Recordings:
On album: W-024(a) (Paved With Gold Starring Gary & Janice Waldman)
Track ID: 23685
Vocal/English Adaptation Waldman, Gary
Composer Lowenworth, Sam
Vocal/English Adaptation Waldman, Janice
Artist: Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra
Piano/Conductor Delfin, Jon
First line: Sitting here, its three am, and we can't get to sleep,
First line:סטיִם, סטיִם סטיִם, ס'איז קאַלט װי און אַ קבֿק, סטיִם, סטיִם סטיִם...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: From "Paved With Gold"
Language: Yiddish/English
On album: N-020(a) (Honey Novick Rising Toward the Seraphim)
Track ID: 23805
Author/Composer Lowenworth, Sam
Vocal Novick, Honey
Piano Goldhamer, Brahm, piano
Percussion Sacks, Richard M., percussion
First line: Shney, es vet bald faln, in der shtot es vert a kelt,
First line (Yiddish):שנײ, עס װעט באַלד פֿאַלן, אין דער שטאָט עס װערט אַ קעלט,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Yiddish
Recordings:
On album: G-013(c) (The Golden Land, a joyous new musical Original Cast Album)
Track ID: 16252
Author Lowenworth, Sam
Composer Rumshinsky, Yosef -- רומשינסקי, יאָסף
Vocalist Golden Land Company
Artist: Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra
Orchestration Sokolow, Pete -- סוקולוב, פּסח
First line: Vatch your step, all the people shout, Vatch your step,
Track comment: English by Zalman Molek, Moishe Rosenfeld and Jacques Levy.
On album: K-029(f) (The Klezmer Conservatory Band Old World Beat)
Track ID: 16253
Author Lowenworth, Sam / Judy Bressler
Composer Rumshinsky, Yosef -- רומשינסקי, יאָסף
Artist: Klezmer Conservatory Band
Vocal Bressler, Judy
Conductor Netsky, Hankus
First line: Amerika, a land nur fun hurry up, eyner loyft in biznes,
First line:אַמעריקאַ, אַ לאַנד נור פֿון "הורי אָפּ, אײנער לױפֿט אין "בּיזנעס",
Track comment: Additional verses by Judy Bressler
On album: W-024(a) (Paved With Gold Starring Gary & Janice Waldman)
Track ID: 23678
Vocal Waldman, Gary
Author Lowenworth, Sam
Composer Rumshinsky, Yosef -- רומשינסקי, יאָסף
Vocal Waldman, Janice
Artist: Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra
Piano/Conductor Delfin, Jon
First line: Vatch your step, all the people shout, Vatch your step,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: From "Paved With Gold" originally from musical Berele Tremp
On album: C-035(b) (Adrianne Cooper & Zalmen Mlotek/An Afternoon Of Jewish Music)
Track ID: 25685
Author Lowenworth, Sam
Composer Rumshinsky, Yosef -- רומשינסקי, יאָסף
Vocal Cooper, Adrienne -- קאָפּער, חנה־פֿריידע
Artist Mlotek, Zalmen -- מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
First line: Vatch your step, all the people shout, Vatch your step,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: An Afternoon of Yiddish Music
On album: L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)
Track ID: 27649
Vocal Schwartz, William -- שוואַרץ, וויליאַם
First line: Amerika, a land nur fun hurry up, eyner loyft in biznes,
First line:אַמעריקאַ, אַ לאַנד נור פֿון "הורי אָפּ, אײנער לױפֿט אין "בּיזנעס",
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: From Columbia E7625 From the musical - Berele Tremp
Language: Yiddish/Yinglish
Style: Klezmer/Tenor
On album: L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)
Track ID: 27664
Vocalist Weisman, G.
First line: Shtey oyf many man un tu un di takhtoynim, un gey zikh...
First line (Yiddish):שטײ אױף מײַן מאַן און טו אָן די תּחתּונים (?), און גײ זיך זוכן...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Columbia E6104 78rpm
Language: Yiddish
Style: Klezmer/Concert
On album: M-068(a)48 (Milken/Joseph Rumshinsky: Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Vol 3)
Track ID: 33377
Vocal Borts, Joanne
Arranger Russ, Patrick
Artist: Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Jaffe, Elli
First line: Amerika, a land nur fun hurry up, eyner loyft in biznes,
First line (Yiddish):אַמעריקאַ, אַ לאַנד נור פֿון "הורי אָפּ, אײנער לױפֿט אין "בּיזנעס",
Language: Yiddish
Style: Theater/Vaudeville
Length: 2:20
Recording:
On album: V0258 (Michael Tilson Thomas/ The Thomashefskys/ Music and Memories of the Yiddish Theater (Video))
Track ID: 36885
Artist: New World Symphony
Conductor Tilson Thomas, Michael
Vocal Blazer, Judy
Vocal Hensley, Shuler
Vocal Widmann-Levy, Ronit
Vocal Brancoveanu, Eugene
First line: Amerika, a land nur fun hurry up, eyner loyft in biznes, running to your shop,
First line:אַמעריקאַ, אַ לאַנד נור פֿון "הורי אָפּ, אײנער לױפֿט אין "בּיזנעס",
Language: Yiddish/English
Style: Theater/Klezmer/Concert
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu