I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues-A Woman's Sad Lament: In the " Earl Carroll's Vanities" of 1932,,Arlen and Ted Koehler created a standard still popular today. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues. The verse or introductory segment states that the singer's heart " Is in Pain" and her song " Couldn't belong to someone feeling gay."
The chorus maintains more details of this sorrowful tale where she feels the right to feel low down, " down around the river." When she sings that the " Deep Blue Sea Will soon be calling me" there is a not-so-veiled threat about drowning herself and that's why she " Has a Right To Sing The Blues."'
In the show there was a beautiful showgirl called Anya Taranda. She had been a successful model and was chosen because Earl Carrol advertised the show as having " The Most Beautiful Girls in the World." Harold was instantly smitten and they became quite close, eventually marrying with marital difficulties later on in their lives.
There are males who have recorded the song but the lyrics clearly were meant for a woman to sing. Jack Teagarden always sang it but with changes in the lyrics.
One vivid performance by a woman is by Eydie Gorme who died just recently at age 84. Her partnership with husband Steve Lawrence was dynamic since both were fine singers and together made wonderful music based on their obvious love for each other.
Gorme has a strong, clear voice with a huge vocal range and her performance is a defiant exposition of the blues unlike other more tragic versions. Nevertheles,she still expresses the pain and uncertainty born of an unhappy love affair.
LINK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecRzOlCFees
No comments:
Post a Comment