importance

Recording

On album:

B-090(h) (Majer Bogdanski / Songs From Cassette 4 of 11 (B))

Track ID:

32168

Vocal:

Bogdanski, Majer — באָגדאַנסקי, מאיר

First line:

Oyfn kurtse-shel-yud, oyfn shpits funem pitsele os,

First line (Yiddish):

אויפֿן קוצו־של־יוד, אופֿן שפּיץ פֿונעם פּיטסעלע אות.

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Acapella/Folk

Length:

1:56

Recordings

On album:

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

Track ID:

26509

Yiddish Adaptation:

Rosenfeld, M & B. Ableson (Yid)

Vocal:

Adler, Bruce

Piano:

Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)

First line:

Ikh bin der makher fun der gantser shtot,

First line (Yiddish):

איך בין דער מאַכער פֿון דער גאַנצער שטאָט,

Track comment:

Largo el Factotum from "The Barber of Seville"

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Operatic/Comic

On album:

N-026(a) (An Afternoon Of Yiddish Art Song)

Track ID:

27760

Piano:

Rosenzweig, Joyce

Vocal:

Abelson, Cantor Robert Paul

First line:

Ikh bin der makher fun der gantser shtot,

First line (Yiddish):

איך בין דער מאַכער פֿון דער גאַנצער שטאָט,

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Operatic/Performance Recording/Comic

On album:

A-054(a) (Robert Paul Abelson, Baritone / Joyce Rosenzweig, Piano / A Leyter Tus Himl/ A Ladder to Heaven/ The Art of Jewish Song — אַ לייטער צום הימל)

Track ID:

35856

Vocal/Yiddish Adaptation:

Abelson, Cantor Robert Paul

First line:

Ikh bin der makher fun der gantser shtot, itst darf ikh geyn tsu mayn gesheft,

First line (Yiddish):

איך בין דער מאַכער פֿון דער גאַנצער שטאָט, איצט דאַרף איך גיין צו מײַן געשעפֿט

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert/Humorous

Length:

4:40

On album:

V0020 (The Yiddish King Lear (Video))

Track ID:

36065

Vocal:

Abelson, Cantor Robert Paul

First line:

Ikh bin der makher fun der gantser shtot, itst darf ikh geyn tsu mayn gesheft...

First line (Yiddish):

איך בין דער מאַכער פֿון דער גאַנצער שטאָט, איצט דאַרף איך גיין צו מײַן געשעפֿט

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Humorous/Parody/Operatic

On album:

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

Track ID:

41818

Vocal:

Abelson, Cantor Robert Paul

First line:

Ikh bin der makher fun der gantser shtot, itst darf ikh geyn tsu mayn gesheft...

First line (Yiddish):

איך בין דער מאַכער פֿון דער גאַנצער שטאָט, איצט דאַרף איך גיין צו מײַן געשעפֿט

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Humorous/Parody/Operatic

Length:

4:21

On album:

T-023(a) (Those Were The Days)

Track ID:

5195

Yiddish Adaption:

Rosenfeld, M & B. Ableson (Yid)

Conductor/Piano:

Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)

Vocal:

Abelson, Cantor Robert Paul

Artist:

Golden Land Orchestra

First line:

Ikh bin der makher fun der gantser shtot,

First line (Yiddish):

איך בין דער מאַכער פֿון דער גאַנצער שטאָט,

Track comment:

From "Those Were The Days"

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Operatic

Recordings

On album:

Z-016(b) (Nigunim Of Gold Israel Zohar — ניגונים של זהב ישׂראל זוהר)

Track ID:

7051

Clarinet:

Zohar, Israel — זוהר, ישׂראל

Track comment:

From Fiddler On The Roof

Style:

Instrumental

On album:

Y-015(a) (Yiddish Is Alive — ייִדיש לעבט יידיש חי)

Track ID:

7052

Clarinet:

Feidman, Giora — פיידמן, גיורא

Track comment:

From Fiddler On The Roof

Style:

Instrumental

On album:

D-011(a) (Dimitri Dourakine Und Sein Orchester Shalom)

Track ID:

7053

Artist:

Dourakine, Dimitri & Orch

Track comment:

From Fiddler On The Roof

Style:

Instrumental

On album:

F-013(c) (Freilechs & chassidic songs Giora Feidman - Clarinet — פֿרײלעכס ונעימות חסידיות גיורא פיידמן - קלרינט)

Track ID:

7054

Clarinet:

Feidman, Giora — פיידמן, גיורא

Artist:

Israel Recording Orch — תזמורת ההקלטות

Track comment:

From Fiddler On The Roof

Style:

Instrumental/Orchestral

On album:

B-005(a) (Herschel Bernardi sings Fiddler On The Roof)

Track ID:

7044

Vocal:

Bernardi, Herschel

Arranger/Conductor:

Matz, Peter

First line:

If I were a rich man...all day long I'd beri beri bom,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From Fiddler On The Roof

Language:

English

On album:

B-028(h) (The Barry Sisters sing Fiddler On The Roof)

Track ID:

7045

Vocal:

Barry Sisters — שװעסטער באַרי

Arranger/Conductor:

Feller, Sid

First line:

If I were a rich man...all day long I'd beri beri bom,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From Fiddler On The Roof

Language:

English

On album:

F-003(b) (Fiddler On The Roof Original Broadway Cast Album)

Track ID:

7046

Vocal:

Mostel, Zero

Vocal:

Everett, Tayna

First line:

Dear God, you made many, many poor people, I realize it...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

If I were a rich man...all day long I'd beri beri bom,

Language:

English

On album:

F-003(c) (Fiddler On The Roof Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Track ID:

7047

Vocal:

Topol, Chaim — טופּול, חיים

Arranger/Conductor:

Williams, John

First line:

O dear Lord, you made many, many poor people, I realize...

Language:

English

On album:

R-024(a) (Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen A Montage/Documentary)

Track ID:

7048

Vocal:

Mostel, Zero

Vocal:

Rudensky, Shmuel — רודענסקי, שמואל

Narrator:

Willens, Rita Jacobs

First line:

Dear God, you made many, many poor people,

Track comment:

Interwoven excerpts from Albums F-03(a) & (b)

Language:

English/Yiddish

On album:

B-012(j) (Mike Burstyn Live In Jerusalem — מײַק בורשטײן)

Track ID:

7049

Voval:

Burstein, Mike — בורשטײַן, מײַק

First line:

Dear God, you made many, many poor people,

Track comment:

Medley with "Sunrise Sunset"

Language:

English/Yiddish

On album:

R-028(a) (Paul Rothman & His Orchestra present A Taste of Israel)

Track ID:

7050

Artist:

Paul Rothman Orchestra

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From Fiddler On The Roof

Style:

Instrumental

On album:

V-013(a) (Jewish Impressions Soloists Ensemble Via Tertia)

Track ID:

19930

Artist:

Via Tertia Soloist Ensemble

Conductor/Arranger:

Heifetz, Samuel

Track comment:

From Fiddler On The Roof

Style:

Instrumental

On album:

C-032(e) (Chutzpah Lebn zol Kolombus)

Track ID:

21464

Vocal:

Krasnowsky, Frank

Piano:

Steuer, Sydney Anschell

First line:

If I were a rich man...all day long I'd beri beri bom,

Track comment:

From Fiddler On The Roof

Language:

English

On album:

R-045(a) (Oj, Bruderl, Lechajim/ Chaim Rosenbaum/ Wlodzimerz Slopak — אױ, ברודערל, לחיים)

Track ID:

25705

Guitar:

Rosenbaum, Khaim

Violin:

Slopek, Wlodzimerz

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From Fiddler On The Roof

Style:

Instrumental

On album:

M-060(a)

Track ID:

26805

Artist:

Klezmerim [M-060(a)]

Style:

Instrumental

On album:

K-022(m) (Mickey Katz Fiddler On The Roof)

Track ID:

31304

Clarinet:

Katz, Mickey

Trumpet:

Klein, Manny

Violin:

Gill, Benny

Woodwinds:

Bercov, Morris

Trombone:

Shepard, Thomas

Piano:

Sherman, Ray

Bass:

Rubin, Meyer

Drums:

Weiss, Sam

Percussion:

Flynn, Frank

Percussion:

Bunker, Larry

Arranger:

Farber, Nat

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Style:

Instrumental/Klezmer/Theatre

Length:

2:52

On album:

N-029(a) (Nigunim Klezmer Band — ניגונים \ קלעזמער קאַפּעליע)

Track ID:

33040

Tuba:

Belobrov, Valery

Accordion/Artistic Director:

Kazdan, Igor

Violin:

Kazdan, Natalia

Artist:

Nigunim Klezmer Band

Flute:

Sinyakova-Belobrova, Alexandra

Guitar:

Kadenko, Sergey

Style:

Instrumental/Klezmer/Concert

Length:

1:36

On album:

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

Track ID:

31691

Vocal:

Bernardi, Herschel

First line:

If I were a rich man, ya da da di dum, all day long I'd chiri bidi bam…

Language:

English

Style:

Theater/Orchestral Accompaniment

Length:

0:34

On album:

F-024(j) (Dudu Fisher In Concert From Israel)

Track ID:

34976

Vocal:

Fisher, Dovid (Dudu) פֿישער, דוד (דודו)

Language:

English

Style:

Israeli

Length:

3:54

On album:

K-026(q) (Fiddler on the Road Rubinstein Klezmer Project Klezmer, Ladino, and Balkan Songs)

Track ID:

39010

Piano and Vocals:

Kolonomos, Thomas Yehuda Martincevic

Accordion:

Meskovic, Almir

violin:

Rubinstein, Ya'akov

Length:

3:10

On album:

Y-034(a) (Yiddish Songs/ Tous les plus grands tubes Yiddishes du monde)

Track ID:

39178

First line:

Oy, rubenu sheloynim olstof bashaf velt mit a grosse koved

Language:

Yiddish