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Why Don't You Do Right?
Blues song popularized by Peggy Lee
"Why Don't You Do Right?" (originally recorded as "Weed Smoker's Dream" in 1936) is an American blues and jazz-influenced pop song usually credited to Kansas Joe McCoy.[1] 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.
The song appeared in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, performed by actress Amy Irving as the singing voice for Jessica Rabbit.