Sheet music:
Folder: 1212
Arranger: Richard Gendelman
Arranged for: Bb Clarinet
Texts: Music Only
Provenance: Gendelman Gift
Notes: Manuscript / With Elegie by J. Massenet
Recordings:
On album: F-023(a) (Irina Fogelson Sings: Yiddish Hebrew Russian English)
Track ID: 11553
Artist: Fogelson, Irena
Artist: Shalit, Vladimir
Artist: Batitsky, Pavel
First line: I was...when you came my way, I still bless the day,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Russian/English
On album: H-009(c) (Drora Havkin Israeli Songs and Ballads of Yesteryear -- שירי רחוב דרורה חבקין )
Track ID: 11547
Artist: Havkin, Drora -- חבקין, דרורה
First line: Hitahavti bakh, ki aynayim lakh, panasay khasmal veraglay...
First line (Hebrew):התאהבתי בך,כי עינים לך, פנסי חשמל, ורגלי גמל, כי קולך הערב,
Track comment: Hebrew version of "Ochi Chyornye"
Language: Hebrew
Style: Folk
On album: B-008(b) (Russia Stanley Black London Festival Orchestra & Chorus)
Track ID: 11548
Artist: London Festival Orch & Chorus
Artist: Black, Stanley
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Recorded under "Dark Eyes"
Style: Instrumental
On album: D-003(b) (Russian Melodies Emil Decameron & His Orchestra)
Track ID: 11549
Artist: Decameron, Emil & Orch
Track comment: Recorded under "Dark Eyes"
Style: Instrumental
On album: S-080(a) (Sweet Dreams (Sheyne Chalomes) For Guitars and Flutes -- שײנע חלומות )
Track ID: 11550
Artist: Schonbrun, Bluma & Bill Bridges
Artist: Schonbrun, B.& B. Bridges, arr
Track comment: For Guitar & Flute
Style: Instrumental
On album: P-023(a) (Boris Pevsner)
Track ID: 11551
Artist: Pevsner, Boris
Language: Russian
On album: B-028(d) (The Barry Sisters Sing)
Track ID: 11552
Artist: Barry Sisters -- שװעסטער באַרי
Artist: Ellstein, Abe -- עלשטײַן, אײב
First line: I once had a dream, of a love supreme, then you came my way,
Language: Russian/English
On album: G-006(k) (Russk'ie P'esn'i Romances Populaires Russes..par Sarah Gorby)
Track ID: 18900
Artist: Gorby, Sarah -- גאָרבי, שׂרה
Artist: Arlovsky, Nicholas.
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Recorded under "Otchy Tchornyi"
Language: Russian
On album: J-023(a) (Elmer Jaroka The World of Eastern Europe)
Track ID: 19860
Artist: Jaroka, Elmer Ensemble
Track comment: Russian - Black Eyes
Style: Instrumental
On album: M-034(e) (The Mazeltones Latkes & Lattes)
Track ID: 21366
Artist: Marcus, Wendy
Artist: Mazeltones
Artist: Robbins, Carol
First line: I once had a dream, of a love supreme, then you came my way,
Language: Russian/English
On album: O-007(d) (The Old World Folk Band Crossing New Borders)
Track ID: 25735
Artist: Krashunskaya, Dina
Artist: Old World Folk Band
First line: Otchi tchorni, otchi zhguchiye, otchi strasniye y prikrasnye
Track comment: Dark eyes, so passionate and beautiful - how do I love you
Language: Russian
On album: B-088(b) (Bobby Block Sings Yiddish / The Songs From His Youth)
Track ID: 33525
Artist: Block, Bobby
Artist: Kravitz, Bernie
Artist: Sperell, Chic
First line: I once had a dream, of a love supreme, then you came my way,
Language: English
Style: Pop/Waltz/Swing
Length: 2:28
On album: G-108(a) (Ed Goldberg and the Odessa Klezmer Band/ Who Stole the Kishka? -- אָרקקעסטער קלעזמער)
Track ID: 36246
Artist: Odessa Klezmer Band
Artist: Lesniak, John
Artist: Mehlman, Bob
Artist: Ionata, Dennis
Artist: Goldberg, Barbara
Artist: Pecchioli, Joel
Artist: Goldberg, Ed
Style: Instrumental/Klezmer
Length: 3:07
On album: xB-008(b)
Track ID: 2896
Artist: London Festival Orch & Chorus
Artist: Black, Stanley
Track comment: Recorded under "Dark Eyes"
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