Re: Jewish cowboy music

[farfl's house <farfl...>]

There's little point in bothering with that recording if one can get
ahold of the original!
Even though the musical portion of the re-do is extremely well-done,
Byron's versions lack the charisma.
-Steven

robert wiener wrote:

>  I'm not sure if Mickey Katz is what Professor Harrow had in mind, but
> I don't believe that anyone has mentioned Don Byron's "Plays the Music
> of Mickey Katz" including "Haim Afen Range" ("Home on the Range"). Bob
>
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: Julian Siegel <jsiegel (at) mdsi(dot)bc(dot)ca>
>      To: World music from a Jewish slant.
>      <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>      Cc: nharrow (at) bu(dot)edu <nharrow (at) bu(dot)edu>
>      Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 12:22 PM
>      Subject: Re: Jewish cowboy music
>       1. The Tzimmes first album "Sweet and Hot" features the
>      song "Gib Mir A Heym", a Yiddish translation of Home On the
>      Range (liner notes give credit to source).
>
>      2. Kinky Friedman (of mystery novel fame) has several
>      recordings with, shall we say, a "Judeo-Texan" style.
>
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>      >Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:40:26 -0500
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>      >From: Aviva Ben-Ur <aben-ur (at) oise(dot)utoronto(dot)ca>
>      >Subject: Query: Yiddish Cowboy Songs (Harrowitz)
>      >To: H-JUDAIC (at) H-NET(dot)MSU(dot)EDU
>      >
>      >From: Nancy Harrowitz <nharrow (at) bu(dot)edu>
>      >
>      > Has anyone ever heard of western United States cowboy
>      songs being
>      >translated into Yiddish and thus existing as some sort of
>      genre in itself
>      >(ie Yiddish cowboy songs)? Is there any scholarship on this
>      and where
>      >could I find more information?
>      >
>      >Thanks very much,
>      >Prof. Nancy Harrowitz
>      >Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
>      >Boston University
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