Look up artist Moss, Josh & Gina
Name: Moss, Josh & Gina
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Title: Tum Balalayke -- טום באַלאַלײַקע
Also known as: Twistin' The Freylekhs (Instr)
Also known as: Play Balalaike
Genre: Folk/Love/Courtship/Riddle
Subject: Love/Riddle
Origin: ML MTAG 30/GYF 76/Alb G-026(a)/Alb O-001(b)/Alb B-007(b)/Alb C-015(a)
Transliteration: ML MTAG 30/Alb S-083(a)/Alb S-085(a)/Alb S-056(a)/Alb N-002(a)/
Translation: Alb N-002(a)/Silverman SJP 5/Alb Y-018(b)/GYF 79/Alb K-29(g)/Schwartz 2
Music: ML MTAG 31/GYF 77/Schwartz 2
Additional song notes: See Ephemera 80 for singable English adapation by Edith Finell.
Related information in folder 730:- Comments: 1. Transliteration and singable Yiddish translation by Edith Finell.
Related information in folder 1182:- Comments: 1. Article in Yiddish Forverts of April 6-12, 2012
by Moshe Lemster (Israel) titled "Vegn '"Tum-Balalayke" in A Yidishn-Nit Yidisn Teater"' (About "Tum-Balalayke" in a Yiddish- - Non Yiddish Theater. Article deals with the popularity of the song.
On album: C-037(a) (Freylekh Zol Zayn! The Cincinnati Klezmer Project -- פֿרײלעך זאָל זײַן )
Track ID: 24963
Artist: Moss, Josh & Gina
Artist: Cincinnati Klezmer Project
First line: Shteyt a bokher un er trakht, Trakht un trakht a gantse...
First line (Yiddish):שטײט אַ בחור און ער טראַכט, טראַכט און טראַכט אַ גאַנצע נאַכט,
Language: Yiddish
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu