[Fwd: Re: Jewish Music conection to Elvis -Leiber& Stoller]

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Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
> 
 I did once have a conversation in Yiddish
> with James Brown, yes, THAT James Brown.
> 
> Simon
> Rock Around The Bimah

I would have loved to have participated  in that.

In a similar vein, it may interest some folks that tough-guy actor/song
and dance man James Cagney was also a  Yiddish-speaker.  He was not
Jewish but picked up the language during a Lower East Side childhood. 
In one of his films, there is a scene in the back of a cab where the
dialogue is entirely in <mameloshn>.

Wolf