David played a beautifully sung version of The Party’s Over from Sammy Davis jr, but it was spoilt for me by the changing of “him” to “her” in the lyric, as if it were being sung to a man. This destroyed the dim/him rhyme that is central to the song. The line “Take off your makeup” was left unaltered, so the song, as sung, made no sense at all. What a shame.
Many otherwise great readings of songs have been spoilt by careless attempts to change the sex of the characters. The ultimate example must be Have You Met “Sir” Jones, from Ella Fitzgerald on her Rodgers and Hart Songbook. According to Norman Granz in this Downbeat article it was Ella herself who insisted on it.
