Haven't Got A Worry
1952


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Highlights
  • Written for the 1953 Paramount Picture, The Stars Are Singing starring Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti and Lauritz Melchior.
  • Anna Maria Alberghetti plays an illegal Polish alien and Rosemary Clooney the dewey-eyed showbiz aspirant who protects the refugee girl. The two ladies pin their hopes on a TV talent contest. Alberghetti becomes an opera star, while Clooney becomes a pop singer.
  • Metropolitan Opera luminary Lauritz Melchior, dancer Tom Morton, and the comedy dog act team of Bob Williams and Red Dust round out the cast.
  • HAVEN'T GOT A WORRY sung in the film by Rosemary Clooney.

WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON
COPYRIGHT 1952


Recording History
Anna Maria Alberghetti and Rosemary Clooney, Electro-Vox, 1952
Rosemary Clooney, Dedicated to Nelson Concord Jazz, The Great American Composers Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, Columbia House, 8651, 1952
Rosemary Clooney and Jay Livingston
Billy Stritch and Christine Ebersole, Sunday in New York, ShkBoom Records, 2008
Lyrics
Spoken:
Feelin’ fine, feelin’ great, I got a reason to celebrate,
Feelin’ great, feelin’ fine, caught me some happiness on my line! 

Birds can fly, so can I,
I’m happy I’m flyin’ high;
Haven’t got a worry to my name! 

She’s my friend, he’s my pal!
Ev’rybody’s my guy and gal;
Haven’t got a worry to my name! 

I do ev’rything I do with brand new rhythm;
Tell those lucky stars
I’m movin’ right in with ‘em. 

Fly the flags, ring the bells, what a future my fortune tells!
Feel so free I’ll never be the same;
I haven’t got a worry to my name. 

There are some who study nights to be a mourner;
Me, I have a new adventure ‘round each corner.

Fly the flags, ring the bells, what a future my fortune tells!
Feel so free I’ll never be the same;
I haven’t got a worry to my name. 

Who’s got time to worry?
Haven’t got a worry to my name!

HAVEN'T GOT A WORRY As sung by Rosemary Clooney and Anna Maria Alberghetti in the Paramount Picture The Stars Are Singing, Famous Music Corporation, 1953. Words and Music by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Special Picture Release)