Name:
Mesco, Adam

Songs written or composed

Reb Yidl Gib Gelt — רבּ ייִדל גיב געלט

Author:
Davidoff, Jacob
Author:
Mesco, Adam
Composer:
Davidoff, Jacob
Composer:
Mesco, Adam
Genre:
Klezmer/Theatre/Immigrant/Satiric/Novelty
Subject:
Money/Charity/Reward/Food/Kosher/Shul/Tickets/Burial
Transliteration:
Ephemera 1485
Translation:
Ephemera 1485
Additional song notes:
Reb Jew, Give Money See Heskes 1, entry 161 respecting sheet music.

Recordings

On album:
L-050(a) (Martin Lorber Collection of 78 RPM Recordings)
Track ID:
27665
Vocalist:
Weisman, G.
First line:
Vilt ir a kusher yidl zayn, reb yidl, gib gelt, gib gelt.
First line (Yiddish):
װילט איר אַ כּשר ייִדל זײַן, רבּ ייִדל, גיב געלט, גיב געלט,
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
Columbia E6104 78rpm
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Klezmer/Concert
On album:
P-068(g) (Der East Side Fun Amol/ Jane Peppler & Friends)
Track ID:
41507
Vocal:
Peppler, Jane
Piano:
Enoch, Aviva
First line:
Vilst a kushere yidele zayn Reb Yidl gib gelt, Reb Yidl gib gelt, a plombe af…
First line (Yiddish):
ווילסטו אַ כּשרערע ייִדל זײַן, רעבּ ייִדל גיב געלט, רעבּ ייִדל גיב געלט,...
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Concert
Length:
2:22

Di Yidishe Natsion — די ייִדישע נאַציאָן

Author:
Mesco, Adam
Composer:
Rumshinsky, Yosef — רומשינסקי, יאָסף
Genre:
Theater/Lament
Subject:
Persecution/Suffering/Torah/Faith/Homeless/Survival
Origin:
Sheet Music 1248
Transliteration:
Sheet Music 1248
Music:
Sheet Music 1248
Additional song notes:
The Yiddish Nation
Sheet music:
Folder:
1270
Series:
4
Arranged for:
Voice/Piano
Texts:
Yiddish
Publisher:
The Hebrew Publishing Company
Publisher address:
50-52 Eldridge St., NY
Date:
1913
Provenance:
Gift of Dianne O'shea, April 2013
First line:
Es laydet der yosem yisroelik a shrek, ikh freg un ikh...
First line (Yiddish):
עס לײַדעט דער יתום ישׂראָליק אַ שרעק, איך פֿרעג און איך פֿרעג אַלס...
Notes:
The orphan Israel suffers terribly, I ask and I ask, why is this…/ Cover: Gezungen von Regina Prager with her portrait: Also "Von Shwarzberg's Play Heim Susse Heim"