[78-L] the song title switcheroo

[Don Chichester]

I've read somewhere that lyricists did not like singers to change the lyrics of their songs, even if the gender was wrong.  

Don
 
> From: bowiebks at isomedia.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 13:18:43 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] the song title switcheroo
> 
> And who could ever forget the seductive and romantic tones of Frank 
> Bessinger singing on the Goldkette of  "I'd Rather Be The Girl In Your 
> Arms"???
> 
> I may have mentioned it before,  but none of them can top the Perfect studio 
> band recording (can't recall the name they use) with Scrappy Lambert mooing 
> all about what he finds "In My Little Hope Chest."
> 
> It would be easy to let one's imagination run wild picturing what Scrappy 
> might have been doing with a pair of "feathered slippers"  and the 
> "daintiest of lingerie."
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Weiner" <djwein at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 12:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] the song title switcheroo
> 
> 
> > Strangely, in a 1930 film short, Marion Harris sang, "I'm Funny That Way,'
> > rather than the expected "He's Funny That Way."
> >
> > Dave Weiner
> >
> > On 8/11/13 12:58 PM, "Dave Burnham" <burnhamd at rogers.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I don't know about a song's gender being changed to accommodate the
> >>singer but surely one of the first to be changed to accommodate the
> >>singee would be "God save the Queen" changed to "God save the King" in
> >>1902 for Edward VII.
> >>
> >>db
> >>
> >>Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>On 2013-08-11, at 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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