Tuesday, 18 November 2014

SINATRA SINGS " I GOTTA RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES"

Sinatra sings " I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues ."  For the 1932 version of Earl Carroll's Vanities, Arlen and  Ted Koehler wrote I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues.  Although it is not in the form of a traditional 12 bar blues format, it conveys again a nostalgic sadness where the lyric states that" Soon the deep , blue sea, will soon be calling me" threatens eventual suicide.
Sinatra sings it in more breezy style minimizing the impact of the somber lyrics.

Sinatra version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXqmQ-N0JxI

Billie Holiday, on the other hand, invests the song with the real deep down sadness of the blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hphLVYa80qI


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