Look up artist Aaron, Ben


Name: Aaron, Ben
Name (Yiddish): אהרן, בּן
Note: Pseudonym for Mikhl Gelbart. See "Gelbart, Mikhl"

Songs written or composed


Title: Ikh Bin A Kleyner Dreydl (Yid) -- איך בין אַ קלײנער דרײדל (ייִדיש)
Author: Aaron, Ben -- אהרן, בּן
Composer: Gelbart, Mikhl -- געלבאַרט, מיכל
Genre: Children/Khanike/Chanuka/Holiday
Subject: Dreydl/Lead/PlayGold/Dancing/Circle
Origin: Alb B-004(c)/ML YT 33/Alb G-017(a)
Transliteration: Alb B-004(c)/ML YT 33/Alb G-017(a)/Alb C-042(c)
Translation: Alb B-004(c)/Coppersmith 23/Alb G-017(a)Alb C-042(c)
Music: Coopersmith 23
Additional song notes: I'm A Little Dreydl Benn Aaron is pseudonym for Mikhl Gelbart

Recordings:


On album: B-004(c) (Let's Sing A Yiddish Song... Masha Benya & Children Chorus -- לאָמיר זינגען לידער פֿאַר ייִדישע קינדער)
Track ID: 7098
Vocal Benya, Masha -- בעניע, מאַשאַ
Piano Gottlieb, Malke -- גאָטליב, מלכּה
Arranger Gelbart, Mikhl -- געלבאַרט, מיכל
First line: Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl, gemakht bin ikh fun blay,
First line (Yiddish):איך בין אַ קלײנער דרײדל, געמאַכט בין איך פֿון בלײַ,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: Narrated by Yosl Mlotek
Language: Yiddish

On album: G-017(a) (Gut Yom-Tov Kinder! A Treasury of Children's Songs... -- גוט יום-טוב קינדער)
Track ID: 19423
Vocal Workmen's Circle Children's Chorus -- אַרבעטער רינג קינדער כאָר
Piano Mlotek, Zalmen -- מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
First line: Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl, gemakht bin ikh fun blay,
First line (Yiddish):איך בין אַ קלײנער דרײדל, געמאַכט בין איך פֿון בלײַ,
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Yiddish
Style: Children's Chorus

On album: O-012(a) (Orient Express, Moving Shnorers)
Track ID: 27228
Artist: Orient Express Moving Schnorers
Arranger Wekstein, Pierre
Track comment: In the style of Don Byron
Language: Yiddish
Style: Instrumental

On album: C-042(b) (Vessel of Song, The Music Of Mikhl Gelbart, The Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble)
Track ID: 30970
Vocal/Arrangement Cahan-Simon, Lori
Flutes/Arrangement Greenbaum, Adrienne
Cimbalom/Percussion/Vocal Fedoriouk, Alexander
Accordion/Vocal/Arrangement Mahovlich, Walt
Violin/Vocal/Arrangement Greenman, Steven
Bass/Vocal Shapiro, Henry
First line: Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl, gemakht bin ikh fun blay.
First line (Yiddish):איך בין אַ קלײנער דרײדל, געמאַכט בין איך פֿון בלײַ.
Language: Yiddish
Style: Concert/Cabaret

Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu