Songs written or composed
Wedding Samba
- Author:
- Ellstein, Abe — עלשטײַן, אײב
- Author:
- Liebowitz, Joseph
- Author:
- Small, Allan
- Composer:
- Ellstein, Abe — עלשטײַן, אײב
- Composer:
- Liebowitz, Joseph
- Composer:
- Smulewitz, Solomon — שמוליװטש, שלמה
- Genre:
- Dance/Samba/Latin
- Subject:
- Wedding/Marriage/Place/Rio Grande
- Additional song notes:
- See Gottlieb 147-48 for relationship between "I Met A Girl", "The Wedding Samba", "I Fell Like I'm Not Out Of Bed Yet", "If I Were A Rich Man" - See also "Der Nayer Sher"
See Heskes 3368
- Related information in folder 485:
- Document type:
- Lyrics
- Author:
- Internet
- Publisher:
- International Lyrics Playground
- Comments:
- Lyrics -- "Wedding Samba erroneously credited to Edmund Ros
Recordings
- On album:
- K-022(g) (Simcha Time Mickey Katz Plays Music For Weddings Bar Mitz..)
- Track ID:
- 22352
- Artist:
- Mickey Katz Orchestra
- Arranger Orchestral Version:
- Small, Allan
- English Lyrics:
- Liebowitz, Joseph
- Orchestra Leader/Vocal/Clarinet:
- Katz, Mickey
- Piano/Arranger:
- Farber, Nat
- Drums:
- Weiss, Sam
- Trumpet:
- Klein, Rafael Mendez
- Trombone:
- Zentner, Sy
- Bass:
- Breen, Larry
- First line:
- The wedding is over, good luck, the bride, she's happy...
- Track comment:
- Originally Recorded Dec 20, 1950
- Language:
- English
- On album:
- G-057(c) (Funny It Doesn't Sound Jewish/ Compilation by Jack Gottlieb accompaning book with same title.)
- Track ID:
- 31689
- Vocal:
- Rechtzeit, Seymour — רעכצײַט, סימאָר
- Clarinet:
- Tarras, Dave — טאַראַס, דײװ
- Orchestra Leader:
- Medoff, Sam
- First line:
- Way down in the land of the Rio Grande, when people are married
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Lantin/Samba/Orchestral Accompaniment
- Length:
- 0:31
- On album:
- F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)
- Track ID:
- 28551
- Artist:
- Xavier Cugat Orchestra
- Violin/Orchestra Director:
- Cugat, Xavier
- Vocal:
- Lane, Abbe
- Arranger Orchestral Version:
- Small, Allan
- First line:
- Way down in the land of the Rio Grande, when people are married, they play…
- Track comment:
- Originally recorded Feb 7, 1950/ Unknown orchestra personel
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Big Band/Latin
- On album:
- A-019(a) (Billy Amstell's Jewish Party with Harold Bevens)
- Track ID:
- 3255
- Vocal and Accompaniment:
- Amstell, Billy Ens & Lynn Collins
- Host:
- Berens, Harold, host
- Arranger:
- Amstell, Billy, arr
- Orchestral Version Arrangement:
- Small, Allan
- First line:
- Way down in thhe land of the Rio Grande, when people are,
- Audio:
- Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Samba
- On album:
- F-019(a) (More Bagels and Bongos Irving Fields Trio)
- Track ID:
- 3259
- Artist:
- Fields Trio, Irving
- Arrangement/Piano:
- Fields, Irving
- Audio:
- Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
- Style:
- Instrumental