[78-L] the song title switcheroo

[Randy Watts]

Just checked. Michael Douglas is on the Capitol album, but doing "The Old Lamplighter," not "Old Buttermilk Sky." 

For some reason, Capitol left Freberg's Kyser introductions off the CD, but they can be heard on the original LP.

Randy



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On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 12:25 PM CDT Taylor Bowie wrote:

>Thanks,  Randy...did they get Douglas to come back for the Capitol album? 
>He and the vocal group sound like exactly the same people on the issued 
>Columbia.
>
>I'd love to hear Stan doing a Kay Kyser imitation...
>
>
>Taylor
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Randy Watts" <rew1014 at yahoo.com>
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>Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 10:21 AM
>Subject: Re: [78-L] the song title switcheroo
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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.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 12:09 PM CDT Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>
>>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...
>>
>>
>>Thanks from
>>
>>Taylor
>>
>>
>>
>>----- 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>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:
>>>
>>>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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