I GOTTA RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES This song by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler from the 1932 Earl CarrollVanities deals with the subject of the blues, it is not the classic form of the 12 bar blues. Although Arlen has been typecast as a blues composer, he himself has said that Blues in the Night is his only true blues song. Nonetheless, so many of his songs are drenched in a blues feeling. This is the case with I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues, a favorite song for trombonist Jack Teagarden.
Maxine Sullivan, who worked at the famous Cotton Club. delivers the song in a relaxed and gently swinging fashion.
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