"I've Got the World on a String" is a popular jazz song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler. It was published by Mills Music in 1932 and written for the twenty-first edition of the Cotton Club Parade, which opened on October 23, 1932. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra recorded and popularized it, and their recording reached number 18 in 1932. Louis Armstrong recorded the song in 1933, and Bing Crosby followed on January 26, 1933, with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra. Frank Sinatra's version, recorded on April 30, 1953, with Nelson Riddle's orchestra, reached number 14 on Billboard's most-played list. Later recordings include versions by Lee Wiley, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Diana Krall, Michael Bublé and Lady Gaga, who recorded it in 2024. Anthony Perkins also sang the song in the television drama Winter Dream.
