"Why Don't You Do Right
?" is an American blues- and jazz-influenced pop song - now a standard - written in 1936 by
Kansas Joe McCoy
. It is a twelve-bar song written in a minor key. Although it is not in the twelve-bar blues form (it is more of an aabc form in which the c part is similar to the a part), it is considered a classic "woman's blues" song.
One of the best known versions of the song is Peggy Lee's, which was recorded July 27, 1942 in New York with
Benny Goodman
; or you can check out the more modern version "
Why Don't You Do Right" 
as sung by
Jessica Rabbit
. I think she would have given
Betty Boop 
a run for her money : )
or do you prefer Peggy Lee?
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