Trav'lin' Light (song)

Trav'lin' Light (song)

"Trav'lin' Light" is a 1942 song composed by Trummy Young and Jimmy Mundy with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

Notable recordings

*Billie Holiday on "Billie's Blues" (1942)
*Ella Fitzgerald on "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook" (1965)
*Peggy Lee (1949)
*Anita O'Day on "Trav'lin' Light" (1961)
*Tony Bennett on "Tony Bennett on Holiday" (1997)
*Queen Latifah on "Trav'lin' Light" (2007)


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