Re: Online song database (Was: barry sisters)

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

Thanks. I am trying to collect (or at least document) every recording with
at least one Ladino selection, worldwide, from 78s forward. As you can
imagine this database was of keen interest to me. I was grateful for the
reference.

When my own work is ready for review I will alert the list. I (perhaps
naively) didn't realize when I started that I was undertaking a multi-year
project...

B'shalom,

Joel

At 12:13 AM 11/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 7:32 PM -0500 11/15/98, Joel Bresler wrote:
>>Chevra,
>>
>>This database was previously unknown to me. Are there others on the net
>>that anyone can point me to? The web page terms it a "Yiddish Song
>>Database", while in fact it has Ladino (and presumably other languages) as
>>well.
>
>Raphael Finkel created, and named, the "Yiddish Song Database" as a
>web-based front end to a database created by Robert Freedman.  This
>database in turn records the contents of the private collection that became
>the Robert and Molly Freedman Archive of Jewish Music at the University of
>Pennsylvania.
>
>So, anyhow, it is now officially known as an archive of "Jewish", not just
>Yiddish, music.
>
>This was originally the private collection by Robert Freedman.  As far as I
>know, he set out to collect every recording of Yiddish music.  I don't know
>to what extent he did or didn't seek to include other languages, but since
>Yiddish music is found on recordings with music in other languages, even if
>he'd wanted to, he could not have avoided getting Ladino, Hebrew, English,
>Russian, etc.
>
>(If Bob Freedman had just collected the recordings, dayenu!  But to so
>meticulously record every item in a database, including the feat of
>encoding Hebrew-alphabet data when there wasn't any supported way of doing
>this, well it just fills me with awe and wonder!)
>
>The web site for the Robert and Molly Freedman Archive of Jewish Music is:
>
>http://www.library.upenn.edu/friends/freed/
>
>Unfortunately, I don't know of anything quite like The Yiddish Song
>Database on the net.  Seems there ought to be more things like this coming
>out of libraries by now.
>
>Mark David
>
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