[78-L] the song title switcheroo

David Weiner djwein at earthlink.net
Sun Aug 11 12:48:40 PDT 2013


Whiteman brought in guest singer Vaughn DeLeath to sing "The Man I Love"
in 1928. Rather than have Bing sing it, as he did "There Ain't No Sweet
Man" two months earlier.

Dave Weiner

On 8/11/13 12:51 PM, "Malcolm Rockwell" <malcolm at 78data.com> wrote:

>I just spotted an Annette Hanshaw record on eBay that got me thinking (I
>know, I know...). It's "Ain't He Sweet?" on Perfect 12353 which closes
>in about 2 hours. I have seen many instances where a song title written
>to be sung by a man was sung by a woman and vice versa, without changing
>the gender within the tune. But what was the first instance where the
>switcheroo was made?
>Malcolm
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