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Title: I Dream of Jeanie
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 6972
Author/Composer Foster, Stephen
Artist Jolson, Al
First line: I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair, born like a...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: A Khazndl Af Shabos -- אַ חזנדל אױף שבּת
Also known as: A Khazn Oyf Shabos
Also known as: A Khazndl Oyf Shabes
Genre: Folk/Humorous
Subject: Khazunim/Cantors/Audition/Occupation/Shtetl
Origin: ML MTAG 108/Alb B-007(b)/Alb J-020(b)/Vinkov 3 4/Silverman YSB 77
Transliteration: ML MTAG 108/Alb J-020(b)/Alb B-007(b)/Vinkov 3 4/CD A-005(e)/Silverman YSB 77
Translation: Silverman YSB 76/Alb B-007(b)/Alb J-020(b)/Vinkov 3 4/A-005(e)
Music: ML MTAG 108/Vinkov 3 4/Silverman YSB 76
Additional song notes: Tansliteration and Translation also published in Gottlieb p. 22
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 320
Artist Jolson, Al
Artist Bring, Lou, Orch Cond
First line: Iz gekomen tsuforn a khazn in a kleyn shtetele davenen a...
First line (Yiddish):איז געקומען צו פֿאָרן אַ חזן אין אַ קלײן שטעטעלע דאַװענען אַ שבּת,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Yiddish
Title: Beautiful Dreamer
Author: Foster, Stephen
Composer: Foster, Stephen
Genre: Folk/American
Subject: Courtship/Dreamer/Melody/Cares/Waken
Related information in folder 699:On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
- Comments: 1. Text from the internet
Track ID: 2163
Author/Composer Foster, Stephen
Artist Jolson, Al
First line: Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me, starlight and dewdrops...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: English
Title: De Camptown Races (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 2947
Author/Composer Foster, Stephen
Artist Jolson, Al
First line: Oh, de Camptown ladies sing dis song, do da, do da,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Israel (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 7518
Composer Russell, Benee
Artist Rady, Simon, chorus dir
Author/Artist Jolson, Al
First line: Lift your voice, let us rejoice. Our dream was not in vain.
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Melody based on "Khusn, Kale, Mazltov"
Title: Hatikva -- התקוה
Author: Imber, Naftali Herz -- אימבּר, נפתלי ה.
Genre: Anthem/Zionist
Subject: Hope
Song Comment: Yiddish Translation Ephemera 455
Origin: Netzer 5/Alb G-056(b)/Coopersmith SOZ 229/Metro Scher 31/Metro Album 36
Transliteration: Netzer 5/Alb G-056(b)/Alb S-092(a)/Alb B-067(a)/Vorbei 426/Metro Scher 28/
Translation: Alb B-067(a)/Alb J-007(a)/Alb S-092(a)/Vorbei 426/Binder 40
Music: Netzer 5/Coopersmith SOZ 229/Metro Scher 28/Binder 40/
Additional song notes: Remember that text changed after establishment of the State of - Israel. See Heskes 1, index for various entries respecting sheet - musi/ See also Vorbei 211 and 426 for history of the song. One Samuel Cohen set the text to a Moldavian Melody, "Carul ca Boi" (The Wagon and the Ox).
Related information in folder 410:On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
- Document type: Article
Author: Isacaar Fater
Publisher: Yiddish Forward
Date: 1/5/2001
Comments: Article titled, "Vi Azoy Hatikva Iz Gevorn Der Himen Fun Folk Un Medina".- Document type: Text
Author: Berele Chagy
Comments: 2. Yiddish adaptation by Berele Chagy published in Yiddishe Folks Lieder, Berlin, 1918.
Track ID: 6188
Artist Jolson, Al
Artist Rady, Simon, choral dir
First line: Kol od balevav penima, Nefesh yehudi homiya, Ulfa'atey...
First line:כּל עוֹד בּלבב פּנימה, נפש יהוּדי הוֹמיה. וּלפאתי מזרח קדימה עין...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: "So long as still within our breasts, The Jewish heart..."
Title: In Our House (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 7412
Composer Russell, Benee
Author Jolson, Al / Martin Fried
Artist Jolson, Al
Artist Stoloff, Morris, orch dir
First line: In our we greet the morning sun, in our house we have our...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Kol Nidre -- כּל נדרי
Genre: Religious/Liturgical/Yom Kipur
Subject: Vows
Origin: Alb B-033(i)
Translation: Alb R-009(b)/Alb B-026(b)/Alb B-033(b)/V0121
Related information in folder 779:On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
- Comments: 1. English Translation
Track ID: 8576
Artist Jolson, Al
Artist Bring, Lou, dir choir and orch
First line (Hebrew):כּל נדרי ואסרי וחרמי וקוֹנמי וכנוּיי ןקנוּסי וּשבוּעוֹת דנדרנא
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Hebrew
Title: Massa's In De Cold, Cold Ground
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 9818
Author/Composer Foster, Stephen
Artist Jolson, Al
First line: Round de meadows am a ringin, de old...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Old Folks At Home (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 11427
Author/Composer Foster, Stephen
Artist Jolson, Al
First line: All round de little farm I wandered when I was young,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: My Old Kentucky Home (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 10842
Author/Composer Foster, Stephen
Artist Jolson, Al
First line: The sun shines bright in de old kentucky home, tis summer...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Oh Susannah (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 11409
Author/Composer Foster, Stephen
Artist Jolson, Al
First line: Oh, I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee, I gwine...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Old Black Joe (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 11423
Author/Composer Foster, Stephen
Artist Jolson, Al
First line: Gone are de days when my heart was young and gay,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Title: Remember Mother's Day (Eng)
On album: J-007(a) (The Jolson Story Memories)
Track ID: 12711
Author Violinsky, Solly
Composer Ryan, Ben
Artist Jolson, Al
Artist Schoen, Vic, orch and choral dir
Author Akst, Harry
First line: There are many Sundays in the year, but the best one comes..
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu