Nancy Sinatra in 1967. Photo: David Redfern/Redferns
Nancy Sinatra’s efficiency of a ballad from the Twenties is among the many newest clips to be shared from the archives of The Ed Sullivan Show. The tune is “My Buddy,” as featured on the February 26, 1967 version of the celebrated and long-running TV selection collection, simply after she had included it on her Sugar album.
As Sullivan says in his introduction, Sinatra was simply again from entertaining the troops in Vietnam, the place “My Buddy” was probably the most requested tune by “our boys.” That week’s present additionally featured appearances by Xavier Cugat and Henny Youngman; it was the newest in a substantial variety of bookings within the collection for Sinatra, who could be again on the invoice inside a few months along with her frequent recording accomplice Lee Hazlewood. Sinatra had made her large disc breakthrough early in 1966 when “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” soared to No.1 within the US.
She had additional Top 10 singles that 12 months with “How Does That Grab You, Darlin’?” and “Sugar Town,” and inside three weeks of this look on Sullivan, she was on her means again to No.1 along with her well-known duet with father Frank on “Somethin’ Stupid.”
The music for “My Buddy” was written by Walter Donaldson, with lyrics by Gus Kahn. The tune was printed in 1922, and first recorded that 12 months by Canadian tenor Henry Burr. Versions swiftly adopted that 12 months by Billy Burton and Arthur Fields, and in 1923 by Ambrose and His Embassy Club Orchestra and by Walter Scanlan. The tune grew to become particularly fashionable throughout World War II, notably in a 1942 studying by Sammy Kaye, credited on disc as Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye, with Tommy Ryan and Chorus.
It was additionally launched by Harry James in 1939 (in a model that chimes with Nancy’s, because the lead vocal was by her father), Bing Crosby in 1941, and Alvino Rey and his Orchestra in 1942. A string of Nineteen Fifties interpretations included these by Doris Day, Eddie Fisher, Teresa Brewer, Chet Baker, and the Mills Brothers. Many will likely be acquainted with the 1959 rendition by the Ray Charles Singers, on the LP In The Evening By The Moonlight. Bobby Darin and Lou Rawls have been amongst these to sort out “My Buddy” within the Nineteen Sixties, and it went on to draw the eye of Dr. John, Lena Horne, Amy Grant, and lots of extra.
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