I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
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For the Sir Roland Hanna and Carrie Smith album, see I've Got a 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]