Eckstine	1958
19	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Jimmy Giuffre	1959
20	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Len Barnard	1959
21	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Eileen Farrell, Orchestra Under the Direction of Luther Henderson	1960
22	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Art Tatum	1960
23	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Ella Fitzgerald	1961
24	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Frances Faye	1961
25	I Got a Right to Sing the Blues	Cal Tjader	1962
26	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Cleo Laine	1962
27	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Big Miller with the Big Band of Bob Florence	1962
28	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	The Four Freshmen	1963
29	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Pete Fountain and His Guest Stars	1965
30	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Urbie Green and Twenty of the World's Greatest	1968
31	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Doc Cheatham, Johnny Guarnieri, George Duvivier, Oliver Jackson	1975
32	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Maxine Sullivan With Ted Easton's Jazz Band	1976
33	I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues	Karin Krog, Bengt Hallberg	1977
34	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Sarah Vaughan & The Count Basie Orchestra	1980
35	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	The Big Sky Mudflaps	1983
36	I Got a Right to Sing the Blues	Heinie Beau & His Hollywood Sextet with Bob Havens	1984
37	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Wynton Marsalis	June 1990
38	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Loren Schoenberg Jazz Orchestra	1990
39	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Sue Matthews	1991
40	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Spike Robinson and George Masso	1992
41	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Barbara Lea, The Ed Polcer All-Stars	1993
42	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Ross Tompkins	1994
43	Ill Wind/I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	KT Sullivan	November 21, 1995
44	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Phil Wilson [1] and Paul Schmeling	1995
45	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	John Bunch	1997
46	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Sarah Partridge	February 3, 1998
47	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Tony Bennett wtth Bonnie Raitt	2001
48	I've Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Marc Anthony Thompson	February 11, 2003
49	I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues	Chris Flory with Duke Robillard and Friends	June 3, 2003
50	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Maria Muldaur	August 24, 2004
51	I Got a Right to Sing the Blues	Claire Martin, Richard Rodney Bennett	2005
52	I Got a Right to Sing the Blues	Brush Street featuring Julie Muladey	2006
53	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Toots Thielemans with Beth Hart	2006
54	I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues	Dawn Lambeth	2007