[78-L] the song title switcheroo

[Taylor Bowie]

I love that Kyser record of He Wears A Pair of Silver Wings...Babbitt sings 
the lyrics in "third person" so he gets away with it.   I don't recall 
hearing any other versions although there must be some on record.

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Watts" <rew1014 at yahoo.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] the song title switcheroo


>
> Along these lines, I think the lyrical gender-switch that bothers me most 
> is when women sing "Have You Met Miss Jones" and change it to something 
> like "Sir Jones" or "Old Jones," or try to squeeze "Mister Jones" into the 
> notes for "Miss Jones."
>
> Kay Kyser's "He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings" always sounds like a lyric 
> more suited to a woman than to Harry Babbitt. Patti Page's "I Went to Your 
> Wedding," conversely, sounds like a lyric written for a man.
>
> Randy
>
>
> ------------------------------
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 10:28 AM CDT Bud Black wrote:
>
>>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
>>
>>Sent from my iPad
>>
>>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
>
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