Look up artist Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich


Name: Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich
Born: 1894
Died: 1939

Songs written or composed


Title: Chto Mnye Gorye
Author: Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich
Composer: Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich
Genre: Russian/Gypsy
Subject: Gypsy/Drink/Ache/Guitar/Love/Homeless
Music: ML SOG 168
Additional song notes: Translated into Yiddish. See "Shpil Guitar" Also parodied in English under title "Kretschme"

Recordings:


On album: B-082(a) (Heart On The Snow The Balalaika Russe)
Track ID: 25862
Artist: Sherman, Judy & Balalaike Russe
Artist: Balalaike Russe
Track comment: What's Grief To Me
Language: Russian

On album: B-007(f) (Theodore Bikel Songs of a Russian Gypsy)
Track ID: 2770
Artist: Bikel, Theodore
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Is this the same as Eyfo Hen of Kooko & Sarafan?
Language: Russian
Style: Gypsy

On album: C-034(a) (Roslyn Cooper Songs Of The Jewish People)
Track ID: 2771
Artist: Cooper, Roslyn
Artist: Howard, Hersh
Language: Russian
Style: Gypsy

On album: F-001(b) (Cafe Feenjon Featuring The Feenjon Group)
Track ID: 2772
Artist: Feenjon Group
Artist: Grobard, Avram -- גראָבאַרד, אַבֿרהם
Language: Russian

Title: Shpil Gitar -- שפּיל גיטאַר
Author: Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich
Composer: Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich
Genre: USSR
Subject: Gypsy/Drinkikng/Wine/Song/Guitar/Love/Ache/Homeless
Origin: ML SOG 167
Transliteration: ML SOG 167
Translation: ML SOG 167
Music: ML SOG 168
Additional song notes: Translated from the Russian "Chto Mnie Gore". Translator unknown. Also parodied in the English "Kretschme"

Recordings:


On album: K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID: 35470
Artist: Koller, Yitzchak -- קאָלער, יצחק
Artist: Tal, Gabriella
First line: Shpil gitar, biz mayn tsar vet oyfhern, zol platsn di strunes un a tsol,
First line (Yiddish):שפּיל גיטאַר, ביז מײַן צער װעט אױפֿהערן, זאָל פּלאַצן די סטרונעס אָן אָ צאָל
Language: Yiddish
Style: Folk
Length: 3:22

On album: K-094(a) (Tsigayner Klezmer, Rolinha Kross Trio)
Track ID: 30983
Artist: van Tol, Theo
Artist: Kross, Rolinha
Artist: Vink, Bokkie
Artist: Rolinha Kross Trio
First line: Shpil, gitar, biz mayn tsar vey oyfhern, zoln platsn di strunes on…
First line (Yiddish):שפּיל, גיטאַר ביז מײַן צער װעט אױפֿהערן, זאָלן פּלאַסטן די סטרונעס אָן…
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert/Cabaret

On album: A-035(e) (Aufwind/ inejnem/ Jiddische Lieder & Klesmermusik)
Track ID: 28725
Artist: Aufwind
Artist: Hermerschmidt, Jan
Artist: Koch, Claudia
Artist: Paffrath, Thomas
Artist: Reich, Hardy
Artist: Rohde, Andreas
Artist: Charney, Daniel -- טשאַרני, דניאל
First line: Shpil gitar, biz mayn tsar vet oyfhern, zol platsn di strunes un a tsol,
First line (Yiddish):שפּיל גיטאַר, ביז מײַן צער װעט אױפֿהערן, זאָל פּלאַצן די סטרונעס אָן אָ צאָל
Language: Yiddish
Style: Gypsy/Sole male vocalist not identified
Length: 4' 13

On album: A-035(f) (Aufwind / Live)
Track ID: 31981
Artist: Aufwind
Artist: Koch, Claudia
Artist: Reich, Hardy
Artist: Rohde, Andreas
Artist: Hermerschmidt, Jan
Artist: Paffrath, Thomas
First line: Shpil gitar, biz mayn tsar vet oyfhern, zol platsn di strunes un a…
First line (Yiddish):שפּיל גיטאַר, ביז מײַן צער װעט אױפֿהערן, זאָל פּלאַצן די סטרונעס אָן אָ צאָל
Language: Yiddish
Style: Pop/Concert/Klezmer
Length: 4:37

On album: T-023(a) (Those Were The Days)
Track ID: 14186
Artist: Wilner, Lori
Artist: Mlotek, Zalmen -- מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
Artist: Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra
First line: Shpil gitar, biz mayn tsar vet oyfhern, zoln platsn di…
First line:שפּיל גיטאַר, ביז מײַן צער װעט אױפֿהערן, זאָלן פּלאַצן די סטרונעס..
Track comment: From "Those Were The Days"/
Language: Yiddish/English

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