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I've Got the World on a String

 

Written: 1932

Music by: Harold Arlen

Words by: Ted Koehler

Written for: Cotton Club Parade
(revue, 20th Edition, 1932)

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Michael Bublé

 

from the concert
Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden
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December 5, 2008

 

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About theshow (revue) Cotton Club Parade (1932 / 20th Edition)

Other songs written for The Cotton Club Parade (20th Edition) currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook: none

 

For a complete listing of songs used in the original production of this revue, see details page.

sheet music cover: I've Got the World on a String from Cotton Club Parade
"I've Got the World on a String" - Re-Print (sheet music From the "Cotton Club Parade")

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Click here to read the lyrics for "I've Got the World on a String," as sung by Frank Sinatra in his classic version of the song, arranged by Nelson Riddle, originally recorded April 30, 1953 in the Capitol Studio (Riddle's first arrangement for Sinatra) -- or read the lyrics as they stream on the video below. Find this track at:

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Neither the Sinatra version just above or the Bublé version
on the Cafe Songbook Main Stage include the verse.

To hear the song sung with its verse, listen to the Bing Crosby version below, in which Koehler sets up his refrainby letting us know that the singer needs a less than commonplace way of expressing how good he feels.


Crosby recorded "I've Got the World on a String"
Jan. 26, 1933, backed by a band led by Lennie Hayton
featuring Artie Shaw, clarinet; Tommy Dorsey, trombone;
Sterling Bose, Trumpet; and Stan King, drums. Find this track at:

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The complete, authoritative lyrics for "I've Got the World on a String," can be found in:


book cover: "Reading Lyrics" Ed. by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball

Reading Lyrics,
Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.


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