humor

Recordings

On album:

xB-062(a)

Track ID:

19672

Author:

Ferrao, Raul & Jimmy Kennedy

Artist:

Don Byron Orchestra

Vocal:

Sklamberg, Lorin

First line:

Peysekh in Portugal (2x), I love to spend a peysekh in...

Track comment:

Recorded under Peysekh In Portugal

On album:

K-022(l) (Katz Puts On The Dog)

Track ID:

31283

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

Back-up:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

Peysekh in Portugal, yoo-hoo (2x)…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English/Yiddish

Style:

Easy Listening/Klezmer

Recording

On album:

V-005(c) (20th Century Yiddish Humor)

Track ID:

13005

Vocal:

Leslie, Larry

First line:

A vu tut dir, a vey, a vu.

First line:

אַ װוּ טוט דיר, אַ װײ, אַ װוּ

Language:

English/Yiddish/Yinglish

Style:

Comedy Routine

Recordings

On album:

K-003(a) (Songs and Tunes From the Ghetto Jeno Kohn (vocalist))

Track ID:

13453

Artist:

Trio Lorand

Vocal:

Kohn, Jeno

Piano:

Lorand, Marcel

First line:

Der Rebe zitst zikh oyvn on, shabos nokhn kugl,

First line (Yiddish):

דער רבּי זיצט זיך אױװן אָן, שבּת נאָכן קוגל, חסידים זיצן אַרום...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Shabos Nokn Kugl

Language:

Yiddish

On album:

B-012(a) (A Khasene In Shtetl Oysgefirt Durkh Di 4 Burshteyns — אַ חתונה אין שטעטל אױסגעפֿירט דורך די פֿיר בורשטײנס)

Track ID:

13454

Vocal:

Burstein, Peysekhke — בורשטײַן, פּסחקע

Vocal:

Burstein, Mike — בורשטײַן, מײַק

First line:

Der tate zitst zikh oyf zayn shtil, oy, shabos nukhn kugl,

First line (Yiddish):

דער טאַטע זיצט זיך אױף זײן שטיל, אױ, שבּת נאָכן קוגל,

Track comment:

From "A Khasene In Shtetl"

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Duet

On album:

B-012(i) (A Wedding In Shtetl Lillian Lux Peseach & Mike Burstein — אַ חתונה אין שטעטל ליליאַן לוקס פּסח בורסטײן מײַק בורשטײן)

Track ID:

13455

Vocal:

Burstein, Mike — בורשטײַן, מײַק

Vocal:

Burstein, Peysekhke — בורשטײַן, פּסחקע

First line:

Der tate zitst zikh oyf zayn shtil, oy, shabos nukhn kugl,

First line (Yiddish):

דער טאַטע זיצט זיך אױף זײן שטיל, אױ, שבּת נאָכן קוגל,

Track comment:

From "A Khasene In Shtetl"

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Duet

On album:

L-014(c) (Jiddische Stikele/Jewish Songs From The Prague Ghetto/Trio Lorand/Jeno Kohn vocal/Marcel Lorand piano/)

Track ID:

34805

Vocal:

Kohn, Jeno

Piano:

Lorand, Marcel

Vocal:

Lorand Trio

First line:

Der tate zitst zikh oyf zayn shtil, oy, shabos nukhn kugl,

First line (Yiddish):

דער טאַטע זיצט זיך אױף זײן שטיל, אױ, שבּת נאָכן קוגל,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert

Length:

1:52

On album:

V0440 (Selected Video & DVD Clips of Klezmer, Folk and Theater Songs (Video))

Track ID:

41857

Vocal:

Burstein, Mike — בורשטײַן, מײַק

Vocal:

Burstein, Peysekhke — בורשטײַן, פּסחקע

First line:

Der tate zitst zikh oyf zayn shtul, shabos nokh dem kugl, arum im zitsn chasidim

First line (Yiddish):

דער טאַטע זיצט זיך אַויף זײַן שטול, שבּת נאָך דעם קוגל, אַרום אים זיצן יסידים

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Vaudeville/Pop

Length:

1:48

Recording

On album:

G-004(c) (Mink...Shmink (As Long As You're Healthy) Jenny Goldstein)

Track ID:

18612

Vocal:

Goldstein, Jennie — גאָלדשטייַן, דזשעני

First line:

Oy shoyn vider, oy tsuris mayner, shlof shoyn veytikn mayner

First line:

אוי שוין ווידער. אוי צורות מײַנער, שלאָף שוין ווייטעקן מײַנער,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish/Yinglish

Style:

Pop

Recordings

On album:

K-022(l) (Katz Puts On The Dog)

Track ID:

31289

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

Back-up:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

There's a mikve in a bathhouse in Shvitsberg, Pennsylvania…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English\Yiddish

Style:

Theatre/Klezmer

On album:

K-022(e) (Mickey Katz / Cassette of Recordings From 78's)

Track ID:

14371

Artist:

Katz, Mickey

First line:

There's a mikva in a bathhouse in Shvitsberg, Pennsylvania

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From Capital Record 2124

Recordings

On album:

K-030(d) (Kapelye On The Air Old Time Jewish American Radio)

Track ID:

22406

Artist:

Kapelye — קאַפּעליע

Vocal:

Sapoznik, Henry — סאַפּאָזניק, הענעך

First line:

I went to work in a delicatessen far draysik tolar un...

Track comment:

Part of WBBC Brooklyn, Brooklyn Talent Hunters

On album:

Y-022(a) (Yiddishe Cup Klezmer Band Klezmerized)

Track ID:

23799

Artist:

Weinberger, Irwin & Yidishe Cup

First line:

I went to work in a delicatessen far draysik tolar un...

On album:

K-022(j) (Mish Mosh Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31205

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

First line:

Oh, I went to woik in a delicatessen…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yinglish

Style:

Dialect/Yiddish Inflection

Length:

2:50

On album:

B-214(a) (Susan Bauer: von der khupe zum Klezkamp, Klezmer-Musik in New York)

Track ID:

42633

Artist:

Kapelye — קאַפּעליע

Vocal??:

Sapoznik, Henry — סאַפּאָזניק, הענעך

First line:

I went to work in a delicatessen far draysik tolar un...

Track comment:

Part of WBBC Brooklyn, Brooklyn Talent Hunters

Language:

Yiddish/Dialect

Style:

Humorous

Length:

4:38

Recordings

On album:

K-022(f) (Mickey Katz the star of Broadway's Borshtcapades)

Track ID:

21129

Vocal/Orchesta Leader:

Katz, Mickey

Artist:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

You're in the army,..., du bist nisht in der heym,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Parody of service marching song

Language:

Yinglish

On album:

K-022(d) (The Hits of Mickey Katz and his Orchestra)

Track ID:

42970

Vocal/ Orchestra Leader:

Katz, Mickey

Artist:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

You're in the army,..., du bist nisht in der heym,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Parody of service marching song

Language:

Yinglish

Recordings

On album:

B-062(a) (Don Byron plays the music of Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

19664

Author:

Portal, Moterrey & George Thorn

Artist:

Don Byron Orchestra

Vocal:

Sklamberg, Lorin

First line:

Oy, she's so sweet and gentle, oykhit (?) sentimental

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Cha Cha

On album:

K-022(l) (Katz Puts On The Dog)

Track ID:

31281

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

Back-up:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

Ohhh, she's so sweet and gentle…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Style:

Cha-Cha/ Klezmer

Recordings

On album:

K-022(e) (Mickey Katz / Cassette of Recordings From 78's)

Track ID:

15327

Artist:

Katz, Mickey

First line:

Senyor and senyoritas, shonyers and shnoryitos,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From Victor 25-5083A

On album:

K-022(l

Track ID:

31284

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

Back-up:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

Senors and Senoritas, shnorers and shnoreritas, bobenyu, zeydenyu….

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Spanish/Yiddish/English

Recording

On album:

K-022(c) (Mickey Katz Greatest Hits (Orig "Comin Round the Katzkills"))

Track ID:

16703

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Recitation

Recordings

On album:

G-067(d) (Di Gojim Fun Sjtetl un Sjtets — די גױיִם פֿון שטעטל און שטעץ)

Track ID:

31031

Drum/Vibraphone/"Toepan"/Backup Vocals:

Knaven, Vincent

Clarinet/Alto Sax/Soprano Sax/Tin Whistle/Lead Vocal:

Mulder, Jaap

Contra-Bass/Violin/Banjo/Guitar/Backup Vocals/Trombone:

Tseard, Nauta

Trumpet/Back-up Vocals:

van der Reijden, Sjaak

Bass Tuba/Bass Trombone/Violin/Whistle/Backup Vocals/Trombon:

Roelofsen, Eric

Accordion/Backup Vocals:

Sijtsma, Jacob

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert

On album:

K-030(c) (Kapelye's טשיקען Chicken)

Track ID:

16751

Artist:

Kapeyle and Michael Alpert — קעפּעליע און מיקעל אַלפּערט

Conductor:

Sapoznik, Henry — סאַפּאָזניק, הענעך

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob ikh keyn mi geshport,

First line:

קיין אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב איך קײן מי געשפּאָרט,

On album:

L-002(c) (Aaron Lebedeff Sings Fifteen Favorites of .. Yiddish Theatre)

Track ID:

16752

Artist:

Lebedeff, Aaron — לעבעדאָװ, אהרן

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob ikh keyn mi geshport,

First line:

קיין אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב איך קײן מי געשפּאָרט,

Track comment:

Recorded under "What Can You Mach S'iz America"

On album:

G-013(d)4 (Song of the Golden Land Lectures 07 and 08)

Track ID:

16753

Artist:

Lebedeff, Aaron — לעבעדאָװ, אהרן

Narration:

Katzman, Dr. Jacob

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob ikh keyn mi geshport,

First line:

קיין אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב איך קײן מי געשפּאָרט,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Lecture 7. Song of the Golden Land, Immigrants and Theatre

On album:

W-017(a) (The Wholesale Klezmer Band "Bop Till You Plotz")

Track ID:

16754

Artist:

Wholesale Klezmer Band

Vocal/Conductor:

Kurland, (Joe) Yosl — קורלאַנד, יוסל

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob ikh keyn mi geshport,

First line:

קיין אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב איך קײן מי געשפּאָרט,

On album:

T-007(j) (Dave Tarras Yiddish-American Klezmer Music 1925-1956)

Track ID:

16755

Vocal:

Lebedeff, Aaron — לעבעדאָװ, אהרן

Clarinet:

Tarras, Dave — טאַראַס, דײװ

Artist:

Alexander Olshanetsky Orchestra — אַלעקסאַנדער אָלשאַנעצקי אָרקעסטער

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob ikh keyn mi geshport,

First line:

קיין אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב איך קײן מי געשפּאָרט,

Track comment:

Recorded under "What Can You Mach S'is America"

On album:

G-067(b) (Di Gojim (Holland) Grine Medine)

Track ID:

21111

Artist:

Di Gojim (Netherlands) די גױעם (נידירלענדן)

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob ikh keyn mi geshport,

First line:

קיין אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב איך קײן מי געשפּאָרט,

On album:

S-068(b) (Shirim Klezmer Orchestra Naftule's Dream)

Track ID:

21443

Artist:

Silberman, Betty & Shirim Klezmer

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob ikh keyn mi geshport,

First line (Yiddish):

קיין אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב איך קײן מי געשפּאָרט,

Language:

Yiddish

On album:

A-035(a) (Lomp Nokh Nit Farloshn Jiddische Lieder Gruppe Aufwind — לאָמפּ נאָך נישט פֿאַרלאָשן)

Track ID:

21661

Artist:

Aufwind

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob ikh keyn mi geshport,

First line (Yiddish):

קיין אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב איך קײן מי געשפּאָרט,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer

On album:

K-059(e) (Daniel Kempin, Dimitry Reznik Benkshaft — בענקשאַפֿט)

Track ID:

26943

Arranger:

Resnik, Dimitry

Artist:

Kempin, Daniel

Violin:

Resnik, Dimitry

Arranger:

Kempin, Daniel

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob ikh keyn mi geshport,

First line:

קיין אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב איך קײן מי געשפּאָרט,

On album:

K-093(a) (Klezmer / Yiddish Swing Music)

Track ID:

30799

Vocal:

Lebedeff, Aaron — לעבעדאָװ, אהרן

Artist:

Olshanetsky, Alexander — אָלשאַנעצקי, אַלעקסאַנדער

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob zikh nit geshport, hob gedenkt aroptsulozn…

First line (Yiddish):

קייִן אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב זיך מיט געשפּאָרט, האָב געדענקט אַראָפּצולאָזן און...

Track comment:

Originally Recorded 1929

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Pop

On album:

039j (Lebedeff, Aaron/ Vot Ken Yu Makh? S'iz Amerike/ Khasene In Tshidzeve)

Track ID:

29928

Artist:

Lebedeff, Aaron — לעבעדאָװ, אהרן

On album:

B-214(a) (Susan Bauer: von der khupe zum Klezkamp, Klezmer-Musik in New York)

Track ID:

42625

Vocal:

Lebedeff, Aaron — לעבעדאָװ, אהרן

Artist:

Alexander Olshanetsky Orchestra — אַלעקסאַנדער אָלשאַנעצקי אָרקעסטער

First line:

Keyn amerike tsu kumen, hob zikh nit geshport, hob gedenkt aroptsulozn…

First line (Yiddish):

קיין אַמעריקע צו קומען, האָב זיך מיט געשפּאָרט, האָב געדענקט אַראָפּצולאָזן און...

Track comment:

Originally Recorded 1929

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Pop/Klezmer/Theater

Length:

3:18

Recordings

On album:

S-047(b) (Mazel Tov! More Music Of The Jewish People)

Track ID:

21434

Artist:

Howard, Willie

First line:

I nearly dead, oy vat a head, how I wish I vas home in my...

Track comment:

When Nathan was mmarried to Rose of Washington Square,

On album:

F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)

Track ID:

28543

Vocal:

Howard, Willie

First line:

I was nearly dead, oy vot a head, how I wish I was home in my bed,

Track comment:

Originally recorded Sep 3, 1925, Columbia 455D/ Unknown Orchestra

Language:

English

Recordings

On album:

K-022(e) (Mickey Katz / Cassette of Recordings From 78's)

Track ID:

17000

Artist:

Katz, Mickey

First line:

Why don't you believe me, its you I adore, for ever and ever

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From Capital Record 2370

On album:

K-022(j) (Mish Mosh Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31210

First line:

Why don't you believe me, it's you I adore…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Length:

3:05

Recordings

On album:

F-009(c) (Para Cantar y Reir Leo Fuchs - Freidele Oysher — ייִדישער הומאָר)

Track ID:

17494

Artist:

Fuchs, Leo — פֿוקס, לעאָ

First line:

Ven ikh her redn yidish, fil ikh azoy vi yidish sheyn...

First line:

װען איך הער רעדן ייִדיש, פֿיל איך אַזױ װי ייִדיש שײן...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

On album:

K-031(b) (Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set/ The Tikva Records Story 1950-1973)

Track ID:

36777

Vocal:

Fuchs, Leo — פֿוקס, לעאָ

First line:

Ven ikh her redn yidish, fil ikh azoyn negidish, sheyn ful mit kheyn,…

First line (Yiddish):

ווען איך הער רעדן יידיש, …

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Pop

Length:

3:10

Recording

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27650

Vocal:

Schwartz, William — שוואַרץ, וויליאַם

First line:

Amerika iz a farkerter velt, a golden land far narunim,

First line (Yiddish):

אַמעריקאַ איז אַ פֿאַרקערטער װעלט, אַ גאָלדען לאַנד פֿאַר נאַרונים,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia E7625 From musical-Di Voyle Yungen

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Tenor

Recordings

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27654

Vocalist:

Goldstein, Gus

First line:

A butsherl a kinstler, bin ikh...

First line (Yiddish):

אַ בוטשערל, אַ קינסטער, בין איך...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia 8035F 78 Box 002, Tape 19

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Tenor

On album:

055p (Goldstein, Morris/ Der Rebe Zol Lebn/ Dos Butsherl)

Track ID:

30368

Artist:

Goldstein, Morris — גאָלדשטייַן, מאָריס

Language:

Yiddish

On album:

002b (Goldstein, Morris/ Dos Butsherl/ Nemt A Chance)

Track ID:

28811

Artist:

Goldstein, Morris — גאָלדשטייַן, מאָריס

Language:

Yiddish

On album:

L-059(a) (Lider Fun Boydem 2/Di Beste Lider Fun 78 Platen/Songs From The Attic/The Best of 78 Records/ Ikh Lib Dikh — לידער פֿון בוידעם 2\די בעסטע לידער פֿון 78 פּלאַטען\ איך ליב דיך)

Track ID:

32957

Vocal:

Brun, Max — ברון, מאַקס

First line:

A katsef, a kinstler, bin ikh eyner,

First line (Yiddish):

אַ קצבֿ, אַ קינסטער, בין איך איינער,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Vaudeville

Length:

2:57

Recording

On album:

L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)

Track ID:

27655

Vocalist:

Goldstein, Gus

First line:

A boy geyt mit a meydl fun arum a lange tsayt,

First line (Yiddish):

אַ בױ גײט מיט אַ מײדל פֿון אַרום אַ לאַנגע צײַט,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Columbia 8035F 78 Box 002, Tape 19

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Tenor

Recording

On album:

R-012(e) (Sholem Aleichem, Lakhn Iz Gezunt Performed by Shammai Rosenblum — שלום עליכם לאַכן איז געזונט אױסגעפֿירט פֿון שמאי רוזנבלום)

Track ID:

27702

Monologue:

Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי

First line:

Flowery Hebrew Introduction

Track comment:

Menakhm MendlFun Yehupets Tsu...Sheyne Sheyndl In Kasrilivke

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Reading/Monologue/Humor

Recording

On album:

R-012(e) (Sholem Aleichem, Lakhn Iz Gezunt Performed by Shammai Rosenblum — שלום עליכם לאַכן איז געזונט אױסגעפֿירט פֿון שמאי רוזנבלום)

Track ID:

27703

Monologue:

Rosenblum, Shami — רוזנבלום, שמאי

First line:

Flowery Hebrew Introduction

Track comment:

Sheyne Sheyndl Tsu Ir Man In Yehupets

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Reading/Monologue/Humor

Recording

On album:

K-026(m) (Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World To Our World)

Track ID:

28083

Vocal:

Lebedeff, Aaron — לעבעדאָװ, אהרן

Artist:

Peretz Sandler's Orchestra — פּרץ סאַנדלערס אָרקעסטער

First line:

Ekh! Runmenye, vi nemt men nokh a land a zoyne, Akh rumenye, aza land a zise..

First line (Yiddish):

עך, רומעניע, װי נעמט מען אַ לאַנד אַ זױנע, אַך רומעניע, אַזאַ...

Track comment:

Originally recorded 1925

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Pop

Recordings

On album:

S-100(a) (The San Francisco Klezmer Experience Zing!)

Track ID:

28329

Violins:

Hoffman, Daniel

Vocal/Accordion/Arranger:

Lewicki, Jeanette

Drums/Dumbeq:

Mummey, Kevin

Bass:

Saunders, Richard

Trumpet/Rotary Trumpet/Cornet/Alto Horn:

Saxon, Stephen

Trombone:

Seavey, Charlie

Cello:

Sedler, Moses

Artist:

San Francisco Klezmer Experience

Cymbalom/Tuba:

Brotman, Stuart

B flat, E flat, Turkish G Clarinets/Piccolo:

Benjamin, Sheldon

Arranger:

San Francisco Klezmer Experience

First line:

Hot moyshe-leyb zikh anidergeshtelt in mitn der nakht, tsu dertrakhtn di velt

First line (Yiddish):

האָט משה-לײב זיך אַנידערגעשטעלט אין מיטן דער נאַכט,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Waltz/Concert/Traditional Music

Length:

02:46

On album:

L-044(c) (Ruth Levin/Geheyme Gest/Secret Guests — געהיימע געסט \ אורחי סתרים)

Track ID:

36226

Vocal:

Levin, Ruth — לוין, רותּ

Guitar/Arranger:

Belousov, Alexi

First line:

Hot moishe-leib zikh anidergeshtelt in mitn der nakht, tsu dertrakhtn der velt

First line (Yiddish):

האָט משה-לײב זיך אַנידערגעשטעלט אין מיטן דער נאַכט,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert

Length:

2:10

On album:

G-112(a) (The Gonifs — די גנבֿים)

Track ID:

36953

Violin:

Segelstein, Cookie

Vocal/Accordion/Arranger:

Lewicki, Jeanette

Drums:

Kierbel, Aaron

Trumpet:

Johnston, Darren

Clarinet:

Jacques, Peter

Toy Piano:

Horowitz, Joshua

Bass:

Fabricant, Daniel

Glockenspiel:

Brotman, Stuart

Artist:

The Gonifs — די גנבֿים

First line:

Hot moyshe-leyb zikh anidergeshtelt in mitn der nakht, tsu dertrakhtn di velt

First line (Yiddish):

האָט משה־לײב זיך אַנידערגעשטעלט אין מיטן דער נאַכט,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Doyne

Length:

03:19

Recording

On album:

F-045(a)1 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 1)

Track ID:

28513

Vocal:

Bowshower, Dora

First line:

Der rebe iz a goan, zeyer a groyser tsadik, fun ale ekn velt krigt fun im a..

First line (Yiddish):

דער רבי איז אַ גאָון, זייער אַ גרױסער צדיק, פֿון אַלע עקן װעלט, קריגט פֿון אים אַ...

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Pop/Theatre

Recording

On album:

F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)

Track ID:

28541

Vocal:

Rose, Julian

First line:

Hello everbody, say, I want to tell you something, no, I didn't tell you...

Track comment:

Originally Recorded 1922, Edison Records/ Unknown Orchestra

Language:

English

Style:

Dialect/Jazz/Dixieland

Recording

On album:

F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)

Track ID:

28544

Vocal:

The Happiness Boys

Vocal:

Jones, Billy

Vocal:

Hare, Earnest

First line:

Oy, oy gevald! Vot's di matter, Abram? Did you see the Yiddishe journal...

Language:

English

Style:

Immigrant Dialect/Duet

Length:

03:09

Recordings

On album:

F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)

Track ID:

28552

Violin:

Venuti, Joe

Piano:

Wall, Phil

First line:

One two three four, five four three, one two three four, who are we

Track comment:

Originally recorded May 31, 1933

Language:

English

Style:

Harmony

Length:

03:18

On album:

G-057(c) (Funny It Doesn't Sound Jewish/ Compilation by Jack Gottlieb accompaning book with same title.)

Track ID:

31656

Artist:

Paul Whiteman Orchestra

First line:

We really think you ought to know that we were born right in the middle of...

Language:

English

Style:

Four Part Harmony/Pop/Orchestral/

Length:

3:10

Recording

On album:

H-039(a) (Songs Are All I Have/ The Musical Heritage Of Vladimir Heifetz — לידער-אַלץ װאָס איך פֿאַרמאָג \ די מוזיקאַלישע ירושה פֿון װלאַדימיר חפֿץ)

Track ID:

28581

Vocal:

Ben Ze'ev, Re'ut

Piano:

Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)

First line:

Zibn fley hobn zikh farputst in hitlen, shnipsen ongeton, shtivelekh bashtelt

First line (Yiddish):

זיבן פֿליי האָבן זיך פֿאַרפּוצט אין היטלען, שניפּסען אונגעטאַן, שטיװעלעך באַשטעלט

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert/Art Song

Length:

04:31

Recording

On album:

M-003(h) (Jidische Teater Songs/ Di Megile /Kischef/ Gan Eden/ — די מגילה \ האָצמאַך שפּיל \ חומש לידער)

Track ID:

28688

Artist:

Die Megille Band

Vocal:

Rock Theater Dresden

First line:

Itsik shpitsik, got mit dir, loyf un koyf a fleshl bir. Loyf un koyf a...

First line (Yiddish):

איציק שפּיטציק, גאָט מיט דיר, לױף און קױף אַ פֿלעשל ביר, לױף און קױף אַ...

Track comment:

Recorded under "Krasavitse"

Language:

Yiddish

Length:

2' 02"

Recordings

On album:

019b (Silberbush & Miller/ Der Tsadik Geyt In Triater/ Kalmen Shadkhn Un Suzi Bren)

Track ID:

29312

Artist:

Miller, Suzy — מילר, סוזי

Artist:

Silberbush, Sam

On album:

A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)

Track ID:

36106

Vocal:

Silverbush, Sam

Vocal:

Miller, Suzy — מילר, סוזי

First line:

A taynik tsu zayn a yid, zol ikh gezunt zayn, ay vey, vist azoy...

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word

Length:

3:26

Recordings

On album:

M-047(e) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection C)

Track ID:

35681

Vocal:

Feldman, Joseph

First line:

Ah, hello Moyshe Kapoyer, goodbye, grist ayer yidene, vos far a goodby?

First line (Yiddish):

אַ, העלאָ משה קאַפֿויער, גאָדבײַ, גריסט אײַער ידענע, וואָס פֿאַר אַ גאָדבײַ

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Klezmer/Vaudeville

Length:

3:13

On album:

014g (Kasten Sam - Feldman, Joe/ Kolumbuses Medine/ Moyshe Kapoyer)

Track ID:

29192

Artist:

Kasten Sam - Feldman, Joe

First line:

Ah, hello Moyshe Kapoyer, goodbye,grist ayer yidene, vos far a goodby?

First line (Yiddish):

אַ, העלאָ משה קאַפּויער, גאָדבײַ, גריסט אײַער ידענע, וואָס פֿאַר אַ גאָדבײַ

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Klezmer/Vaudeville

Recordings

On album:

017b (Katz, Mickey & Orch/ Herring Boats/ Sin)

Track ID:

29259

Orchestra Leader:

Katz, Mickey

Artist:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

On album:

K-022(l) (Katz Puts On The Dog)

Track ID:

31288

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

Back-up:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

You take away the breathe of knobl...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Theatre

Recordings

On album:

019e (Tanzman, Jos & Zeeman, Anna/ Der Italiener/ Fish Oyf Shabos)

Track ID:

29317

Artist:

Tanzman, Yosef — טאַנזמאַן, יוסף

Artist:

Zeeman, Anna

On album:

A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)

Track ID:

36095

Vocal:

Tanzman, Yosef — טאַנזמאַן, יוסף

Vocal:

Zeeman, Anna

First line:

Nu, got aykh danken, ikh hob shoyn gebensht likh oyf shabos,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Sketch/Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Spoken Word

Length:

3:25

Recordings

On album:

019b (Silberbush & Miller/ Der Tsadik Geyt In Triater/ Kalmen Shadkhn Un Suzi Bren)

Track ID:

29311

Artist:

Miller, Suzy — מילר, סוזי

Artist:

Silberbush, Sam

On album:

A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)

Track ID:

36105

Vocal:

Silverbush, Sam

Vocal:

Miller, Suzy — מילר, סוזי

First line:

..mayn man, a klug tsu dir, vi bistu geven azoy shpet, di vetshera...

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word

Length:

3:00

Recordings

On album:

047a (Barton Brothers/ Joe and Paul/)

Track ID:

37736

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Audio courtesy of Geoffrey Lerner, Yorba Linda, CA

Language:

Yiddish, part 2

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

On album:

G-013(c) (The Golden Land, a joyous new musical Original Cast Album)

Track ID:

7652

Author:

Barton Brothers

Artist:

Krause, Mark

Accomp:

Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra

Orchestration:

Sokolow, Pete — סוקולוב, פּסח

Artist:

Kapelye — קאַפּעליע

First line:

A gutn frimorgn aykh, mayne libe radio tsuherers,

First line:

אַ גוטן פֿרימאָרגן אײַך, מײַנע ליבע ראַדיאָ צוהערערס,

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

On album:

047a (Barton Brothers/ Joe and Paul/)

Track ID:

30116

Artist:

Barton Brothers

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Audio courtesy of Geoffrey Lerner, Yorba Linda, CA

Language:

Yiddish, part 1

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

On album:

B-072(c) (The Barton Brothers Jewish Comedy Songs)

Track ID:

32743

Singers/ Comedians:

Barton Brothers

First line:

Ya, Ya, Yubay, Yubabay, Yububay, WBVD…

Track comment:

Parts 1 & 2

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

On album:

K-030(d) (Kapelye On The Air Old Time Jewish American Radio)

Track ID:

22407

Artist:

Sokolow, Pete — סוקולוב, פּסח

Accomp:

Kapelye — קאַפּעליע

First line:

Joe and Paul..a farganign, Joe and Paul, dos vet ir bilig...

Track comment:

Part of WBBC Brooklyn, Brooklyn Talent Hunters

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

On album:

V-005(a)2 (The Best of Yiddish Vaudeville Vol 2)

Track ID:

24275

Author/Artist:

Barton Brothers

First line:

Yay bay yababa yababay bay bay, WVBD, hay bab a rebab,

First line:

יאײַ בײַ יאַבאַבאַ יאַבאַבײַ בײַ בײַ, WVBD, הײ באַב אַ ריבאַב,

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

On album:

B-072(a) (Joe & Paul Meet Cockeye Jenny / Barton Brothers / Jewish Comedy Songs)

Track ID:

24283

Author/Artist:

Barton Brothers

First line:

Yay bay yababa yababay bay bay, WVBD, hay bab a rebab,

First line (Yiddish, part 1):

יאײַ בײַ יאַבאַבאַ יאַבאַבײַ בײַ בײַ, WVBD, הײ באַב אַ ריבאַב,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish, part 1

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

On album:

B-072(a) (Joe & Paul Meet Cockeye Jenny / Barton Brothers / Jewish Comedy Songs)

Track ID:

24284

Author/Artist:

Barton Brothers

First line:

Cut, speech, mir brengen aykh yetst finuf minit fun der...

First line (Yiddish, part 2):

קוט, שפּיש, מיר ברענגען אײַך יעצט פּיניף מיניט פֿון דער...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish, part 2

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

On album:

L-047(a) (L'Chaim Music of the Jewish People)

Track ID:

26527

Artist:

Carroll, Irv & Orchestra

Vocal:

Barton Brothers

First line:

Yay bay yababa yababay bay bay, WVBD, hay bab a rebab,

First line:

יאײַ בײַ יאַבאַבאַ יאַבאַבײַ בײַ בײַ, WVBD, הײ באַב אַ ריבאַב,

Track comment:

Recorded 1947

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

On album:

A-027(b) (Bruce Adler An Evening At The Yiddish Theatre -Act II-)

Track ID:

26490

Author:

Barton Brothers

Composer:

Secunda, Sholom — סעקונדאַ, שלום

Artist:

Adler, Bruce

Artist:

Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)

First line:

A gutn frimorgn aykh, mayne libe radio tsuherers,

First line:

אַ גוטן פֿרימאָרגן אײַך, מײַנע ליבע ראַדיאָ צוהערערס,

Track comment:

Recorded under WEVD/Joe & Paul's Sung with "WEVD Melody"

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

On album:

J-069(a) (The Jewish Songbook: The Heart and Humor of a People)

Track ID:

42750

Vocal/Tambourine:

Shaffer, Paul

Vocal:

Belzer, Richard

Conductor/Piano/Arranger:

Della, Joe

Bass:

Leonhart, Jay

Drums:

Pelton, Shawn

Clarinet:

Musiker, Ray

Trumpet:

Soloff, Lou

Violin:

Svigals, Alicia

First line:

Yom bom bom..WEVD, oy..delicious,..yom bom..WEVD, oy get your free card,..

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Klezmer

Length:

3:15

Recording

On album:

058k (Mickey Katz/ Heym Oyfn Range/ Yiddish Square Dance)

Track ID:

30502

Track comment:

Parody of "Home on the Range"

Language:

Yiddish

Recording

On album:

058k (Mickey Katz/ Heym Oyfn Range/ Yiddish Square Dance)

Track ID:

30503

Recording

On album:

059b (Annie Lubin/ Gevald Rooms/ Yontif)

Track ID:

30512

Vocal:

Lubin, Annie

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Vaudeville

Recording

On album:

059b (Annie Lubin/ Gevald Rooms/ Yontif)

Track ID:

30513

Vocal:

Lubin, Annie

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Vaudeville

Recordings

On album:

A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)

Track ID:

36101

First line:

Hello missus fine, hello missus vine, vohin geyt ir, in turkishn bod,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word

Length:

3:34

On album:

059f (Hoffman, Anna/ Jacobs, Betty/ Hoffman, Anna/ Jacobs, Jacob/ Froyen Nakht in a Terkishe Bod/ Yenta Beim Dentist)

Track ID:

30565

Speaker:

Hoffman, Anna

Speaker:

Jacobs, Betty — דזהייקאָבס, בעטי

Language:

Yiddish

Recordings

On album:

A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)

Track ID:

36102

Vocal:

Hoffman, Anna

Vocal:

Jacobs, Betty — דזהייקאָבס, בעטי

First line:

Shoyn, du bist tseyn doktor, anshuldikt missus, do voynt nishto a tseyn doktor,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word

Length:

3:23

On album:

059f (Hoffman, Anna/ Jacobs, Betty/ Hoffman, Anna/ Jacobs, Jacob/ Froyen Nakht in a Terkishe Bod/ Yenta Beim Dentist)

Track ID:

30566

Speaker:

Jacobs, Jacob — זשאַקאָבס, זשאַקאָב

Speaker:

Hoffman, Anna

Language:

Yiddish

Recording

On album:

060i (Hoffman, Anna/ Goldstein, Gus Goldstein/ Bayzir Zikh Nit Mendl/ Mendl Bist A Sheyner (Kol Shadi))

Track ID:

30589

Vocal:

Goldstein, Gus

Vocal:

Hoffman, Anna

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Comic Duet with orchestra

Recording

On album:

M-067(a) (The Badkhan Speaks/ R' Yankel Miller Live In English)

Track ID:

30649

Vocal:

Miller, Rabbi Yankel — מילער, ר' יאַנקל

Language:

English

Style:

Stand Up Comedy Monologue

Recording

On album:

Z-014(f) (Klezmer: Café Jew Zoo: Yale Strom with Hot Pstromi & Klezzj)

Track ID:

30824

Arranger/Violin:

Strom, Yale

Arranger/Bass:

Pekarek, Jeff

Bongos:

Perry, Gene

Vocals:

Schwartz, Elizabeth

Tenor Sax:

Sprague, Tripp

First line:

Mit a noz vi a shoyfar un mit tales un tfiln, geyt yekele der royfer, in shul,..

First line (Yiddish):

מיט אַ נאָז ווי אַ שופֿר, און מיט טלית און תּפֿילין, גייט יעקעלע דער רויפֿער טין שול

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Pop/Cabaret

Length:

4:31

Recordings

On album:

V0063 (Abraham Luski / Pilke Fus (Video) — פּילקע פֿוס)

Track ID:

30929

Vocal:

Luski, Abraham (Abe) לוסקי, אַבֿרהם

First line:

Ikh bin, vi ir zet mikh, a litvak fun minsker gubernie. Shabos nokh shvues ver..

First line (Yiddish):

איך בין, ווי איר זעט מיך, אַ ליטוואַק פֿון מינסקער גובערניע. שבּת נאָך שבֿועת ווער..

Track comment:

Recorded under title "Pilke Fus"

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Monologue/Sketch

On album:

013b (Rosenberg, Mikhl/ Getzel At A Football Game/ A Society Shlemiel)

Track ID:

29139

Artist:

Rosenberg, Mikhl — ראָזענבערג, מיכל

Recording

On album:

K-022(j) (Mish Mosh Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31206

First line:

On Pitkin Avenue in old Brooklyn, when boy meets girl…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Style:

Dialect/Yiddish inflection

Length:

2:33

Recording

On album:

K-022(j) (Mish Mosh Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31207

First line:

She's the sweetest little tsatske that Texas ever knew…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yinglish

Style:

Dialect/Yiddish Inflection

Length:

2:34

Recording

On album:

K-022(j) (Mish Mosh Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31208

First line:

Tweedlee tweedlee tweedlee dee, Sadie you're the girl for me…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yinglish

Style:

Dialect/Yiddish Inflection

Length:

2:49

Recording

On album:

K-022(j) (Mish Mosh Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31209

First line:

Take a choo-choo train to Casablanke, there you'll find a continental Yanke…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Style:

Dialect/ Yiddish inflection

Length:

3:23

Recording

On album:

K-022(j) (Mish Mosh Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31211

First line:

Thirty-one red! You loose!...I'm a schlemiel of fortune…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yinglish

Style:

Dialect/ Yiddish Inflection

Length:

2:39

Recording

On album:

K-022(j) (Mish Mosh Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31213

First line:

I patcha-you, you patcha-me and everything goes mishige…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Length:

2:27

Recording

On album:

K-022(j) (Mish Mosh Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31214

First line:

How much is that pickle in the window, the one that's on top of…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Recording

On album:

K-022(j) (Mish Mosh Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31212

First line:

I gave her the oyg she was sitting on the bus…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yinglish

Style:

Dialect/Yiddish Inflection

Length:

2:24

Recording

On album:

K-022(k) (The Borscht Jester Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31273

First line:

I want to tell you a little story about a grandma…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Recording

On album:

K-022(k) (The Borscht Jester Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31274

First line:

You know friends, there has been a resurgence of religion all over the world…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Recording

On album:

K-022(k) (The Borscht Jester Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31275

First line:

You know folks, some of the greatest stories come from within the family circle

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Recording

On album:

K-022(k) (The Borscht Jester Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31276

First line:

You know friends many of our great show business stars got their start…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Recording

On album:

K-022(k) (The Borscht Jester Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31277

First line:

You know friends, everybody loves a simkhe, a happy occasion…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Recording

On album:

K-022(k) (The Borscht Jester Mickey Katz)

Track ID:

31278

First line:

You know friends, since the War was over in 1945…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Recording

On album:

K-022(l) (Katz Puts On The Dog)

Track ID:

31279

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

Vocal:

Unidentified Female Vocalist

Back-up:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

Lover, lover, hey jealous lover, why are you so mekhane…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English/Yiddish

Style:

Theatre/Vaudeville

Recording

On album:

K-022(l) (Katz Puts On The Dog)

Track ID:

31280

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

Back-up:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

You ain't nothing but a doity dog, klugin' all the time…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English/ Yiddish

Style:

Rock and Roll/ Klezmer

Recording

On album:

K-022(l) (Katz Puts On The Dog)

Track ID:

31285

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

Back-up:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

Feet up, pat him on the pipik, lets here him laugh…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English/Yiddish

Style:

Theatre/Klezmer

Recording

On album:

K-022(l) (Katz Puts On The Dog)

Track ID:

31290

Vocal:

Katz, Mickey

Back-Up:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

In New York there are the Ketskill mountains, Fallsburg and Ferndale keeps you…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English/Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Klezmer

Recording

On album:

S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)

Track ID:

31291

Vocal:

Sherman, Allan

First line:

Al and Yetta always sit togetha, watching TV every single night…

Language:

English

Style:

Theatre

Recording

On album:

S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)

Track ID:

31292

Vocal:

Sherman, Allan

First line:

We'll call him Barry, Barry, that'll be the baby's name…

Language:

English

Style:

Theatre

Recording

On album:

S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)

Track ID:

31295

Vocal:

Sherman, Allan

First line:

It's the let's call up A.T. & T and protest to the president march…

Language:

English

Style:

Theatre

Recording

On album:

S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)

Track ID:

31296

Vocal:

Sherman, Allan

First line:

Harvey and Sheila (3x), oh the day they met…

Language:

English

Style:

Theatre

Recording

On album:

S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)

Track ID:

31297

Vocal:

Sherman, Allan

First line:

When Benjamin Disraeli was prime minister of England, and good…

Language:

English

Style:

Theatre

Recording

On album:

S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)

Track ID:

31298

Vocal:

Sherman, Allan

First line:

We would now like to salute all the beautiful singing groups…

Language:

English

Style:

Theatre

Recording

On album:

S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)

Track ID:

31299

Vocal:

Sherman, Allan

First line:

When I was a lad, I went to Yale and I knew then I could never fail…

Language:

English

Style:

Theatre

Recording

On album:

S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)

Track ID:

31300

Vocal:

Sherman, Allan

First line:

Counting both feet, I have ten toes, they're not lady toes…

Language:

English

Style:

Theatre

Recording

On album:

S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)

Track ID:

31301

First line:

She wheels her wheelbarrow, through streets that are narrow…

Style:

Klezmer/Theatre

Recording

On album:

S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)

Track ID:

31294

Vocal:

Sherman, Allan

First line:

On a branch of a tree sat a little tom tit, singing "willow, tit, willow."

Language:

English

Style:

Theatre

Recording

On album:

xR-029(a)

Track ID:

2538

Adapted Music:

Rockoff, Seymour

Vocal:

Rechnitzer Rejects

Arranger:

Yotzenpress, Muchi

First line:

Shoyn tseyt genig, ikh for tsurik, tsu du mayn tayere,

First line (Yiddish):

שױן צײַט געניג, איך פֿאָר צוריק, צו דו מײַן טײַערע מײַן באָראָ פּאַרק,

Track comment:

See "New York New York" "יאָרק ניו ,יאָרק "ניו

Language:

Yiddish

Recording

On album:

S-015(a)

Track ID:

2612

Author:

Schwartz, Teddi, Yid — שװאַרץ, טעדי, ייַדיש

Translator/Vocal:

Schwartz, Teddi — שװאַרץ, טעדי

First line:

Bronfn, oy bronfn, oy her vi ikh shray, ven me hot in...

First line (Yiddish):

בראָנפֿן, אױ בראָנפֿן, אױ הער װי איך שרײַ, װען מע האָט אין זיך...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Text and Transliteration with album notes

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Folk/Humorous

Recordings

On album:

B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)

Track ID:

33452

Vocal:

Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב

First line:

Freg ikh bay mayn liber froy, vi azoy tsu endikn dos roman, in mayn bikhele--

First line (Yiddish):

פֿרעג איך נײַ מײַן ליבער פֿרוי, ווי אַזוי צו ענדיקן דאָס ראָמאַן אין מײַן ביכעלע

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Spoken Word

Length:

1:29

On album:

B-036(c) (The Many Faces of Yiddish Poetry read by Abe Brumberg)

Track ID:

33453

Vocal:

Brumberg, Abe — ברומבערג, אייב

English Adaption:

Harshav, Benjamin

English Adaption:

Harshav, Barbara

First line:

So I ask may dear wife how to finish the affair of my little booky,

Language:

English

Style:

Spoken Word

Length:

1:31

On album:

R-050(a) (Rogow /Taybele and Her Demon And Other Selections From Yiddish Literature — טײַבעלע און הורמיזאַ און אַנדערע שאַפֿונגען פֿון דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור)

Track ID:

32644

Vocal:

Rogow, David — ראָגאָװ, דוד

First line:

Freg ikh bay mayn liber froy, vi azoy tsu farendikn dem roman in mayn bikhele,

First line (Yiddish):

,פֿרעג איך בײַ מײַן ליבער פֿרוי, ווי אַזוי צו פֿאַרענדיקן דען ראָמאַן אין מײַן ביכעלע

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Spoken Word

Length:

2:22

Recording

On album:

S-105(a) (Shalom Comrade! / Yiddish Music in the Soviet Union 1928-1961)

Track ID:

32799

Vocal:

Shulman, Zinovi — שולמאַן, ז.

Piano:

Kaletskii, S.

First line:

Hey, Pastekh, shpil mir a volekh, gelt mezumen bald dir tsoln,

First line (Yiddish):

היי פּאַסטעך, שפּיל מיר אַ וואָלוך, געלט מזומן באַלד דיר צאָלן,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert/Folk

Length:

3:03

Recording

On album:

W-035(a) (Hy Wolfe sings Lider far der Neshome/ Yiddish Songs for the Soul — לידער פֿאַר די נשמה)

Track ID:

32838

Vocal:

Wolfe, Hy — וואָלף, חיים

Arranger:

Kaplan, Herbert — קאַפּלאַן, הערשל

First line:

Hey, Shiyeh! Take a piece of that pickled herring. Draw me a picture,

Language:

English

Style:

Vaudville/Blues/Parody

Length:

3:53

Recording

On album:

G-076(a) (Gefilte Joe and the Fish Hanukah Rocks!)

Track ID:

32924

Vocals and Music:

Gefilte Joe and the Fish

First line:

There's a time of year that's filled with joy…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Style:

Pop

Length:

3:52

Recordings

On album:

G-076(a) (Gefilte Joe and the Fish Hanukah Rocks!)

Track ID:

32925

Vocals and Music:

Gefilte Joe and the Fish

First line:

Yankl quit the west side AZA, went cross town, joined the YMCA, so bacon…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Style:

Folk/Pop/Soft Rock

Length:

3:34

On album:

N-031(a) (Now That Sounds Kosher)

Track ID:

33814

Upright Bass/Fretless Bass Guitar:

Croy, Danny

Drums:

Logeman, Dave

Aucoustic and Electric Guitar:

Kaniger, Marty

Clarinet:

Goro, Zinovy

Arp String Ensemble:

Wayne, Bob

Artist:

Yid Rock

Lead Vocal:

Cohen, Mark

Backing Vocals:

Limeres, Rosanne

Backing Vocals:

Christensen, Kristi

First line:

Yankl quit the west side AZA, went cross town, joined the YMCA, so bacon…

Language:

English

Style:

Folk/Pop/Soft Rock

Length:

3:53

Recording

On album:

G-076(a) (Gefilte Joe and the Fish Hanukah Rocks!)

Track ID:

32926

Vocals and Music:

Gefilte Joe and the Fish

First line:

There's a New Bro' Huslling 'round the Disco Hall…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Style:

Funk/ Disco

Length:

2:34

Recording

On album:

G-076(a) (Gefilte Joe and the Fish Hanukah Rocks!)

Track ID:

32927

Vocals and Music:

Gefilte Joe and the Fish

First line:

Oy, Boy, Bubba, Bubba, Boy…Now what you hear is not some crap…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Style:

Funk/Wrap

Length:

2:25

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32928

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

President Nasser, all the parties that have been trying to reach you…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recordings

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32929

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

And now the UN in condjunction with the UJA…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Announcement

On album:

F-028(a) (Sholem Aleykhem Yidn! / Forward Hour, WEVD / December 29, 1974)

Track ID:

34641

Announcer:

Plavin, Frank

Announcer:

Scooler, Tsvi — סקולער, צבֿי

First line:

(not intelligible), di yidishe tsaytung in di gantse velt…

First line (Yiddish):

די ייִדישע צײַטונג אין די גאַנצע װעלט...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Radio broadcast of "Sholem Aleykhm, Yidn!"

Language:

Yiddish

On album:

W-045(b) (Michael Winograd/Storm Game)

Track ID:

39326

bass:

Fox-Rosen, Benjy

tsimbl:

Horowitz, Joshua

violin:

Strauss, Deborah

clarinet:

Winograd, Michael — ווינאָגראַד, מ.

accordion:

Farrell, Patrick

piano:

Fort, Anat

Style:

Instrumental

Length:

3:38

On album:

A-003(j) (Holiday Tales by Sholem Aleichem/Read by Rita Karin & David Rogow — לכּבֿוד יום-טובֿ)

Track ID:

34797

Announcer:

Cohen, Robert

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32930

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

…eyn, tsvey, dray, fir, I wish I were in Egypt, hoo ha…

Language:

English/Yiddish

Style:

Humorous/Sketch & Song

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32931

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

Can you pass the khreyn and a shtikl gefilte fish too?

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32932

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

Hi, this is Ike Wireless bringing you the Israeli war…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch/Broadcast

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32933

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

Meanwhile back in America…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32934

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

I call this rally to order…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32935

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

Back in the Mideast legends are being born…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32936

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

Flying 20,000 feet over the Sinai Desert, limiping home is an Israeli aircraft..

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32937

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

We take you now to the middle of the desert where the Sphinx will speak…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32938

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

…W.A.R.A.B. Fellow Arabs, this is our final message to the world…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32939

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

Welcome to "Don't Mess With The Press"…

Track comment:

Ficticious interview with Moyshe Dayan

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32940

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

A four hour pass in the desert, I wonder where I'll go…

Track comment:

Parody on Candid Camera

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32941

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

This is John Caramel Tsimes reporting to you…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32942

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

Rodger Dudd here, I'm at Israeli Army Headquarters in Tel-Aviv…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32943

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

Ooo-oo, good evening tonight we're going to present the Willy Shakespeare…

Language:

English

Style:

Humous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32944

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

Tayvel(?) we just captured an Arab spy…

Track comment:

Spoof on "You Bet Your Life"

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32945

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

The war is over, but now a new campaign begins in the largest advertising…

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

C-047(a) (Chosen Few Players (The) The Shortest Day)

Track ID:

32946

Dialog:

Goldblatt, Laser

Dialog:

Davis, Danny

Dialog:

Foster, Larry

Dialog:

Spencer, Lou

Sound Effects:

Curtis, Ralph

First line:

Fairy tales can come true, if you are an old fairy…

Track comment:

Take off on Mel Brooks routine "Ten-thousand year old man"?

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Sketch

Recording

On album:

T-034(a) (Al Tijuana and his Jewish Brass)

Track ID:

32997

Commentator, Band Leader?:

Jacobi, Lou

Orchestra:

Al Tijuana & his Jewish Brass

Music Direction, Arrangement:

Butler, Artie

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Incidental announcing/comedic commentary.

Style:

Instrumental/Mariachi Brass/Novelty

Recordings

On album:

008o (Reissmann, H. I.- Kalisch, L./ Der Badkhn/ Drushe Geshank Oyf A...Khasene)

Track ID:

29023

Artist:

Reissmann, H. I.- Kalisch, L.

Language:

Yiddish

On album:

059i (Duplicate see 058l)

Track ID:

30571

Vocal:

Goldstein, Gus

Language:

Yiddish

Recording

On album:

B-061(c) (By the Shores of Lake Salukes / Field Recording from John Patrick Collection)

Track ID:

33688

Vocal:

Kohn, Marty

Commentary:

Patrick, John

First line:

Bay the shores of Lake Salukes, where there grows the creeping moss,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Style:

Humorous/Scatalogical

Recording

On album:

V0001 (A Pair From Heaven (Video) — אַ פּאָר פֿון גאָט)

Track ID:

33690

Actor:

Stolper, Zvi

Actor:

Koenig, Lea

Language:

Yiddish

Length:

61:00

Recording

On album:

W-021(d) (The Strauss/Warschauer Duo / Rejoicing / Yiddish Songs and Klezmer Music)

Track ID:

33704

Violin/Accordion/Arranger/Vocal:

Strauss, Deborah

Vocal/Arranger/Guitar Mandolin:

Warschauer, Jeff

First line:

S'iz nito keyn nekhtn, s'iz nokh nito keyn morgn,

First line (Yiddish):

ס'איז ניטאָ קײן נעכטן, ס'איז נאָך ניטאָ קײן מאָרגן,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Concert/Medley

Length:

5:27

Recording

On album:

N-031(a) (Now That Sounds Kosher)

Track ID:

33802

Vocal:

Sherman, Allan

First line:

In Sherwood Forest there dwellt a knight, known as the righteous Sir Greenbaum,

Language:

English

Style:

Novelty/Humorous/Parody

Length:

3:40

Recording

On album:

N-031(a) (Now That Sounds Kosher)

Track ID:

33804

Vocal:

Lieberman, Allan

First line:

When I was a lad I went to Hebrew school, I learned about the Torah…

Language:

English

Style:

Country Western

Length:

1:22

Recording

On album:

V0006

Track ID:

33828

Performer:

Brice, Fanny

Performer:

Cantor, Eddie

Performers:

Marx Brothers

Performer:

Caesar, Sid

Artist:

Berle, Milton

Artist:

Rivers, Joan

Artist:

Lewis, Jerry

Artist:

Waldoks, Moshe

Artist:

King, Alan

Artist:

Crystal, Billy

Director:

Bloomstein, Rex

Language:

English

Length:

60:00

Recording

On album:

V0010

Track ID:

33830

Performer:

Daniels, Larry

Performer:

Skulnick, Menasha — סקולניק, מנשה

Performer:

Rechtzeit, Seymour — רעכצײַט, סימאָר

Performer:

Fuchs, Leo — פֿוקס, לעאָ

Performer:

Wilner, Max — װילנער, מאַקס

Performer:

Rosenberg, Mikhl — ראָזענבערג, מיכל

Performer:

Buloff, Joseph — בולאָף, יוסף

Performer:

Zwerling, Yetta

Producer:

Seiden, Joseph

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Documentary/Theater

Length:

90:00

Recordings

On album:

K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)

Track ID:

33891

Vocal:

Friedman, Kinky

Back-up Vocals and Instrumentals:

Texas Jewboys

Accordion:

Shelby, Jeff "Jewford"

First line:

Left barber college, searching for knowledge

Language:

English

Style:

Live Concert

On album:

K-098(a) (Live From Austin Texas Kinky Friedman)

Track ID:

33865

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar:

Friedman, Kinky

Piano, Accordion, Saxes, Vocals:

Shelby, Jeff "Jewford"

Saxes, Piano, Tambourine, Vocals:

Jacobs, Ken "Snakebite"

Lead Guitar:

Culpepper,Thomas "Wichita"

Bass, Vocals:

Adam, Skycab

Drums:

Boles, "BB" Buster (Major)

First line:

I left barber college searchin' for knowledge

Language:

English

Recording

On album:

K-098(a) (Live From Austin Texas Kinky Friedman)

Track ID:

33868

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar:

Friedman, Kinky

Piano, Accordion, Saxes, Vocals:

Shelby, Jeff "Jewford"

Saxes, Piano, Tambourine, Vocals:

Jacobs, Ken "Snakebite"

Lead Guitar:

Culpepper,Thomas "Wichita"

Bass, Vocals:

Adam, Skycab

Drums:

Boles, "BB" Buster (Major)

First line:

She was only a waitress in a highway café

Language:

English

Recording

On album:

K-098(a) (Live From Austin Texas Kinky Friedman)

Track ID:

33869

Saxes, Piano, Tambourine, Vocals:

Jacobs, Ken "Snakebite"

Lead Guitar:

Culpepper,Thomas "Wichita"

Bass, Vocals:

Adam, Skycab

Drums:

Boles, "BB" Buster (Major)

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar:

Friedman, Kinky

Piano, Accordion, Saxes, Vocals:

Shelby, Jeff "Jewford"

First line:

Did I hear you sayyou wished that you could leave her?

Language:

English

Recording

On album:

K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)

Track ID:

33883

Vocal:

Friedman, Kinky

Back-up instrumentals:

Texas Jewboys

First line:

Time to resign from the human race

Language:

English

Style:

Studio

Recording

On album:

K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)

Track ID:

33885

Vocal:

Friedman, Kinky

Back-up Instrumentals and Vocals:

Texas Jewboys

First line:

Well, I pulled into Dallat on a cold December day

Language:

English

Style:

Studio

Recording

On album:

K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)

Track ID:

33886

Vocal:

Friedman, Kinky

Back-up Instrumentals and Vocals:

Texas Jewboys

Violin:

Culpepper,Thomas "Wichita"

Kazoo:

Shelby, Jeff "Jewford"

First line:

You uppity women I don't understand…

Language:

English

Style:

Live concert

Recording

On album:

K-098(b) (The Best of Kinky Friedman)

Track ID:

33895

Vocal:

Friedman, Kinky

Back-up Vocals and Instrumentals:

Texas Jewboys

First line:

Ol Ben Lucas had a lot of mucus

Track comment:

Kids song with children's voices on track.

Language:

English

Style:

Studio

Recordings

On album:

V0019 (A Khasene In Shtetl (Video) — אַ חתונה אין שטעטל (ווידיאָ))

Track ID:

33982

Vocal:

Burstein, Mike — בורשטײַן, מײַק

First line:

Der tate zitst zikh oyf zayn shtil, oy, shabos nukhn kugl,

First line (Yiddish):

דער טאַטע זיצט זיך אױף זײן שטיל, אױ, שבּת נאָכן קוגל, אַרום ים זיצן חסידים פֿיל, אױ, שבּת נאָך דעם קוגל. ער דערציילט זיי

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Vaudeville/Pop

Length:

1:48

On album:

V0290(4)a (What's Not to Like, (Oct 18,2015): A Yiddish Songfest (Video) [Separated]- Subtitles)

Track ID:

43160

Vocal:

Fleisher, David

Piano:

Berman, Gary

Violin:

Li, Jenny

Vio;in:

Lin, Michael

Viola da gamba:

Thomsen, Fred Margolin, Connie

Violin:

Li, Jenny

Viola:

Lin, Michael

Viola da gamba:

Thomsen, Fred Margolin, Connie

First line:

Der tate zitst zikh af zayn shtul, oy, shabes nokhn kugl, arum im zitzn khasidm fil, oy, shabos nukhn kugl. Er dertsaylt

First line (Yiddish):

דער טאַטע זיצט אַך זײַן שטול, אוי, שבּת נאָכן קוגל, אַרום ים זיצן חסידוים פֿיל, אוי, שבּת נאָך דעם קוגל, ער דערציילט זיי

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert

Recording

On album:

V0038(a)

Track ID:

34127

Vocal/Dancer:

Chaplin, Charley

Performer:

Goddard, Paulette

Style:

Vaudeville/Novelty/Dance

Recording

On album:

V0101

Track ID:

34268

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Film

Recording

On album:

R-029(c) (The Even More Complete Collection of.... Rechnitzer Rejects)

Track ID:

2773

Composer:

Philips, J.

Artist:

Rechnitzer Rejects

First line:

All the beans are brown and it's Friday, I was so eager...

Language:

English

Recording

On album:

V0120 (Kinky Friedman/Proud To Be An A**Hole From El Paso (Video))

Track ID:

35226

Member Texas Jewboys:

Boles, Buster ("BB")

Member Texas Jewboys:

Culpepper, Thomas William ("Wichita")

Vocal/Director Texas Jewboys:

Friedman, Kinky

Member Texas Jewboys:

Jacobs, Ken "Snakebite"

Member Texas Jewboys:

Shelby, Jeff ("Jewford")

Member Texas Jewboys:

Skycab Adam

First line:

Left barber college, searching for knowledge

Language:

English

Style:

Country/College Fight Song

Recording

On album:

V0120 (Kinky Friedman/Proud To Be An A**Hole From El Paso (Video))

Track ID:

35228

Member Texas Jewboys:

Shelby, Jeff ("Jewford")

Member Texas Jewboys:

Culpepper, Thomas William ("Wichita")

Artist:

Texas Jewboys

Member Texas Jewboys/Performer:

Boles, Buster ("BB")

Member Texas Jewboys:

Sloman, Larry ("Washington Ratso")

Vocal/Director Texas Jewboys:

Friedman, Kinky

Performer:

Moll, Richard

Performer:

Buzzi, Ruth

First line:

You uppity women I don't understand, why you gotta go try act like a man,

Language:

English

Style:

Country

Recording

On album:

V0120 (Kinky Friedman/Proud To Be An A**Hole From El Paso (Video))

Track ID:

35232

Member Texas Jewboys:

Boles, Buster ("BB")

Member Texas Jewboys:

Culpepper, Thomas William ("Wichita")

Vocal/Director Texas Jewboys:

Friedman, Kinky

Member Texas Jewboys:

Jacobs, Ken "Snakebite"

Member Texas Jewboys:

Shelby, Jeff ("Jewford")

Member Texas Jewboys:

Skycab Adam

First line:

Well, I pulled into Dallat on a cold December day for coffee and donuts...

Language:

English

Style:

Country/Pop

Recording

On album:

G-104(b) (Shura Greenhoyz-Turkov Recites Yiddish Classics/Peretz/Asch/Reisen/Manger/Kaganovski — שורא גרינהויז־טורקאָוו לייענט יידישע קלאַסישע ווערק)

Track ID:

35370

Vocal:

Greenhoyz-Turkov, Shura — גרינהויז־טורקאָוו, שורא

First line:

Katie iz gekumen frun der arbet, a freylikher un zeyer gut oysgeleygt,

First line (Yiddish):

קייטי איז געקומען פֿון דער אַרבעט, אַ פֿרייליכער און זייער גוט אויסגעלעגט,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Spoken Word

Length:

7:54

Recordings

On album:

051f (Casman, Nellie (w/orch.)/ Ikh Bin Farlibt In Mayn.../ Nellie, Tu Dos Nokh Amol)

Track ID:

30217

Vocal:

Casman, Nellie — קאַסמאַן, נעלי

Language:

Yiddish

On album:

M-047(c) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection A)

Track ID:

35548

Artist:

Picon, Molly — פּיקאָן, מאָלי

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Novelty/Vaudeville

Length:

3:10

Recording

On album:

M-047(c) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection A)

Track ID:

35566

Artist:

Boyberiker Kapelye — בױבעריק קאַפּעליע

Violin:

Katz, Beresh — קאַץ, בערעש

Violin:

Schwartz, Abe — שװאַרץ, אײב

Clarinet:

Tarras, Dave — טאַראַס, דײװ

Trombone:

Levitt, Jack

Tuba:

Drutin, Moe

Director:

Gross, Hirsh — גראָס, הירש

First line:

Oy, ot iz dos geven a groys shtikele...git mir a tun un veln mir bazingen dem...

First line (Yiddish):

אוי, אָט איז דאָס געווען אַ גרויס שטיקעלע...גיט מיר אַ טון און מיר וועלן...

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Klezmer/Parody

Length:

3:12

Recording

On album:

M-047(d) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection B)

Track ID:

35584

Vocal:

Gold, Clara — גאָלד, קלאַראַ

Vocal:

Goldstein, Gus

First line:

Yente Telebende, vi forstu? Vi ikh for, keyn amerike. Yetst, Yente Telebende...

First line:

יענטע טעלעבענדע, ווי פֿאָרסטו? ווי איך פֿאָר, קיין אַמעריקע. יעצט, יענטע...

Language:

Yiddish/English

Style:

Spoken Word/Sketch

Length:

3:08

Recording

On album:

K-022(e) (Mickey Katz / Cassette of Recordings From 78's)

Track ID:

2714

Composer:

Bizet, Georges

Artist:

Mickey Katz Orchestra

First line:

Oy, mayn meyer, du bist mir tayer,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From Victor Record 25 5092 A.

Language:

Yinglish/Dialect

Style:

Humorous

Recording

On album:

V0192 (Shver Tsu Zayn A Yidene (Video) — שווער צו זאַן אַ ייִדענע (ווידיאָ))

Track ID:

35752

Performer/Vocal:

Abromovitz, Traci — אברמוביץ, טרייסי

Performer/Vocal:

Anabela — אנאבלה

Performer/Vocal:

Ord, Edi — ארד, עדי

Performer/Vocal:

Vardeman, Monica — ורדימון, מוניקה

Performer/Vocal:

Yarlova, Helena — ירלובה, הלנה

Performer/Vocal:

Emanuel, Rina — עמנואל, רינה

Performer/Vocal:

Fisku, Irma — פיסקו, אירמה

Artist:

Riber, Chana — ריבר, חנה

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Musical Comedy/Theater

Recording

On album:

V0200 (A Yidishe Mame in Tsen Lectsias/ A Jewish Mother in Ten Lectures (Video) — אַ ייִדישע מאַמע אין 10 לעקסיעס (ווידיאָ)

Track ID:

35758

Performer:

Yigil, Gidi — יגיל, גדי

Performer:

Atzmon, Anat — עצמון, ענת

Performer:

Vardeman, Monica — ורדימון, מוניקה

Performer:

Kashkar, Andre — קשקר, אנדרי

Performer:

Kidor, Amitai — קידר, אמיתי

Performer:

Stupnov, Irma — סטפנוב, אירמה

Performer:

Kubluski, Uri — קובלסקי, אורי

Performer:

Shafir, Nib — שפיר, ניב

Performer:

Engl, Duri — אנגל, דורי

Performer:

Ashri, Runit — אשרי, רונית

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Spoken Word/Humorous

Length:

47:32

Recording

On album:

V0203 (Mayn Nomen Iz Benyouman/ My Name Is Benjamin (Video) — מײַן נאָמען איז בנימין (ווידיאָ))

Track ID:

35780

Performer:

Bodo, Yakov — בודו, יעקבֿ

Performer:

Alperin, Yankl — אַלפּערין, יענקל

Performer:

Kashkar, Andre — קשקר, אנדרי

Performer:

Fride, Davida — פרידה, דודה

Performer:

Yacov, Dovid — יעקב, דוד

Performer:

Kubluski, Uri — קובלסקי, אורי

Performer:

Traistman, Yisroel — טרייסטמאן, ישראל

Performer:

Yarlova, Helena — ירלובה, הלנה

Performer:

Fisku, Irma — פיסקו, אירמה

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Israeli Humor/Spoken Word

Length:

120:00

Recording

On album:

V0204 (Dos Groyse Gevins/ The Big Prize/The Jackpot (Video) — דאָס גרויסע געווינס (ווידיאָ))

Track ID:

35790

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Humorous/Drama

Recording

On album:

066r (Kandel's Orchestra/ Azoy Fayft Men On A Shviger/Flaskadrige)

Track ID:

35914

Vocal:

Zazulak, Michal

Language:

Polish

Style:

Humorous/Comic/Novelty

Recording

On album:

V0215(a)

Track ID:

36028

Performer:

Bodo, Yakov — בודו, יעקבֿ

Guest Director:

Lucian, Ion

Performer:

Alperin, Yankl — אַלפּערין, יענקל

Vocal:

Anabela — אנאבלה

Vocal:

Kashkar, Andre — קשקר, אנדרי

Vocal:

Kubluski, Uri — קובלסקי, אורי

Vocal:

Markovitch, Karol — מאַרקאָװיאש, קאָראָל

Vocal:

Monica — מוניקה

Vocal:

Piski, Irma — פּיסקי, אירמה

Vocal:

Sandler, Gro — סאַנדלער, גראָ

Vocal:

Sukulski, Joseph — סוקולבקי, יוסף

Vocal:

Treystman, Israel — טרייסמאַן, ישׂראל

Spoken Word:

Yigil, Gidi — יגיל, גדי

Vocal:

Yurluva, Helene — ירלובה, הלנה

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Humor/Comedy/Theater

Recording

On album:

V0215(b)

Track ID:

36048

Vocal:

Anabela — אנאבלה

Spoken Word:

Bodo, Yakov — בודו, יעקבֿ

Vocal:

Kashkar, Andre — קשקר, אנדרי

Vocal:

Kubluski, Uri — קובלסקי, אורי

Vocal:

Markovitch, Karol — מאַרקאָװיאש, קאָראָל

Vocal:

Monica — מוניקה

Vocal:

Piski, Irma — פּיסקי, אירמה

Vocal:

Sandler, Gro — סאַנדלער, גראָ

Vocal:

Sukulski, Joseph — סוקולבקי, יוסף

Vocal:

Treystman, Israel — טרייסמאַן, ישׂראל

Spoken Word:

Yigil, Gidi — יגיל, גדי

Vocal:

Yurluva, Helene — ירלובה, הלנה

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Humor/Comedy/Theater

Recording

On album:

V0174

Track ID:

36089

Vocal:

Goldwaser, Rafael

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Spoken Word

Recording

On album:

V0174

Track ID:

36089

Vocal:

Goldwaser, Rafael

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Spoken Word

Recording

On album:

V0174

Track ID:

36090

Vocal:

Goldwaser, Rafael

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Spoken Word

Recording

On album:

V0174

Track ID:

36091

Vocal:

Goldwaser, Rafael

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Spoken Word

Recording

On album:

G-029(b) (Joel Grey and the Kosher Jammers Mickey Katz Songs)

Track ID:

36093

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

English

Style:

Stand-up Comedy

Recording

On album:

V0225 (Di Ketubah/ The Marriage Contract (Video))

Track ID:

36094

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Comedy/Humor

Recording

On album:

A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)

Track ID:

36097

Vocal:

Hoffman, Anna

Vocal:

Jacobs, Jacob — זשאַקאָבס, זשאַקאָב

First line:

Moyshe, vos iz dos, un der furnitur in street, ver hot undz aroysgeshtelt?

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Sketch/Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Song/Duet

Length:

2:21

Recording

On album:

A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)

Track ID:

36098

Voca:

Hoffman, Anna

Vocal:

Jacobs, Jacob — זשאַקאָבס, זשאַקאָב

First line:

Sam, az di..hot zikh gekrikt a brive fun amerike, "vus zogtst zi"? "

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Sketch/Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Song/Duet

Length:

3:15

Recording

On album:

A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)

Track ID:

36109

Vocal:

Tanzman, Yosef — טאַנזמאַן, יוסף

Vocal:

Zeeman, Anna

First line:

A gitn peysekh dir mirke, a finstere sonim oyf dayn kop, azoy shpet kimst men...

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word Song

Length:

3:00

Recording

On album:

A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)

Track ID:

36110

Vocal:

Wilner, Max — װילנער, מאַקס

Vocal:

Doctor, Rubin — דאָקטאָר, רובין

First line:

Hi, di di..fe fe, nit sheyn a yid a shiker, fe, farvos hostu genumen trinken...

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Sketch/Spoken Word

Length:

3:16

Recording

On album:

A-060(d) (Songs From the Attic/ Lider Fun Boydem 6/ The Best of 78 Records/ Comical Duets — לידער פֿון בוידעם 6\ די בעסטע פֿון 78 פּלאַטן קאָמיקאַל דועטס)

Track ID:

36111

Artist:

Wilner, Max — װילנער, מאַקס

Vocal:

Doctor, Rubin — דאָקטאָר, רובין

Vocal:

Doctor, Rubin — דאָקטאָר, רובין

First line:

Yam hoyd, reb getzl ben hakoved, shlishi, vos, gib im a make, nisht keyn toyre,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Theater/Comedy/Humor/Vaudville/Parody//Chants/Sketch

Length:

3:14

Recording

On album:

V0226 (Di Eybike Dzigan Un Shumakher (Video) — די אייביקע דזשיגאַן און שומאַכער (ווידיאָ))

Track ID:

36122

Performer:

Bodo, Yakov — בודו, יעקבֿ

Performer:

Alperin, Yankl — אַלפּערין, יענקל

Producer:

Atzmon, Shmuel — עצמון, שמואל

Performer:

Yigil, Gidi — יגיל, גדי

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Sketches/Theater/Vaudeville/Jokes

Recordings

On album:

U-088(b)

Track ID:

36125

Vocal/Guitar:

Altman, Sean

Guitar/Bass/Drum Programming/Keyboards:

Spurney, Jon

First line:

I've got two pubic hairs and a three piece suit - today I am a man,

Language:

English

Style:

Pop/Novelty/Punk Rock

Length:

3:58

On album:

U-008(a) (What I Like About Jew/ Unorthodox/ Songs by Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum)

Track ID:

36298

Vocal:

Altman, Sean

Bass/Banjo/Drums:

Greenwalt, Roger

Vocal:

Dukach, Inna

First line:

I've got two pubic hairs and a three piece suit-today I am a man, I'm getting...

Language:

English

Style:

Pop/Novelty

Length:

3:56

Recording

On album:

D-005(z)5 (S. Dzigan / Yidn Kh'ken Nisht Shlofn/Pariz - Tel Aviv/ Fishl Der Matraz/Undzere In Amerika — ש. דזשיגאַן)

Track ID:

36183

Vocal:

Dzigan, Shimon — דזשיגאַן, שמעון

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Monologue/Spoken Word