Name:
Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich
Born:
1894
Died:
1939

Songs written or composed

Chto Mnye Gorye

Author:
Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich
Composer:
Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich
Genre:
Russian/Gypsy
Subject:
Gypsy/Drink/Ache/Guitar/Love/Homeless
Music:
ML SOG 168
Additional song notes:
Translated into Yiddish. See "Shpil Guitar" Also parodied in English under title "Kretschme"

Recordings

On album:
B-082(a) (Heart On The Snow The Balalaika Russe)
Track ID:
25862
Vocal:
Sherman, Judy & Balalaike Russe
Artist:
Balalaike Russe
Track comment:
What's Grief To Me
Language:
Russian
On album:
B-007(f) (Theodore Bikel Songs of a Russian Gypsy)
Track ID:
2770
Vocal:
Bikel, Theodore
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
Is this the same as Eyfo Hen of Kooko & Sarafan?
Language:
Russian
Style:
Gypsy
On album:
C-034(a) (Roslyn Cooper Songs Of The Jewish People)
Track ID:
2771
Vocal:
Cooper, Roslyn
Conductor/Arranger:
Howard, Hersh
Language:
Russian
Style:
Gypsy
On album:
F-001(b) (Cafe Feenjon Featuring The Feenjon Group)
Track ID:
2772
Artist:
Feenjon Group
Vocal:
Grobard, Avram — גראָבאַרד, אַבֿרהם
Language:
Russian

Shpil Gitar — שפּיל גיטאַר

Author:
Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich
Composer:
Pokrass, Samuil Lakovlevich
Genre:
USSR
Subject:
Gypsy/Drinkikng/Wine/Song/Guitar/Love/Ache/Homeless
Origin:
ML SOG 167
Transliteration:
ML SOG 167
Translation:
ML SOG 167
Music:
ML SOG 168
Additional song notes:
Translated from the Russian "Chto Mnie Gore". Translator unknown. Also parodied in the English "Kretschme"

Recordings

On album:
A-035(e) (Aufwind/ inejnem/ Jiddische Lieder & Klesmermusik)
Track ID:
28725
Artist:
Aufwind
Vocal/Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Recorder:
Hermerschmidt, Jan
Violin/Viola/:
Koch, Claudia
Contrabass:
Paffrath, Thomas
Vocal/Mandolin/Guitar/Arranger:
Reich, Hardy
Vocal/Bandoneon (Button Accordion)/Percussion:
Rohde, Andreas
Translator, Russian:
Charney, Daniel — טשאַרני, דניאל
First line:
Shpil gitar, biz mayn tsar vet oyfhern, zol platsn di strunes un a tsol,
First line (Yiddish):
שפּיל גיטאַר, ביז מײַן צער װעט אױפֿהערן, זאָל פּלאַצן די סטרונעס אָן אָ צאָל
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Gypsy/Sole male vocalist not identified
Length:
4' 13
On album:
K-094(a) (Tsigayner Klezmer, Rolinha Kross Trio)
Track ID:
30983
Accordion/Midibass/Arrangement:
van Tol, Theo
Vocals/Arrangement:
Kross, Rolinha
Cimbalom/Arrangement:
Vink, Bokkie
Artist:
Rolinha Kross Trio
First line:
Shpil, gitar, biz mayn tsar vey oyfhern, zoln platsn di strunes on…
First line (Yiddish):
שפּיל, גיטאַר ביז מײַן צער װעט אױפֿהערן, זאָלן פּלאַסטן די סטרונעס אָן…
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Concert/Cabaret
On album:
K-116(a)1 (Yitzchak Koller/ Songs from the Shtetl/ Disk 1)
Track ID:
35470
Vocal:
Koller, Yitzchak — קאָלער, יצחק
Guitar:
Tal, Gabriella
First line:
Shpil gitar, biz mayn tsar vet oyfhern, zol platsn di strunes un a tsol,
First line (Yiddish):
שפּיל גיטאַר, ביז מײַן צער װעט אױפֿהערן, זאָל פּלאַצן די סטרונעס אָן אָ צאָל
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Folk
Length:
3:22
On album:
A-035(f) (Aufwind / Live)
Track ID:
31981
Artist:
Aufwind
Vocal/Violin:
Koch, Claudia
Vocal/Mandolin/Guitar/Arranger:
Reich, Hardy
Vocal/Bandonian:
Rohde, Andreas
Vocal/Clarinets/Bass Clarinet/Blockflote/Percussion:
Hermerschmidt, Jan
Contrabass:
Paffrath, Thomas
First line:
Shpil gitar, biz mayn tsar vet oyfhern, zol platsn di strunes un a…
First line (Yiddish):
שפּיל גיטאַר, ביז מײַן צער װעט אױפֿהערן, זאָל פּלאַצן די סטרונעס אָן אָ צאָל
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Pop/Concert/Klezmer
Length:
4:37
On album:
R-056(a) (Astrid Ruff / chanson yiddish / Ivresses)
Track ID:
38205
Vocal (Chanteuse):
Ruff, Astrid
Accordion (Accordeon):
Weyh, Yves
Violin (Violon):
Helmstetter, Tchatcho
First line:
shpil gitar, biz mayn tsar vet oyfhern, Zoln platsn di strunes on a tsol.
First line (Yiddish):
שפיל גיטאַר,ביז מײַן צער וועט אויפֿהרו, זאָלן פּלאַצן די סטרונעס אָן אַ צאָל
Language:
Yiddish
Length:
4:12
On album:
L-067(b) (A Libe/Aleyn In Veg/Betty Visser/Paul Custers/Mathijs van der Heide)
Track ID:
40159
accordion:
Visser, Betty
Vocals, sax:
Custers, Paul
Guitar, double-bass, mouth-organ, ukelele, accordion, vocals:
Van Der Heide, Mathijs
Length:
5:06
On album:
T-023(a) (Those Were The Days)
Track ID:
14186
Vocal:
Wilner, Lori
Director:
Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
Artist:
Golden Land Klezmer Orchestra
First line:
Shpil gitar, biz mayn tsar vet oyfhern, zoln platsn di…
First line:
שפּיל גיטאַר, ביז מײַן צער װעט אױפֿהערן, זאָלן פּלאַצן די סטרונעס..
Track comment:
From "Those Were The Days"/
Language:
Yiddish/English