My Desert Island Songs

[Adrian Adam Durlester <durleste...>]

This is a tough call.

The list narrowed down to:
Klepper and Freelander's "Lo Alecha"
Ezra Gabbai/Bill Sharlin's "Lo Yareiu"
Ma Tovu's "Hillel's Song" (B'makom sh'ein anashim)
SAFAM's "Piece by Piece"
The Regesh "Hallelu" (Psalm 150) as adapted by Debbie Friedman
Carlebach's...well, just about anything he wrote, but the "Od Yishama" (no 2) 
is best for camp settings.
Josh Miller's Tu B'shevat song "Tree"
Baruch Chait's "Gesher Tzar M'od"
David Feingold's "Heiveinu Shalom Aleichem"
Craig Taubman's "Shir Hama'alot" or "Yad b'Yad"
Steve Dropkin's "Al Shlosha D'varim"
a personal favorite-though not the most singable camp type song-Julie Silver's 
"I Am All Around" (for the "acheyn yesh Adonai bamakom hazeh v'anochi lo 
yadati" which is very special to me.)

and the eventual winner, the quintessential camp song,

"Not By Might, Not By Power" by Debbie Friedman.

(which I recall Gerry Kaye once saying was possibly written on the floor of the 
cheder ochel at OSRUI, but that may just be wishful thinking.)

Adrian