Roaring 1920s: Ben Bernie & His Orch. - My Buddy, 1922
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Channel: 240252 · 2014 · Music
My Buddy (Donaldson - Kahn) – Ben Bernie & His Orchestra, Vocalion 1922 (USA; accoustical rec.) NOTE: The making of this film has its little history. First, for me – as poor English language speaker – the term “buddy” has always meant “a colleague” – two boys, schoolmates, calling each other this way. So, having this in mind, I started collecting the appropriate photographs for this movie. However, when I came across the original sheet notes of this song – presenting a LADY with a man – suddenly all my preparations lost their meaning. Assuming, that the English phrase "my buddy" does not so much refer to the situation of two men-friends, as it refers rather to male-female relationship, I gave up schoolboys and started picking up photographs of girls being embraced by their men. Finally, I phoned my American friend to ask about the whole thing, and he caused the complete confusion in my mind telling me, that today you’d hardly find any American woman calling her man a “buddy”. All the mess with genders had to find, ofcourse, a reflection in the kind of my today’s slideshow… And just think: all that - because of the lack of grammatical gender esp. in nouns in the modern English!
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