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Tue Apr 10 12:45:33 PDT 2018

For a more ambiguous example,  there's Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon with various groups

A wonderfully salacious song is My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) by Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band '29

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Sorry to say you can't post an MP3 to 78-L but if you have a link you
can post that.
Mal

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On 4/10/2018 7:34 AM, Robert Godridge wrote:
> One of my favorites is I want to be bad by the piccadilly players, not
> sure who's singing
> I'll post an mp3 when I find my copy!
>
> On 4/10/18, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
>> Don't forget, dance bands were still using male vocalists or groups. The
>> female
>> singers were vaudeville or musical comedy stars or blues singers, not
>> "incidental vocalists" who usually came out of the band. Mildred Bailey was
>> one
>> of the first to be featured.
>>
>> dl
>>
>>
>> On 4/10/2018 12:06 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>> Who can ever forget the booming voice of Frank Bessinger on the Goldkette
>>> of
>>> "I'd Rather Be the Girl in Your Arms (Than the Girl in Your Dreams)"?
>>>
>>> There is also a  1929 dance band (Majestic?  Schubert?)  on Perfect etc.
>>> of
>>> In My Little Hope Chest with a dreadful Scrappy Lambert vocal,  in which
>>> he
>>> fondles the various items found in Said Chest,  including  his "feathered
>>> slippers" and the "daintiest of lingerie..."
>>>
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid>
>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 6:41 AM
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>>>
>>>
>>>> Noel Coward recorded Mad About the Boy in 1931 but it was unissued (till
>>>> a
>>>> test
>>>> pressing was made available and released on Naxos).
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4/10/2018 9:36 AM, Martin Fisher wrote:
>>>>> Jimmie Rodgers-The Soldier's Sweetheart
>>>>>
>>>>>     :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> MF
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>>>>> <78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com> On Behalf Of Malcolm
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 12:39 AM
>>>>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>>> Subject: [78-L] Switched subjects
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I just came across a Nat Cole record on eBay. It's the classic "The Man
>>>>> I
>>>>> Love"
>>>>> played by his trio as an instrumental. I was actually wondering if he'd
>>>>> try singing it straight (no pun intended) but he neatly side-stepped the
>>>>> issue.
>>>>> And that made me think...
>>>>>
>>>>> In the teens and 20s it seems there were any number of songs written for
>>>>> a woman vocalist but sung with lyrics intact by a male singer. And I
>>>>> couldn't think of one example, though I know I've heard a few.
>>>>> Can anyone think of any that were done properly, not as a parody? And no
>>>>> fair mentioning lyrics that change the gender of the singer, either!
>>>>>
>>>>> However, there's one really great example of that which I came across
>>>>>     Ă‚ recently. The tune is "Why Don't You Do Right?" and here's Peggy
>>>>> Lee's
>>>>> version:
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uTcw_A80Bo
>>>>> But the original lyric was written for a man to perform.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stumped as to who wrote and performed it?
>>>>> Go here:
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFBeEShBzHY
>>>>> Now that's a switch!
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyhow men doing women's songs and/or women doing men's tunes are the
>>>>> questions of the day.
>>>>> I look forward to your answers!
>>>>> Malcolm
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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