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

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

Name me that film, Wolf!  I'd love to see it.  Any info would be much
appreciated.

Owen

Kame'a Media wrote:

> 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

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Owen Davidson
Amherst  Mass
The Wholesale Klezmer Band

The Angel that presided o'er my birth
Said Little creature formd of Joy and Mirth
Go Love without the help of any King on Earth

Wm. Blake