Look up artist Wilder, Alec
Name: Wilder, Alec
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Title: Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen -- ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען
Also known as: Shlof Mayn Kind Shlof
Author: Goldfaden, Avrom -- גאָלדפֿאַדען, אַבֿרהם
Composer: Goldfaden, Avrom -- גאָלדפֿאַדען, אַבֿרהם
Genre: Folk/Theatre/Lullaby/Viglid
Subject: Mother/Son/Metaphor/Occupation/Future/Raisens/Almonds
Song Comment: From the operetta "Shulamis"
Origin: ML MTAG 04/Alb K-014(a)/GYF 7/Alb L-023(a)/Alb C-015(a)/Vinkov 4 188/Sh Sh 37
Transliteration: ML MTAG 04/GYF 06/Alb D-004(k)/Alb C-015(a)/Alb R-001(a)/Alb L-023(a)
Translation: Alb L-023(a)/Bikel 99/GYF 7/Alb K-014(a)/Alb O-001(a)/Alb R-001(a)Sh Sh 36
Music: ML MTAG 05/Bikel 99/Vinkov 4 188/Metro Scher 20
Additional song notes: See Gottlieb, p. 43-44 for relationship to Berlin's "Blue Skies"
See Ephemera 80 for singable English adapation by Edith Finell.
Related information in folder 189:- Comments: 1Essayin the magazine "Judiasm" by Marvin Kaplan titled "Raisins and Almonds" Goldfaden's Glory". Analayzes song text and also provides biographical information.
2. Transliteration and singable Yiddish translation by Edith Finell.
3. Article in Yiddish Forverts of June 17-23, 2011 by Yitzkhak Ludan (Israel) titled "Di Vizie Fun "Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen'" (The Vision of Raisens and Almonds". An analysis of the present political situation in the Middle East with a pessimistic conclusion that the implied security and prosperity in the song Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen will not be realized for some time to come.
On album: Y-018(b) (Where Dreams Are Born Jewish Lullabies)
Track ID: 19112
Artist: Wilder, Alec
Artist: Rosenthal, Margie & Ilene Safyan
First line: To my little one's cradle in the night, comes a new goat...
First line:אין דעם בית־המקדש, אין אַ װינקל־חדר, זיצט די אַלמנה בת־ציון….
Track comment: From the operetta "Shulamis"
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Abi Gezunt (Nemo, American Swing)
Also known as: A Bee Gezindt
Author: Nemo
Composer: Nemo
Genre: Novelty/Swing
Subject: Hep Cat/Square
On album: F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)
Track ID: 28557
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Artist: Wilder, Alec
First line: I never knew a hep cat from a square, and I was called a bringdown everywhere,
Track comment: Originally recorded Jan 25, 1940, Columbia 35409/ Recorded as "A Bee Gezind"
Language: English
Style: Swing/Pop/Big Band
Length: 02:58
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu