Look up artist Bell, Benny
Name: Bell, Benny
Born: March 21, 1906 (Brooklyn, NY)
Died: July 6, 1999
Note: Born Ben Samberg
Related information in folder 542:- Document type: Article
Publisher: Der Bay, April 2006
Date: April 01, 2006
Comments: Biographical detail and announcement of a new CD.
Songs written or composed
Title: A Disgusted Millionaire
Author: Bell, Benny
Recordings:
On album: 006s (Bell, Benny/ Benny Bell Bazingt A Kale/ A Disgusted Millionaire)
Track ID: 28970
Artist: Bell, Benny
On album: 006e (Bell, Benny/ A Disgusted Millionaire/ Antloyft Mit Mir)
Track ID: 28943
Artist: Bell, Benny
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35242
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Yiddish Radio Broadkest
Author: Bell, Benny
Genre: Parody/Humorous
Subject: Advertisement/Commercial/Cockroach Powder/
Recordings:
On album: 006f (Bell, Benny/ Wedding Waltz/ Yiddish Radio Broadcast)
Track ID: 28946
Artist: Bell, Benny
On album: A-048(a) (All for you: collection of love songs -- הכל בשבילך: אוסף שירי אהבה)
Track ID: 31730
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: Tut vos ikh heys aykh, zay nit a duns,
First line (Yiddish):טוט וואָס איך הייס אײַך, זײַ ניט אַ דונס,
Language: Yiddish
Style: Orchestra Accompaniment
Title: Pincus The Peddler
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: 006h (Bell, Benny & His Agony Trio/ Pincus The Peddler/ Why Buy A Cow When Milk Is...)
Track ID: 28949
Artist: Bell, Benny & His Agony Trio
Title: Hetsale Getsale Gu -- העצאַלע געצאַלע גו
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: 060j (Bell, Benny/ Hetsale Getsale Gu/ Gelt, Gelt, Gelt)
Track ID: 30591
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: Yiddish
Title: Gelt, Gelt, Gelt -- געלט, געלט, געלט
Author: Bell, Benny
Genre: Comic Song
Subject: Money/ Morality
Recordings:
On album: 060j (Bell, Benny/ Hetsale Getsale Gu/ Gelt, Gelt, Gelt)
Track ID: 30592
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: Yiddish
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35254
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Bar Mitsvah Droshe -- בּר־מיצװה דרשה
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: 061b (Bell, Benny/ Bar Mitsva Droshe/ Simkhe Freylekh)
Track ID: 30597
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: Yidishe Radio Brodkest -- ייִדישע ראַדיאָ בראָדקעסט
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: 061c (Bell, Benny/ Yidishe Radio Brodkest/ Khasene Valz)
Track ID: 30599
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: Benny Bell) Bazingt A Kale
Author: Bell, Benny
Genre: Comedy
Subject: Badkhn
Song Comment: English title: "Blessing the Bride"
Translation: Alb B-021(b)
Additional song notes: Parody of traditional wedding patter.
Title: Bar Mitsve Yingele
Author: Bell, Benny
Genre: Comedy
Subject: Gifts/Materialism
Song Comment: English Title: "Bar Mitzvah Boy"
Additional song notes: Possibly also listed on 78 as "Bar Mitzvah Speech:
Title: Yah-Dah-Dye
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35238
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Hetzeleh Getzeleh Goo
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35239
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Happiness Freylach
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35240
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Yiddish Radio Broadcast
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35241
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Pincus Went to the Mountains
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35244
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Celebration Freylach
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35247
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Mendle's Muskiteers
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35248
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Comic Cantor
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35249
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Bar Mitzvah Speech
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35250
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Oy, My Mother-in-Law
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35251
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Sammy and Sadie
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35252
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Home Again in Israel
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35253
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Gelt, Gelt, Gelt (Bell)
Author: Bell, Benny
Title: Moishe Pipick
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35255
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Brooklyn Bridge
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35256
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Benny Bell Freylach
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35257
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: In the Subway
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35245
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: Misfortune
Author: Bell, Benny
Recording:
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35246
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Other tracks with this artist
Title: Pincus the Peddler (Bell)
On album: B-041(C) (Benny Bell: Lost Legend of Elton Street)
Track ID: 35243
Artist: Bell, Benny
Language: English/Yiddish
Title: El Toreadore (Eng, Yid, Parody)
On album: B-041(a) (Jewish American Novelty Tunes Kosher Comedy Benny Bell)
Track ID: 4518
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: My wife, she treats me like a slave, she'd love to see me..
First line (English):איך האָב אַ שלאַמק אַ װײַבעלע, זי איז ערגער װי אַ טײַבעלע,
Language: English
Title: Home Again In Israel (Eng)
On album: B-041(a) (Jewish American Novelty Tunes Kosher Comedy Benny Bell)
Track ID: 6716
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: Home again in Israel, at last no more need I roam,
Title: In Old Romaniia (Rumenye, Rumenye)
On album: xB-041(a)
Track ID: 7411
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: Runmenye, I used to live there before I moved to Pennsylv...
First line:עס איז געװען אַן אױגנבליק, ידן טאָג גאָר ו יום טובֿדיק,
Track comment: Recorded under title "In Old Rumania"
Title: It's A Boy (Eng)
On album: B-041(a) (Jewish American Novelty Tunes Kosher Comedy Benny Bell)
Track ID: 7549
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: Have you heard about the current affair, Mr. Feinberg...
Title: Living And Laughing (Eng)
On album: B-041(a) (Jewish American Novelty Tunes Kosher Comedy Benny Bell)
Track ID: 9244
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: I'm for living and laughing, and making life sublime,
First line:איך גײ אַ מאָל אַרײַן צן זען אַ "מאָװינג פּיקור שאָ", און איך זיץ..
Title: Parnose (Eng, Bell)
On album: B-041(a) (Jewish American Novelty Tunes Kosher Comedy Benny Bell)
Track ID: 12126
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: Parnuse, parnuse, I need you all the time, without you...
Title: Pincus In The Mountains (Eng)
On album: B-041(a) (Jewish American Novelty Tunes Kosher Comedy Benny Bell)
Track ID: 12216
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: Pincus went to the mountains, a couple of weeks ago,
Track comment: Same meoldy as "Itsik Hot Khasene Gehat"
Title: Pincus The Peddler (Eng)
On album: B-041(a) (Jewish American Novelty Tunes Kosher Comedy Benny Bell)
Track ID: 12217
Artist: Bell, Benny
Track comment: Sounds like "Minnie The Moocher"
Title: Rumenye, Rumenye (Parody, Eng Yid)
On album: B-041(a) (Jewish American Novelty Tunes Kosher Comedy Benny Bell)
Track ID: 13069
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: Rumenye, I used to live there before I moved to Pennsylv...
First line:עס איז געװען אַן אױגנבליק, ידן טאָג גאָר ו יום טובֿדיק,
Track comment: Recorded under title "In Old Rumania"
Title: Sammy From Miami (Eng)
On album: B-041(a) (Jewish American Novelty Tunes Kosher Comedy Benny Bell)
Track ID: 13239
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: Sammy from Miami was such a happy guy, always full of...
Title: The Son Of Pincus (Eng)
On album: B-041(a) (Jewish American Novelty Tunes Kosher Comedy Benny Bell)
Track ID: 15214
Artist: Bell, Benny
First line: My father was a peddler, his name you all should know,
Track comment: Is this a parody of another tune?
Title: Benny Bell Bazingt A Kale
On album: 006s (Bell, Benny/ Benny Bell Bazingt A Kale/ A Disgusted Millionaire)
Track ID: 28969
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: A Mazl Tov Farn Mekhutn
On album: 041o (Bell, Benny/ A Mazl Tov Farn Mekhutn/ Oyfn Pripetshik)
Track ID: 29986
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: Oyfn Pripetshik (Warshavsky) -- אױפֿן פּריפּעטשיק (וואַרשאַווסקי)
Also known as: Der Alef Beys
Also known as: In The Fireplace
Also known as: Afn Pripetshik
Author: Warshavsky, Mark M. -- װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.
Author: Warshavsky, Mark M. -- װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.
Author: Warshavsky, Mark M. -- װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.
Author: Warshavsky, Mark M. -- װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.
Composer: Warshavsky, Mark M. -- װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.
Composer: Warshavsky, Mark M. -- װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.
Genre: Folk
Subject: Children/Alphabet/Education/Learning/Rebbe/Kheyder/School
Origin: ML MTAG 2/Alb K-014(a)/GYF 24/Alb A-001(h)/Alb G-026(a)/Alb R-022(a)
Transliteration: Alb R-022(a)/ML MTAG 2/Alb B-004(c)/Alb C-015(a)/Alb D-016(a)/
Translation: Alb S-083(a)/Alb L-024(b)/GYF 27/Kinderbuch 167/Alb G-017(a)/Sh Sh 196/
Music: ML MTAG 2/GYF 25/Metro Scher 24
Additional song notes: See Ephemera 80 for singable English adapation by Edith Finell.
Related information in folder 332:- Document type: Translation
Author: Max Rosenfeld
Comments: Singable English adaptation by Max Rosenfeld.
2. Soviet version, reflecting changes from the original text, from Anna Sternshis's book "Soviet and Kosher."
3. Transliteration and singable Yiddish translation by Edith Finell.
On album: 041o (Bell, Benny/ A Mazl Tov Farn Mekhutn/ Oyfn Pripetshik)
Track ID: 29987
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: Ay Ay Ya Da Dy
On album: 006i (Bell, Benny/ Happiness Freylekh/ Ay Ay Ya Da Dy)
Track ID: 28952
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: Benny Bell Bazingt A Kale
On album: 006c (Bell, Benny/ Benny Bell Bazingt A Kale/ Shlemazl Vos Vilstu)
Track ID: 28939
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: Shlemazl Vos Vilstu
On album: 006c (Bell, Benny/ Benny Bell Bazingt A Kale/ Shlemazl Vos Vilstu)
Track ID: 28940
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: Antloyft Mit Mir
On album: 006e (Bell, Benny/ A Disgusted Millionaire/ Antloyft Mit Mir)
Track ID: 28944
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: Wedding Waltz
On album: 006f (Bell, Benny/ Wedding Waltz/ Yiddish Radio Broadcast)
Track ID: 28945
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: In Di Subvey
On album: 006g (Bell, Benny/ In Di Subvey/ Moyshe Pipik)
Track ID: 28947
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: Moyshe Pipik
On album: 006g (Bell, Benny/ In Di Subvey/ Moyshe Pipik)
Track ID: 28948
Artist: Bell, Benny
Title: Happiness Freylekh
On album: 006i (Bell, Benny/ Happiness Freylekh/ Ay Ay Ya Da Dy)
Track ID: 28951
Artist: Bell, Benny
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