Name:
Roubanis, Nick
Name (Yiddish):
רובּינס, ניק

Songs written or composed

Miserlou — מיסערלאָו

Composer:
Roubanis, Nick — רובּינס, ניק
Genre:
Love
Subject:
Desert
Origin:
Alb T-005(c)/CD S-001(d)
Transliteration:
CD S-001(d)/Alb K-029(h)/Alb P-038(b)
Translation:
CD S-001(d)/Alb K-029(h)
Additional song notes:
Music adapted from Greek folk dance melody
Related information in folder 268:
Document type:
Article
Author:
Chana Mlotek
Publisher:
Yiddish Forward
Date:
6/10/2005
Comments:
Response to letter titled "Fun Vanen Shtamt dos 'Miserlou"- lid?''" Song text published.
Sheet music:
Folder:
1231
Series:
4
Arranger:
Richard Gendelman
Arranged for:
Bb Clarinet, Trumpet Tenor Saxaphone
Texts:
Instrumental Only
Provenance:
Gendelman Gift
Notes:
Manuscript

Recordings

On album:
B-002(c) (Jan Bart Sings Yinglish)
Track ID:
10539
Vocal/English Adaption:
Bart, Jan
Arranger/Conductor:
Gunther, William
First line:
Desert shadows creep across purple sand, natives kneel in...
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
Leed credited as co-composer on this track
Language:
English
On album:
K-019(a) (First Live Chassidic Wedding Joe King and his Orchestra)
Track ID:
10540
Artist:
King, Joe and his Orchestra
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
Greek folk dance.
Style:
Instrumental
On album:
S-080(a) (Sweet Dreams (Sheyne Chalomes) For Guitars and Flutes — שײנע חלומות)
Track ID:
10541
Artist:
Schonbrun, Bluma & Bill Bridges
Arranger:
Schonbrun, B.& B. Bridges, arr
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
K-010(b) (The Best of Miriam Kressen & Seymour Rexsite)
Track ID:
10543
Vocal:
Rechtzeit, Seymour — רעכצײַט, סימאָר
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, in heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol...
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, און הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
R-016(b) (Seymour Rexsite Sings Jewish Folk Songs & Yiddish Theatre...)
Track ID:
10544
Vocal:
Rechtzeit, Seymour — רעכצײַט, סימאָר
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, in heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol...
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, און הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
S-027(c) (Jacob Sandler Yiddishe Tanz Musik Vol. 2 — יעקבֿ סאַנדלער ייִדישע טאַנץ מוזיק)
Track ID:
10545
Vocal:
Sandler, Jacob — סאַנדלער, יעקבֿ
Vocal/Accompaniment:
Hed Arzi Orchestra and Choir — הד ארצי אָרקעסטער און כאָר
Arranger/Conductor:
Tarski, Alexander — טאַרסקי, אַלעקסאַנדער
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, in heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol...
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, און הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
T-005(b) (Chaim Towber Anniversary Record)
Track ID:
10546
Vocal:
Tauber, Chaim Shmuel (Shami) טױבער, חיים שמואל (שמאי)
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, in heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol...
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, און הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Track comment:
Tauber credited as co-composer on this track
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
T-005(c) (Chaim Towber, The Singing Poet Songs To Remember — לידער צו געדענקען)
Track ID:
10547
Composer:
Tauber - Roubanis
Vocal:
Tauber, Chaim Shmuel (Shami) טױבער, חיים שמואל (שמאי)
First line:
Vayt in der midbar, fun heyser zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol..
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דער מדבּר, פֿון הײסער זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
Tauber credited as co-composer on this track
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
B-028(f) (Golden Voices of Israel No 3 Bagelman Sisters and Others)
Track ID:
10548
Vocal:
Rechtzeit, Seymour — רעכצײַט, סימאָר
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, in heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol...
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, און הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Track comment:
Tauber credited as co-composer on this track
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
J-022(a) (The REAL Complete Jewish Party Music Collection / David & The High Spirit)
Track ID:
18739
Artist:
David & Gila's Band with chorus
Track comment:
Recorded under "Folk Dances - medley
Style:
Instrumental
On album:
B-061(a) (Boiberik Camp Songs Field Tape Compiled by Mickey Hurewitz)
Track ID:
19650
Artist:
Boiberik Campers
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
Part of Children's Oneyg Shabos in auditorium
Style:
Instrumental
Length:
2:05
On album:
O-010(a) (Oomph Intercontinental Klezmer Between Two Worlds)
Track ID:
21404
Artist:
Oomph
Style:
Instrumental
On album:
S-047(b) (Mazel Tov! More Music Of The Jewish People)
Track ID:
21427
Vocal:
Rechtzeit, Seymour — רעכצײַט, סימאָר
Artist:
Abe Ellstein Orchestra — אײב עלשטײַן אָרקעסטער
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, in heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol...
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, און הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
S-027(d) (Jacob Sandler Yidishe Tants Muzik — ייִדישע טאַנץ מוזיק)
Track ID:
22365
Vocal:
Sandler, Jacob — סאַנדלער, יעקבֿ
Vocal/Accompaniment:
Hed Arzi Orchestra and Choir — הד ארצי אָרקעסטער און כאָר
Arranger/Conductor:
Tarski, Alexander — טאַרסקי, אַלעקסאַנדער
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, in heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol...
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, און הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
B-067(a) (Timeless Jewish Songs Shirim La'ad Martha Rock Birnbaum — שירים לעד)
Track ID:
23397
Harp:
Dechario, Barbara
Arranger/Musical Director:
Dechario, Joseph
Style:
Instrumental/Harp Solo
On album:
S-081(d) (Salomon Klezmorim Klezt Best!)
Track ID:
24054
Artist:
Salomon Klezmorim
Clarinet:
Salomon, Marcel
Accordion:
von Tol, Theo
Violin:
Lootsma, Nienke
First line:
Vayt in der midbar, fun heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol...
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דער מידבּר, פֿון הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
K-029(h) (The Klezmer Cconservatory Band Dancing In the Aisles)
Track ID:
25255
Artist:
Klezmer Conservatory Band
Vocal:
Bressler, Judy
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, in heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol...
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, און הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Concert
On album:
K-068(e) (Klezaimir Back in the Shtetl Again — צוריק אין דעם שטעטל נאָכאַמאָל)
Track ID:
27153
Artist:
Klezamir
Style:
Instrumental
On album:
P-038(b) (Pressburger Klezmer Band / Ot Azoy)
Track ID:
32561
Artist:
Pressburger Klezmer Band — פּ ק בּ
Vocal:
Ballova, Linda
Violin/Arranger:
Werner, Andrej
Clarinet:
Lago, Miro
Viola:
Alexander, Daniel
Piano/Synthesizer:
Suska, Pavol
Drums/Percussion:
Oros, Martin
Double Bass:
Alexander, Samo
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, fun heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol a meydele dort..
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, פֿון הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל אַ מיידל דאָרט..
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Folk/
Length:
4:11
On album:
P-038(b) (Pressburger Klezmer Band / Ot Azoy)
Track ID:
32562
Artist:
Pressburger Klezmer Band — פּ ק בּ
Vocal:
Ballova, Linda
Violin/Arranger:
Werner, Andrej
Clarinet:
Lago, Miro
Viola:
Alexander, Daniel
Piano/Synthesizer:
Suska, Pavol
Drums/Percussion:
Oros, Martin
Double Bass:
Alexander, Samo
Udu Drum:
Lopi
Style:
Nigun/Syncopated
Length:
2:11
On album:
B-087(a) (Henry Berman: 1945-1948 — חיים בערמאַן: 1948-1945)
Track ID:
30767
Vocal:
Berman, Henry — בערמאַן, חיים
First line:
Shtendik flegt mayn mame zogn mir
First line (Yiddish):
שׁטענדיק פֿלעגט מייִן מאַמע זאָגן מיר
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Theatre
On album:
015i (August, Jan/ Miserlou/ Babalu)
Track ID:
29223
Artist:
August, Jan
On album:
Z-011(f) (Talila & Ben Zimet / Yiddish Atmosphere)
Track ID:
28754
Vocal:
Talila
Trunpet/Trombone/Percussion/Clarinet/Flute:
Derouin, Michel
Contrabass:
Mortarelli, Pierre
Piano:
Schaff, Eddy
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, fun heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol a meydele dort..
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, פֿui הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל אַ מיידל דאָרט..
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Concert
Length:
06:07
On album:
G-074(a) (Alex Marcus Goldman Orchestra (second album))
Track ID:
33641
Artist:
Alex Marcus Goldman Orchestra
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Style:
Instrumental/Klezmer
Length:
3:51
On album:
M-097(a) (Merovitz Project + Brass/ Live In Montreal — דער מעראָוויץ פּראָיעקט)
Track ID:
36394
Synths:
Winograd, Michael — ווינאָגראַד, מ.
Guitar:
Fox-Rosen, Avi
Guitar:
Fruchter, Yoshie
Bass:
Folman-Cohen, Ari
Drums:
Berry, Chris
Accordeon/Musical Director:
Oppenheim, Henri
Style:
Pop/Instrumental/Klezmer
Length:
4:13
On album:
E-018(d) (Epstein Brothers/ Judiac International/ Over 200 Years of Music Collectively/ Disc 1one and two)
Track ID:
41257
On album:
Y-063(a) (The Best Yiddish Album In The World/Jewish Musical Heritage)
Track ID:
41740
/Accompaniment:
Hed Arzi Orchestra — הד ארצי אָרקעסטער
Vocal:
Sandler, Jacob — סאַנדלער, יעקבֿ
Arranger/Conductor:
Tarski, Alexander — טאַרסקי, אַלעקסאַנדער
First line:
Vayt in dem midbar, fun heyse zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol a meydele dort..
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דעם מידבּר, פֿון הײסע זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל אַ מיידל דאָרט..
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Folk/
Length:
2:59
On album:
R-016(h) (Seymour Rechzeit Sings Your Favorite Songs in his Intimate Style)
Track ID:
33819
Vocal:
Rechtzeit, Seymour — רעכצײַט, סימאָר
Piano:
Ellstein, Abe — עלשטײַן, אײב
First line:
Vayt in der midbar, fun heyser zun farbrent, hob ikh a mol..
First line (Yiddish):
װײַט אין דער מדבּר, פֿון הײסער זון פֿאַרברענט, האָב איך אַ מאָל...
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Pop/Yemenite
On album:
K-137(a) (Mazzeltov: Rolinha Kross/Amsterdam — אַמסטערדאַם)
Track ID:
39459
First line:
Vajt in dem midbar fun hejser zun farbrent hob ich amol a mejdele dort gekent
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Klezmer/Folk
Length:
7:43

S'veltel Iz Nisht Ay Ay — ס'װעלטעל איז נישט אײַ אײַ

Author:
Shechter, Harry — שעכטער, האַרי
Composer:
Roubanis, Nick — רובּינס, ניק
Genre:
Lament
Subject:
Poverty/Faith/Complaint
Additional song notes:
Set to the melody of "Miserlou"

Recordings

On album:
B-057(a) (The Jewish Mood Maxim Broydn)
Track ID:
13177
Artist:
Brodyn, Maxim — בראָדין, מאַקסים
Composer:
Shekhter
First line:
Riboynu shel olam, hartsiker foter, du, vi lang vel ikh...
First line (Yiddish):
רבּונו של עלום, האַרציקער פֿאָטער, דו, װי לאַנג װעל איך װאַרטן,
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
From 78 rpm album "The Jewish Mood, Stinson 602-2
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
S-093(a)2 (Leo Summergrad Yiddish Folksongs 1959 Vol 2 of 2)
Track ID:
23180
Vocal:
Summergrad, Leo
First line:
Riboynu shel olam, tayerer foter, du, vi lang zol ikh...
First line (Yiddish):
רבּונו של עלום, טײַערער פֿאָטער, דו, װי לאַנג זאָל איך װאַרטן,
Track comment:
See 78 rpm album "The Jewish Mood, Stinson 602-2
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Acapella