Sheet music:
Folder: 660
Arranged for: Voice/Piano
Translator: Herbert, Leon M.
Texts: Yiddish/Transliteration/English
Publisher: Metro Music Co.
Publisher address: 64 Second Ave, New York, NY
Date: 1928
Provenance: Schper-Rosenthal Sheet Music Collection, Gift of Faye & Jerry Rosenthal
Mel & Shrifra Gold Project, NYBC Catlg #: 428
First line: A maynsele vil ikh mayn kind dir dertsaylen…
First line (Yiddish): אַ מעשׂהלי וויל איך, מײַן קינד, דיר דערציילן
Notes: Also gift of Dr. Mark Levin/ Black lettering, Yiddish/English. Photo of Sidor Belarsky. Price 40 cents. Back cover includes listing of songs from the repertoire of Sidor Belarsky.
Recordings:
On album: B-003(x) (Sidor Belarsky 24 Favorite Yiddish Songs)
Track ID: 21279
Artist: Belarsky, Sidor -- בעלאַרסקי, סידאָר
First line: A mayse vil ikh mayn kind dir dertsaylen, a maysele...
First line (Yiddish):אַ מעשׂה װיל איך מײַן קינד, דיר דערצײלען, אַ מעשׂהלע װוּנדערלעך..
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert
On album: B-068(a) (Ben Belfer, baritone/ Florence Belfer, piano Yiddish Songs)
Track ID: 23547
Artist: Belfer, Khazn Ben
Artist: Belfer, Florence
First line: A mayse vil ikh mayn kind dir dertsaylen, a maysele...
First line (Yiddish):אַ מעשׂה װיל איך מײַן קינד, דיר דערצײלען, אַ מעשׂהלע װוּנדערלעך..
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert
On album: M-056(a)1 (David Montifiore Hazzan Rishon Opus I -- מונטיפיורה )
Track ID: 22996
Artist: Montefiore, Khazn David & Ensemble -- מונטיפֿיוה, חזן דוד און אַנסעמבל
First line: A mayse vil ikh mayn kind dir dertsaylen, a maysele...
First line (Yiddish):אַ מעשׂה װיל איך מײַן קינד, דיר דערצײלען, אַ מעשׂהלע װוּנדערלעך..
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert
On album: B-003(g) (Sidor Belarsky Jewish Melodies)
Track ID: 3270
Artist: Belarsky, Sidor -- בעלאַרסקי, סידאָר
First line: A mayse vil ikh mayn kind dir dertsaylen, a maysele...
First line (Yiddish):אַ מעשׂה װיל איך מײַן קינד, דיר דערצײלען, אַ מעשׂהלע װוּנדערלעך..
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert
On album: K-057(a) (Para Ustedes... Zivia Klein -- צביה קלײן )
Track ID: 3271
Artist: Levy, Alberto
Artist: Klein, Zivia -- קלײן, צביה
First line: A mayse vil ikh mayn kind dir dertsaylen, a maysele...
First line (Yiddish):אַ מעשׂה װיל איך מײַן קינד, דיר דערצײלען, אַ מעשׂהלע װוּנדערלעך..
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Yiddish
Sheet music:
Folder: 350
Arranged for: Voice/Piano
Texts: English
Publisher: Metro Music Co.
Publisher address: 54 Second Ave, New York, NY
Date: 1969
Provenance: Schper-Rosenthal Sheet Music Collection, Gift of Faye & Jerry Rosenthal
Mel & Shrifra Gold Project, NYBC Catlg #: 123
First line: Three thousand years ago the Hebrew Prophet's soul…..
Notes: Black lettering in English. Poem by Philip Raskin; Music by Rebecca Richter. Published by Temple Israel, Albany, NY Herman Kieval, Rabbi / Reuven Frankel, Hazzan - Music Director On the occasion of its Twentieth Anniversary Celebration. Price $1.50. Two verses in English on back cover.
Sheet music:
Folder: 521
Arranged for: Voice/Piano
Texts: Yiddish/Transliteration
Publisher: Metro Music Co.
Publisher address: 58 Second Ave., New York, NY
Date: 1930
Provenance: Schper-Rosenthal Sheet Music Collection, Gift of Faye & Jerry Rosenthal
Mel & Shrifra Gold Project, NYBC Catlg #: 265
First line: Ikh bin geven a yingele, nokh seyr klayn un shvakh….
First line (Yiddish): איך בין געווען אַ ייִנגעלע, נאָך זער קליין און שוואַך,
Notes: Black lettering, Yiddish/English. "I was A Lad" (English). Price 35 cents. Five verses in Yiddish inside front cover.
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu