I've Gotta Be Me

"I've Gotta Be Me" is a song that was written by Walter Marks for the 1968 Broadway musical Golden Rainbow, which starred Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé. It was recorded by Lawrence as a single, and then famously covered by Sammy Davis Jr., whose version reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.

The song was parodied twice on Sesame Street, as "Me Gotta Be Blue" (sung by Cookie Monster), and "I Gotta Be Clean" (by Bert).