[78-L] Gender benders and publishers

[David Lennick]

One of the classics was Bing singing "There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the 
Salt of my Tears", but this was recorded at a time when dance bands didn't have 
female vocalists. The women who did record were blues singers or stage stars.

dl


On 3/17/2019 11:05 PM, Rodger J Holtin wrote:
> At least twice over the years that I've been on 78-L the subject of a
> particular gender performer singing a song obviously meant for the opposite
> gender has come up.
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> The entries have included the Frank Bessinger vocal on I'd Rather Be the
> Girl In Your Arms by the Goldkette band and Dinah Shore singing Chloe.
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> I seem to recall an exchange wherein somebody cited that this was because of
> copyright holders not allowing even minor changes.  ASCAP was still new and
> they were flexing their muscles rather than allow changes that might provide
> an opening for somebody to make said changes and then copyright it as
> theirs.
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> If anybody has any documentation on that facet of the story, I'd like to
> share that with the theatre director at my alma mater.
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> The just put on a little musical revue with this kind of stuff drawn from
> Broadway shows, and after the show out in the parking lot I mentioned to him
> that what they thought was funny or edgy was an old practice, and cited the
> above examples.  He was immediately interested so I'll send him a few mp3s
> of this kind of stuff.
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> The depths of the brain tell me this was discussed at some length by a
> writer who was explaining to youngsters why the Goldkette record sounded so
> strange to our ears today (this was 1960s or 1970s.)  Jazz book?  Liner
> notes?  Anybody remember anything like this?  Any help appreciated.
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