[78-L] the song title switcheroo

Bud Black banjobud at cfl.rr.com
Mon Aug 12 08:28:50 PDT 2013


I have never heard a female sing "Old Man River," or any male sing "My Man.". That's not to say it never happened!

Bud

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On Aug 12, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Dave Burnham <burnhamd at rogers.com> wrote:

> I know that but I was looking only at the period when it might have been recorded. 
> 
> db
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 2013-08-12, at 4:22 AM, Don Cox <doncox at enterprise.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/08/2013, Dave Burnham 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.
>>> 
>> It was "God Save the King" until 1837.
>> 
>> Regards
>> -- 
>> Don Cox
>> doncox at enterprise.net
>> 
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