[78-L] the song title switcheroo

[Taylor Bowie]

I hope my ears have not become full of wax...I am sure it's Mike singing on 
the version I played on YouTube.

Thanks for checking that out for me.


Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Watts" <rew1014 at yahoo.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] the song title switcheroo


>
> 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
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> 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>
>>To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 10:21 AM
>>Subject: Re: [78-L] the song title switcheroo
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>------------------------------
>>>>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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