(slow jazz)
- The mating season episode of Shadowlands
takes place right after the second World War,
so I was looking for music that really evoked that era.
So we have some kind of "Teen Angel" type of stuff,
some early Rockabilly, but when I came
across this song called "My Buddy," I was really excited.
"My Buddy" was originally written in 1922,
and it's been covered by many, many famous artists,
from Frank Sinatra, his daughter, Nancy Sinatra,
Doris Day, Chet Baker, Bobby Darin, et cetera.
And it's a very unique song because it's a love song
and yet the term of endearment is "my buddy,"
which is kind of a unique term to use
from a man to a woman or a woman to a man,
so to me there was an immediate gay undertone to it.
- It's actually pretty special.
This song is quite special due to the history that it has.
I think it kind of had a resurgence in the '50s
but actually was written quite some time before that.
And now to be bringing it back today,
it's kind of interesting, and that's why we wanted
to take this song and, yes, kind of pay homage
to the time period when it was first written
and when it was relevant, but bring it back,
still paying homage to that, but with a bit of a twist
and our own maybe current take on it.
- When we arrived in the studio, I knew we were going
to do the piano and the bass together at the same time
because they play well together and we thought
it would save time, and especially if there's
no metronome or a drum, it's just nicer
to have that kind of feel as a rhythm session
of piano and base together, but to have the vocals
at the same time today, and together,
was a really nice surprise.
I was actually ... I thought it would be more complicated
to organize, but actually, Fred said it was actually
really simple.
But I'm glad to have done it because I think
it's going to be hard to go back now
and record in other ways because it's so real.
I miss that aspect, actually.
That's what I love about old recordings.
There's life to them, you know.
- Michael Daniel Murphy is the music director
for the song, and so he's really pulled together
this team of artists and musicians and the engineer
to create the song today.
To me, it's so exciting to come into the studio
and record music live.
Generally, for music in film and television,
we often license tracks from musicians
because that's just a more inexpensive way to do it,
but there's something that's very magical
about bring artists together and creating something live.
- I listened to a lot of versions, first of all,
and the approach to arranging song is Charlie also
sent us an idea of what the scene was about,
so that was really important to me,
and yeah, I just thought simplicity just in terms
of even our scheduling, our time.
So we were like, "Okay, let's simplify."
I play the piano.
So let's do piano.
We'll figure out the arrangement with the voices.
But I also ... the first time I actually heard this song
was Chet Baker playing the trumpet,
and I just felt like I wanted that kind of like ...
Especially with the possible war themes,
or the whole theme in writing letters,
or this whole duet aspect, I thought it would be nice
to bring a trumpet into it, because I think it really
creates kind of a classic vintage feel,
but also that era, and it's a beautiful instrument.
So we actually used the flugelhorn, piano,
and upright bass to just kind of ...
Without having a full percussion ensemble
or little drum kit, we'd have a bass
to give it some life there,
because I think there's a slow dance that happens
at this moment, so yeah.
- In terms of the lyrics of the song, they are unique
in that this was written in 1922, and we have lines
like, "The touch of your hand, the sound of your voice."
"I'm missing you, my buddy."
To me, hearing those words today, it's hard to imagine them
as not being some type of relationship.
Certainly a very special friendship.
- Well, strangely enough for me,
I had never heard this song,
so when I first heard it when Charlie gave me
the song to listen to, I thought it was quite clear ...
I mean possibly, because today listening to these lyrics
of a man saying "my buddy," it came off a bit strange.
I remember even getting on the phone with him,
and being like, "Was this clear to everyone else?"
It really does sound, again, taking it in our modern day,
that it's words of affection towards someone else.
Now, there are a lot of artists that have covered it.
Doris Day has covered it.
And coming from a woman, it was just a different feel.
So it is interesting.
I don't quite know the answer to that,
whether some people sang it ...
Millions and millions of people have heard this song,
and whatever way they interpreted it ...
I'm curious, actually, whether their interpretation
was back then as it is now, because I played this song
for quite a few people and they were like,
"Well, sounds pretty clear to me what it means now."
But again, back then where possibly being gay
and stuff like that was very taboo,
and not something you would hear on radio and media
and stuff like that, so whether there was an undercurrent
of that or whether it just went right over people's heads
and it wasn't even the message, I'm not quite sure.
But the relevance of today I think, for me,
when it first hit me, it really sounded quite clear,
especially when a man sang it, so, yeah.
- "My Buddy" was originally written in 1922,
which is almost 100 years ago, so I think it's pretty cool
what we're doing today, to be in Montreal,
in a recording studio, a bunch of artists
coming together to bring this story back to life,
one more time.
I mean, it's been recorded over and over
because it is a classic.
There's something special about this song
that rings true for people, that touches people,
and so I can only imagine what the original writers
would think if they knew that a century later,
in Montreal, a bunch of Canadians have gotten together
to record this song for a TV show.
I think it's pretty exciting.
(slow piano music)
(crickets)
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