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Why Don't You Do Right? is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Kansas Joe McCoy and Lil Green. Those roots explain a lot about how Why Don't You Do Right? arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Peggy Lee, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 3 connections around Why Don't You Do Right?, reaching back through Kansas Joe McCoy and forward to Peggy Lee. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"Why Don't You Do Right?" is an American blues and jazz-influenced pop song usually credited to Kansas Joe McCoy. A minor key twelve-bar blues with a few chord substitutions, it is considered a classic "woman's blues" song and has become a standard. Singer Lil Green recorded a popular rendition in 1941, which Peggy Lee recorded the next year – accompanied by Benny Goodman – and made one of her signature songs.
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Why Don't You Do Right? grew out of Kansas Joe McCoy and Lil Green, went on to shape Peggy Lee. 3 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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