Look up artist Gorney, Jay


Name: Gorney, Jay

Songs written or composed


Title: Brother Can You Spare A Dime
Also known as: Parnose (Berk)
Author: Harburg, Yip
Composer: Gorney, Jay
Subject: Depression

Recordings:


On album: W-024(a) (Paved With Gold Starring Gary & Janice Waldman)
Track ID: 23700
Vocal Waldman, Gary
Vocal Waldman, Janice
Artist: Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra
Piano/Conductor/Arranger Delfin, Jon
First line: They used to tell me I was building a dream,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Sung with "Vi Nemt Men Parnuse - From "Paved With Gold"
Language: English

On album: B-069(B) (Coming of Age/ Ballad of a Beatnik Bubbie/ Phyllis Berk)
Track ID: 35162
Vocal Berk, Phyllis
Language: Yiddish

On album: G-013(c) (The Golden Land, a joyous new musical Original Cast Album)
Track ID: 2615
Vocal Berk, Phyllis
Artist: Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra
Orchestration Sokolow, Pete -- סוקולוב, פּסח
First line: They used to tell me I was building a dream,
Language: English

On album: R-042(a) (Eleanor Reissa Going Home Gems of Yiddish Song)
Track ID: 2616
Vocal Reissa, Eleanor
Piano Mlotek, Zalmen -- מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
First line: They used to tell me I was building a dream,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Vu Nemt Men Parnose/ Brother, Can You Spare A Dime
Language: Yiddish

Other tracks with this artist


Title: Finf Sent -- פֿינף סענט
Genre: Theater
On album: S-031(b) (Mary Soreanu Di Shikerte -- מערי סאָריאַנו די שיכּורטע)
Track ID: 5203
Author Harburg, E. Y./Alperin, Yankl, Yid -- אַלפּערין, יענקל, ייַדיש
Composer Gorney, Jay
Artist Soreanu, Miri -- סוריאנו, מירי
Arranger Lustig, Alexander -- לוסטיג, אַלעקסאַנדער
First line: Dos ales iz a mol geven, ven ikh bin nokh yung geven,
First line:דאָס אַלעס איז אַ מאָל דעװען, װען איך בין יונג דעװען,
Track comment: From "Di Shikerte"

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