Look up artist Cantor, Eddie
Name: Cantor, Eddie
Songs written or composed
Title: My Yiddishe Mammy
Author: Cantor, Eddie
Composer: Cantor, Eddie
Genre: Novelty/Humorous/Vaudeville
Subject: Mother/Place/South/Swanee/Dixie/Cotton
Additional song notes: Taakeoff on "My Yidishe Mame" and "Mammy"
Recordings:
On album: K-035(c) (Original Klezmer Jazz Band Jammin' on 7)
Track ID: 22799
Artist: Gross, Ken
Artist: Original Klezmer Jazz Band
Artist: Sapoznik, Henry -- סאַפּאָזניק, הענעך
Artist: Sokolow, Pete -- סוקולוב, פּסח
Artist: Levitt, David
Artist: Rubinstein, Danny
Artist: Horn, Shelly
Artist: Abruzzo, Tom
Artist: Chernet, Joel
First line: Down south, that's where all the cotton grows, down south where the Swannee…
Language: English
Style: Jazz
Length: 3:28
On album: K-035(d)2
Track ID: 32890
Artist: Abruzzo, Tom
Artist: Chernet, Joel
Artist: Gross, Ken
Artist: Original Klezmer Jazz Band
Artist: Sapoznik, Henry -- סאַפּאָזניק, הענעך
Artist: Sokolow, Pete -- סוקולוב, פּסח
Artist: Levitt, David
Artist: Rubinstein, Danny
Artist: Horn, Shelly
First line: Down south, that's where all the cotton grows, down south where the Swannee…
Language: English
Style: Jazz
Length: 3:28
Title: My Yiddisha Mammy
Author: Gerber, Alex
Author: Schwartz, Jean
Author: Cantor, Eddie
Genre: Vaudeville/Novelty/Humorous/Race/Parody
Subject: M other/South/Place/Bronx
Additional song notes: Parodies Al Jolson's "My Mammy"
Recording:
On album: J-035(a) (Jewface)
Track ID: 33538
Artist: Kaufman, Irving
First line: Down south where the Swanee River flows, down south, that's where all of the…
Language: English
Style: Vaudeville/Dialect
Length: 2:43
Other tracks with this artist
Title: If You Knew Susie (Eng)
On album: S-047(a) (Shalom Music of the Jewish People)
Track ID: 7066
Artist: De Sylva, Buddy
Artist: Cantor, Eddie
First line: I have got a sweetie known as Suzy, in the words of...
Title: The Argentines, The Portuguese...
On album: S-047(b) (Mazel Tov! More Music Of The Jewish People)
Track ID: 21430
Artist: Swanstrom/ Morgan
Artist: Cantor, Eddie
First line: Columbus discovered America in 1492, then came the English..
Track comment: "The Argentines, The Portuguese, And The Greeks"
Title: Lena From Palestina
Also known as: Palesteena
Author: Conrad, Con
Author: Robinson, J. Russel
Composer: Robinson, J. Russel
Composer: Robinson, J. Russel
Composer: Conrad, Con
Composer: Conrad, Con
Genre: Theatre/Vaudville/Dixieland/Jazz/Novelty
Subject: Lena/Fat Lady/Palestine/Courting/Concertina/Arab
Additional song notes: Same melody for entries titled "Chaim Popukal", "Unter Belzer -
Himlen", "Gereist Un Getroffen", and "Nokh A Bisl".
Related information in folder 584:- Comments: 1. Article by Charles A. Kennedy (Professor of Religion, Emeritus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University). Titled, "When Palestine Played the Palace: Vaudeville Interprets the Balfour Declaration".
Includes texts of novelty songs, Zionist songs, (all set in the Middle East), including text of "Lena From Palestina"
2. Article by Itzik Gottesman in Yiddish Forward of March 19-25, 2010, tiitled "Oyf Di Shpurn fun Lena Fun Palestina (on the track of Lena fun Palestina).
On album: F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)
Track ID: 28537
Artist: Cantor, Eddie
First line: In the Bronx of New YorkCity, there live a girl, she's not so pretty, Lena is
Track comment: Originally recorded Nov 1920, Emerson 10292/ Unknown Orchestra
Language: English
Style: Dixieland
Length: 02:35
Title: The Legend of Jewish Humor
Genre: Documentary/Performances
Subject: Humor/Culture/Jews/Comedians
On album: V0006
Track ID: 33828
Artist: Brice, Fanny
Artist: Cantor, Eddie
Artist: Marx Brothers
Artist: Caesar, Sid
Artist: Berle, Milton
Artist: Rivers, Joan
Artist: Lewis, Jerry
Artist: Waldoks, Moshe
Artist: King, Alan
Artist: Crystal, Billy
Artist: Bloomstein, Rex
Language: English
Length: 60:00
Title: From Shtetl to Swing / Alden Films (Video)
Genre: Documentary/Show Business
Subject: Immigration/Integration/Music/Acculturation/Music/Persona
On album: V0147 (From Shtetl to Swing / Alden Films (Video))
Track ID: 35728
Artist: Brice, Fanny
Artist: Calloway, Cab
Artist: Cantor, Eddie
Artist: Garland, Judy
Artist: Jolson, Al
Artist: Marx Brothers
Artist: Picon, Molly -- פּיקאָן, מאָלי
Artist: Schwartz, Maurice
Artist: Tucker, Sophie
Artist: Berlin, Irving
Artist: Fierstein, Harvey
Language: English
Style: Narrative/Performances/Spoken Word
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu