[HANASHIR:1517] Re: Please help!

[Carol Leon <cbleon...>]

Yes, Raquell, thanks for confirming what Judy wrote!  -- Carol

>From: QuelliPG (at) aol(dot)com
>Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:09:03 EDT
>To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>Subject: [HANASHIR:1515] Re:  Please help!
>Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>
>Those words were adapted to a "folk" melody written for the words "lo 
yisa goy
>el goy cherev".  The music (with the hebrew words) can be found on page 
57 of
>the book "Great Songs of Israel" edited by Velvel Pasternak - Tara
>Publications...
>
>I don't know who wrote the words "don't walk in front of me...etc."  
I've seen
>it on greeting cards for many years... nor do I know who decided it 
should be
>sung to the lo yisa goy tune!  
>
>And ultimately (we hope) some of the songs we are writing now will end 
up in
>someone's collection with "folk" written at the top!   As much as we 
all would
>like credit for our copyrighted work, it's happened to me already at 
least
>once... one of my best friends was recently at an "erev shira" in New 
York
>City where one of the leaders got up and taught a round I had written 
in 1986
>and taught to a relatively small group of people.  The woman had no 
idea who
>had written the song AND taught one part incorrectly.  When my friend
>approached her to say that she had done one part wrong the woman argued 
that
>she was absolutely right!   Once music is "released", we really have 
little
>control over what people do with it (unless they try to print or record 
it)
>oops - I digressed... hope my answer helped you!
>Raquel (Quelli) Gershon
>


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