[78-L] the song title switcheroo

[Randy Watts]

"Buttermilk Sky" is the song I was referring to.

Randy


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On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 12:21 PM CDT Randy Watts wrote:

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>Might be from the Capitol album of Kyser remakes.  Actually Billy May, IIRC, with Stan Freberg imitating Kay. Capitol issued it on CD years ago.
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>Randy
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>On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 12:09 PM CDT Taylor Bowie wrote:
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>>Oh,  no!!!  Any way to tell the difference from the labels of the two 
>>versions?
>>
>>Speaking of two versions,  there is a version on YouTube of Kyser's Old 
>>Buttermilk Sky which does not sound like my issued Columbia,  although it's 
>>the same chart and with Michael Douglas and the girls singing.  Does anyone 
>>know the source of this...is it a second or unissued take?
>>
>>The Kyser band in the 40s was outstanding...they had come quite a way from 
>>the days of the Three Little Fishes...
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>>
>>Thanks from
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>>Taylor
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>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "David Weiner" <djwein at earthlink.net>
>>To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 9:48 AM
>>Subject: Re: [78-L] the song title switcheroo
>>
>>
>> Funny you should mention that about the Kyser-Babbitt record - they
>> actually recorded it twice, first with original lyrics and then shortly
>> after with more -man-friendly ones. And both versions have been issued.
>>
>> Dave Weiner
>>
>> On 8/12/13 12:44 PM, "Randy Watts" <rew1014 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>
>>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
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>>On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 10:28 AM CDT Bud Black wrote:
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>>>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:
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>>> 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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