Recordings:
On album: N-005(a) (Cantares De Madre Susana Naidich Orqueta De Camara)
Track ID: 14715
Artist: RovIra, Eduardo
Artist: Naidich, Susana
Artist: Camara Orchestra
First line: Summertime, and the livin is easy,
Track comment: From "Porgy and Bess"
Language: English
Style: Operatic
On album: K-057(a) (Para Ustedes... Zivia Klein -- צביה קלײן )
Track ID: 14716
Artist: Tsesler, Shmuel -- צעסלער, שמואל
Artist: Klein, Zivia -- קלײן, צביה
Artist: Levy, Alberto
First line: Sumertseyt, un dos lebn iz gringer, fishlekh shpringen...
First line (Yiddish):זומערצײַט, און דאָס לעבן איז גרינגער, פֿישלעך שפּרינגן...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: From "Porgy & Bess"
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert
On album: R-016(g) (A..Caravan..Stars Featuring Seymour Rechtzeit & Molly Picon)
Track ID: 23637
Artist: Kressyn, Miriam -- קרעסן, מיריאַם
Artist: Rechtzeit, Seymour -- רעכצײַט, סימאָר
First line: Shlof mayn kind, got geshankt in zayn himl, in kholem...
First line:די אמתה ליבע, זי לעבט איבער אַלעס, זי איז אַ מתּונה פֿון גאָט,
Track comment: From the opera "Porgy & Bess"
Language: Yiddish/English
Recordings:
On album: F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)
Track ID: 28552
Artist: Venuti, Joe
Artist: Wall, Phil
First line: One two three four, five four three, one two three four, who are we
Track comment: Originally recorded May 31, 1933
Language: English
Style: Harmony
Length: 03:18
On album: G-057(c) (Funny It Doesn't Sound Jewish/ Compilation by Jack Gottlieb accompaning book with same title.)
Track ID: 31656
Artist: Paul Whiteman Orchestra
First line: We really think you ought to know that we were born right in the middle of...
Language: English
Style: Four Part Harmony/Pop/Orchestral/
Length: 3:10
Recording:
On album: G-057(c) (Funny It Doesn't Sound Jewish/ Compilation by Jack Gottlieb accompaning book with same title.)
Track ID: 31658
Artist: Fitzgerald, Ella
Artist: Larkins, Ellis
First line: My one and only, what am I goona do when you turn me down?
Language: English
Style: Cabaret
Length: 1:23
Recording:
On album: M-099(a) (An Evening With George Gershwin / Donna Morein, Mezzo Soprano/ Alexander Frey, Piano)
Track ID: 36590
Artist: Morein, Donna
Artist: Frey, Alexander
First line: You say either and I say eyther, you say neither and I say nyther,...
Language: English
Style: Concert/Pop/Art Song
Length: 2:40
Recording:
On album: M-099(a) (An Evening With George Gershwin / Donna Morein, Mezzo Soprano/ Alexander Frey, Piano)
Track ID: 36604
Artist: Morein, Donna
Artist: Frey, Alexander
First line: My ship has sails that are made of silk, the decks are trimmed with gold...
Language: English
Style: Concert/Pop/Art Song
Length: 4:38
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu