Look up artist Ellman, Ziggy


Name: Ellman, Ziggy

Songs written or composed


Title: And The Angels Sing
Also known as: Freylekh In Swing
Author: Mercer, Johnny
Composer: Ellman, Ziggy
Genre: Swing/Pop
Subject: Love/Angels/Song/Music/Water/Moonlight
Song Comment: Adaption of "Der Shtiller Bulgar"
Origin: Sheetmusic 1210
Music: Sheetmusic 1210

Sheet music:


Folder: 1210
Arranged for: Voice/Piano
Texts: English
Publisher: Warner Brothers Publications, Inc
Publisher address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, NY
Date: 1939
Provenance: Gendelman Gift
First line: We meet and the angels sing the sweetist song I ever heard,

Folder: 1185
Arranger: Richard Gendelman
Arranged for: bB Key of D Major
Texts: Music only
Provenance: Gendelman Gift
Notes: Manuscript / also for the trumpet and clarinet in Bb

Recordings:


On album: O-007(c) (Old World Folk Band In Concert)
Track ID: 18431
Artist: Old World Folk Band
Track comment: Recorded under "Ziggy's Freylekh (The Angels Sing Theme")
Style: Instrumental/Swing

On album: B-060(a) (Baltimore Klezmer Orchestra)
Track ID: 19614
Artist: Baltimore Klezmer Orch
Artist: Bussey, Aaron
First line: We meet, and the angels sing, the angels sing the sweetest..
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: With Der Shtiler Bulgar (Instr) Bregman/Vocco Cahn credited as "Composer"
Language: English
Style: Swing

On album: G-055(a) (Radio Compilation by David Goldenberg 1930-1960)
Track ID: 20568
Artist: Ziggy Elman Orchestra
Artist: Ellman, Ziggy
Track comment: Recorded Dec 28, 1938
Style: Instrumental/Swing

On album: K-029(g) (The Klezmer Conservatory Band Thirteenth Anniversary Album)
Track ID: 21247
Artist: Guttman, James
Artist: Klezmer Conservatory Band
Artist: Netsky, Hankus
Style: Instrumental/Swing

On album: F-013(h) (Giora Feidman To You -- גיורא פיידמן)
Track ID: 21309
Artist: Fiedman, Giora, clarinet -- פיידמן, גיורא, קלרמית
Artist: Zorman, M.
Artist: Ellman, Ziggy
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Recorded under "Freylekh"
Style: Instrumental/Swing/Klezmer

On album: M-032(d) (Maxwell Street Klezmer Band You Should Be So Lucky)
Track ID: 24389
Artist: Fishman, Lisa
Artist: Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
Artist: Braun, Ivo, trumpet
First line: We meet, and the angels sing, the angels sing the sweetest..
Track comment: Incorporates "Der Shtiller Bulgar"/ Bregman/Vocco/ Cahn credited as "Composer"
Language: English
Style: Swing/Klezmer

On album: U-004(a) (Uptown Klezmer Ashnelerando)
Track ID: 25352
Artist: Uptown Klezmer
Style: Instrumental/Swing/Klezmer

On album: K-084(a) (Bruce Kaminsky's Klezmer Jazz Ensemble/ And The Angels Swing/ DBK Jazz)
Track ID: 27065
Artist: Kaminsky, Bruce Klezmer Jazz Ensem
Track comment: Phila Based Group
Style: Instrumental/Klezmer/Jazz/Modern

On album: F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)
Track ID: 28549
Artist: Bailey, Mildred
Artist: Mildred Bailey Orchestra
Artist: Shavers, Charlie
Artist: Bailey, Buster
Artist: Procope, Russell
Artist: Kyle, Billy
Artist: Kirby, John
Artist: O'Neill, Spencer
First line: We meet, and the angels sing, the angeles sing the sweetest song I ever heard
Track comment: Originally recorded Apr 24, 1939, Vocalion 4815
Language: English
Style: Swing

On album: K-035(d)1
Track ID: 32871
Artist: Original Klezmer Jazz Band
Artist: Sokolow, Pete -- סוקולוב, פּסח
Artist: Sapoznik, Henry -- סאַפּאָזניק, הענעך
Artist: Gross, Ken
Artist: Chernet, Joel
Artist: Abruzzo, Tom
Style: Klezmer/Instrumental/Swing
Length: 4:38

On album: M-034(a) (The Mazeltones ODESSA, Washington)
Track ID: 1296
Artist: Mazeltones
Artist: Marcus, Wendy
First line: We meet, and the angels sing, the angels sing the sweetest..
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Interpolated with "Der Shtiler Bulgar".
Language: English
Style: Swing

On album: B-002(c) (Jan Bart Sings Yinglish)
Track ID: 1297
Artist: Bart, Jan
Artist: Tarras, Dave -- טאַראַס, דײװ
Artist: Gunther, William
First line: We meet, and the angels sing, the angels sing the sweetest..
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Bregman/ Cocco/ Cahn credited as "Composer"
Language: English
Style: Swing

On album: G-013(d)5 (Song of the Golden Land Lectures 09 and 10)
Track ID: 1298
Artist: Goodman, Benny Orchestra
Artist: Ellman, Ziggy
Artist: Tilton, Martha
First line: You smiled, and the angels sing, and though its just a...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Lecture 10, Song of the Golden Land, Simkhas
Language: English
Style: Swing

On album: S-068(a) (Shirim Klezmer Orchestra ...of angels and horseradish)
Track ID: 1299
Artist: Shirim Klezmer Orchestra
Artist: Gerut, Rosalie & Betty Silberman
First line: We meet, and the angels sing, the angels sing the sweetest..
Language: English
Style: Swing

On album: O-007(a) (The Old World Folk Band II Dancing In The Aisles -- קלעזמער )
Track ID: 1300
Artist: Leviton, Susan
Artist: Old World Folk Band
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: English
Style: Swing

On album: B-008(a) (Music Of A People Stanley Black Conducting London ...)
Track ID: 1301
Artist: London Festival Orch & Chorus
Artist: Black, Stanley
First line: We meet, and the angels sing, the angels sing the sweetest..
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Style: Instrumental/Swing

On album: S-047(a) (Shalom Music of the Jewish People)
Track ID: 1303
Artist: Ziggy Elman Orchestra
Artist: Tilton, Martha
Artist: Ellman, Ziggy
Track comment: Also known as "Freilch In Swing" (Based on "Shtiler Bulgar")
Style: Instrumental/Swing

On album: F-013(f) (Giora Feidman The Magic Of The Klezmer)
Track ID: 1304
Artist: Feidman, G., Clarinet & Ensemble -- פיידמן, גיורא, קלאַרנעט מיט אַנסאַמבל
Track comment: Melodies Rhapsody In Blue/ Ain't Necessarily So/ Summertime
Style: Instrumental

On album: K-035(a) (The Original Klezmer Jazz Band)
Track ID: 5386
Artist: Bragin, Ted
Artist: Salzberg, Si
Artist: Original Klezmer Jazz Band
Artist: Sokolow, Pete -- סוקולוב, פּסח
Artist: Sapoznik, Henry -- סאַפּאָזניק, הענעך
Artist: Gross, Ken
Artist: Chernet, Joel
Artist: Abruzzo, Tom
Artist: Original Klezmer Jazz Band
Style: Klezmer/Instrumental/Swing
Length: 4:38

Other tracks with this artist


Title: Beygelekh -- בײגעלעך
Also known as: Bublitshki
Genre: Folk/Lament
Subject: Bagels/Rolls/Street Vendor/Occupation/Poverty
Origin: Alb G-035(b)/Alb B-007(c)/
Transliteration: Alb K-007(b)/Alb B-007(c)/
Translation: Alb B-007(c)/
On album: G-055(a) (Radio Compilation by David Goldenberg 1930-1960)
Track ID: 20562
Artist: Ellman, Ziggy
First line: Es rikt zikh un di nakht, ikh shtey a kranker un trakht,
First line:עס ריקט זיך אָן די נאַכט, איך שטײ אַ קראַנקער און טראכט,
Track comment: Recorded December 28, 1938
Style: Instrumental

Title: Bereles Sher -- בערעלעס שער
Composer: Farber, Nat
Composer: Gill, Benny
Genre: Klezmer/Novelty/Instrumental
On album: K-022(g) (Simcha Time Mickey Katz Plays Music For Weddings Bar Mitz..)
Track ID: 22340
Artist: Mickey Katz Orchestra
Artist: Weiss, Sam
Artist: Breen, Larry
Artist: Farber, Nat
Artist: Zentner, Sy
Artist: Katz, Mickey
Artist: Mickey Katz Orchestra
Artist: Klein, Emmanuel
Artist: Ellman, Ziggy
Style: Instrumental/Klezmer/Sher

Title: Hava Nagila (Nathanson) -- הבה נגילה
Also known as: Kene Hora (Hava Nagila)
Also known as: Living With the H Tune
Author: Nathanson, Moshe
Genre: Folk/Hora
Subject: Dance/Celebration/Joy
Song Comment: See Page 130 for extended info on the song
Origin: Coopersmith NJS 111/Nath 15/Alb S-033(a)/Alb Z-013(a)/Alb N-014(a)
Transliteration: Alb N-014(a)/Coopersmith NJS 111/Alb N-014(b)/Alb S-033(a)/Alb K-007(a)
Translation: Coopersmith NJS 111/Alb S-033(a)/Alb Z-013(a)/Alb N-014(b)/Alb B-032(a)
Music: Coopersmith NJS 111/Nath 15/Pasternak BHN 130/Metro Scher 26
Additional song notes: Originally Chassidic Sadigurer (Bukovina, Poland) nigun. Text - claimed by Idelsohn, but text usually attributed to Moshe - Nathanson. See Pasternak's "Beyond Hava Nagila" p 130: Nulman, p - 102.

Related information in folder 832:On album: K-022(g) (Simcha Time Mickey Katz Plays Music For Weddings Bar Mitz..)
Track ID: 22343
Artist: Klein, Emmanuel
Artist: Mickey Katz Orchestra
Artist: Katz, Mickey
Artist: Zentner, Sy
Artist: Farber, Nat
Artist: Breen, Larry
Artist: Weiss, Sam
Artist: Ellman, Ziggy
Track comment: Recorded Jan 19, 1953
Style: Instrumental/Novelty

Title: Eli Eli (Sandler) -- אלי אלי (סאַנדלער)
Author: Sandler, Jacob Koppel -- סאַנדלער, יעקב קאָפּעל
Composer: Sandler, Jacob Koppel -- סאַנדלער, יעקב קאָפּעל
Genre: Theatre/Lament/Religious
Subject: Plea/Persecution/Faith/Torture/Abandonment/Question
Origin: ML PYS 220/Ephemera 598/Metro Scher 31
Transliteration: Ausabel 676/Alb K-047(a)/ML PYS 220/Alb K-047(a)/Alb P-028(a)/L-048(a)
Translation: Alb L-048(a)/Ausubel Folk 676/Alb K-047(a)/Alb R-009(b)/Vorbei 233
Music: Ausubel Folk 676/ML PYS 221/Metro Scher 31
Additional song notes: Cited in Nulman 74 Written For the play "Brokhe, Oder - DerYidisher Kenig Fun Poyln Oyf Eyn Nakht. - 1896. In Sheetmusic # 58 there are indications that the song was heard in various parts of Europe as a folk song, but then claimed by Sandler and Tomoshevsky because it was sung in their operetta "Brokha or The Jewish King of Poland for a Night". See Heskes entry 1194. Also transliteration and translation Published in Gottlieb 290

Related information in folder 991:On album: L-047(a) (L'Chaim Music of the Jewish People)
Track ID: 26529
Artist: Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Artist: Ellman, Ziggy
First line: Eli, Eli lomo azavtoni? In fayer un flam hot men undz...
First line:אלי, אלי, למה עזבֿתּני? (2) אין פֿײַער און פֿלאַם האָט מען אונדז..
Track comment: Kenig Fun Poyln Oyf Eyn Nakht. - 1896 /Recorded 1942
Style: Instrumental

Title: Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn -- בײַ מיר ביסטו שײן (ענגליש)
Author: Jacobs, Jacob -- זשאַקאָבס, זשאַקאָב
Author: Cahn, Sammy
Author: Chapin, Harry
Composer: Secunda, Sholom -- סעקונדאַ, שלום
Genre: Theatre/American/Pop/Swing
Subject: Love/Beauty/Appearance
Origin: GYF 40/Alb F-024(e)/Alb K-029(e)/Alb G-035(b)
Transliteration: Estella 4/Alb K-007(a)/GYF 43/Alb K-059(d)/
Translation: GYF 43/
Music: Estalla 4/GYF 41/
On album: G-072(a) (Benny Goodman: Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn -- בעני גוטמאַן: בײַ מיר ביסטו שײן)
Track ID: 30992
Artist: Goodman, Benny
Artist: Wilson, Teddy
Artist: Hampton, Lionel
Artist: Krupa, Gene
Artist: Tilton, Martha
Artist: Ellman, Ziggy
First line: Bay mir bistu shayn, please let me explain, bay mir bistu shayn means that…
Track comment: Recorded December 1937, commercial release sides "A" and "B"
Language: Yiddish/English
Style: Swing/Klezmer

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