Recordings:
On album: O-007(d) (The Old World Folk Band Crossing New Borders)
Track ID: 25724
Artist: Leviton, Susan
Artist: Old World Folk Band
Artist: Krashunskaya, Dina
First line: When you hear Russian songs, do you suffer? Does your....
Language: English
On album: B-007(q) (Bravo! / Theodore Bikel Town Hall Concert)
Track ID: 32694
Artist: Bikel, Theodore
First line: When you hear Russian songs, do you suffer?
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: English
Style: Concert
Sheet music:
Folder: 1152
Arranged for: Voice/Piano
Texts: English
Publisher: Essex Music Inc.
Publisher address: New York
Date: 1962/1968
Provenance: Gift in honor of Richy Gendelman
First line: Once upon a time there was a tavern where we used to raise..
Recordings:
On album: L-034(a) (Dayne Oygn Francois Lilienfed und "Galizianer" -- דײַנע אױגן )
Track ID: 15297
Artist: Lilienfeld, Francois
Artist: Galitsianer
First line: Vos ikh bin geven nokh a kleyn yingl, hob ikh nit gevust...
First line (Yiddish):װאָס איך בין געװען נאָך אַ קלײן ייִנגל, האָב איך ניט געװוּסט...
Track comment: Recorded in Switzerland under "Di Yurn Geyen Avek"
Language: Yiddish
On album: L-034(b) (Simkhes Un Tsures Francois Lilienfeld /Ensemble Galitsianer -- שׂמחות און צרות )
Track ID: 15298
Artist: Lilienfeld, Francois
Artist: Galitsianer
First line: Vos ikh bin geven nokh a kleyn yingl, hob ikh nit gevust...
First line (Yiddish):װאָס איך בין געװען נאָך אַ קלײן ייִנגל, האָב איך ניט געװוּסט...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Yiddish
On album: F-023(a) (Irina Fogelson Sings: Yiddish Hebrew Russian English)
Track ID: 15300
Artist: Fogelson, Irena
Artist: Shalit, Vladimir
Artist: Batitsky, Pavel
First line: Once upon a time there was a tavern, where we used to...
First line:הערט, עס קלינגט בײַ...מיט דײַן געלעכטע, דערקענסט מיך ניט...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: English/Russian/Yiddish
On album: T-023(a) (Those Were The Days)
Track ID: 15301
Artist: Mlotek, Zalmen -- מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
Artist: Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra
Artist: Abelson, Khazn Robert Paul
Artist: Reissa, Eleanor
First line: Once upon a time there was a tavern, where we used to...
Track comment: From "Those Were The Days"
Language: English
On album: A-016(a) (Play My Balalaika The Andreyev Balalaika Ensemble, Vol 2)
Track ID: 15303
Artist: Andreyev Balalaika Ensemble
Artist: Selivan, Mark A., dir
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Based on Russian song "The Long Road" by Boris Fomin
On album: N-008(a) (Fay Nicoll Sings: Yiddish Hebrew Russian English)
Track ID: 15304
Artist: Sakhar, Moshe -- סחר, משה
Artist: Nicoll, Fay
First line: Eregts dortn shteyt an alte kretshma, vu mir flegn trinkn...
First line (Yiddish):ערגעץ דאָרטן שטײט אַן אַלטע קרעטשמע, װוּ מיר פֿלעגן טרינקן זיסע..
Track comment: Adaptation from original Russian
Language: Yiddish
On album: G-039(a) (Ben Gailing's Golden Jubilee Record 1921-1971)
Track ID: 15305
Artist: Gailing, Ben
First line: Gedenst du nokh, mayn fraynt, dem alten shenkl,
First line (Yiddish):געדענקסט דו נאָך, מײַן פֿרײַנט, דעם אַלטען שענקל,
Language: Yiddish
On album: S-015(a)
Track ID: 15306
Artist: Schwartz, Teddi, Yid -- שװאַרץ, טעדי, ייַדיש
Artist: Schwartz, Teddi -- שװאַרץ, טעדי
First line: Vi oft mir flegn trefn zikh in shenkl, mir zenen yung un...
First line (Yiddish):װי אָפֿט מיר פֿלעגן טרעפֿן זיך אין שענקל, מיר זענען יונג און...
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Text and Transliteration with album notes
Language: Yiddish
On album: B-095(b) (Hilda Bronstein Sings Yiddish Songs With Chutzpah!)
Track ID: 33566
Artist: Bronstein, Hilda -- בראָנשטײַן, הילדאַ
Artist: Chutzpah
Artist: Hamilton, Meg
Artist: Kozokaro, Ronen
Artist: Moylan, Paul
Artist: Schleider, Yair
Artist: Shulman, David
First line: Eregts dortn shteyt an alte kretshma, vu mir flegn trinkn zise vayn,
First line (Yiddish):ערגעץ דאָרטן שטײט אַן אַלטע קרעטשמע, װוּ מיר פֿלעגן טרינקן זיסע ווײַן,
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert/Art Song/Nostalgic/Pop
Length: 3:09
On album: B-088(b) (Bobby Block Sings Yiddish / The Songs From His Youth)
Track ID: 33530
Artist: Block, Bobby
Artist: Kravitz, Bernie
Artist: Sperell, Chic
First line: Once upon a time there was a tavern, where we used to raise a glass or two,
Language: English
Style: Pop
Length: 3:12
On album: xL-034(a)
Track ID: 3820
Artist: Lilienfeld, Francois
Artist: Galitsianer
First line: Vos ikh bin geven nokh a kleyn yingl, hob ikh nit gevust...
First line (Yiddish):װאָס איך בין געװען נאָך אַ קלײן ייִנגל, האָב איך ניט געװוּסט...
Track comment: Recorded in Switzerland under "Di Yurn Geyen Avek"
Language: Yiddish
On album: E-001(d) (The Latest Yiddish Songs by David Eshet -- די לעצטע לידער אין ייִדיש זינגט דוד עשת)
Track ID: 5113
Artist: Sakhar, Moshe -- סחר, משה
Artist: Eshet, David -- עשת, דוד
Artist: D. R. G. Orchestra -- ד. ר. ג. אָרקעסטער
First line: Eregts dortn shteyt an alte kretshma, vu mir flegn trinkn...
First line:ערגעץ דאָרטן שטײט אַן אַלטע קרעטשמע, װוּ מיר פֿלעגן טרינקן זיסע..
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu