Re: Jewish cowboy music

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

"Lefkowitz the Cop" was not a Mickey Katz parody.
-S.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~lederm3/katzmain.htm

lownthl (at) mindspring(dot)com wrote:

> You've jarred something loose from my very young childhood.  My parents used
> to play a record featuring a meshugena singing "Duvid Crockett".   An Excite
> search engine helped me find a discography on Mickey Katz at
> http://www.bayscenes.com/ind/spidra/katzdisco.html
> I remember listening to two other Western-style tracks listed there:
> She'll Be Coming 'Round the Katzkills
> Haim afen Range
>
> Who sang "Lefkowitz the Cop"?  It wasn't included in the Mickey Katz
> discography.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Lowenthal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel (at) earthlink(dot)net>
> 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: Friday, January 29, 1999 12:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Jewish cowboy music
>
> >Wasn't Jewish cowboy music one of Mickey Katz's basic schticks?
> >
> > EK
> >
> >
> >At 10:41 AM 1/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >>Cross-posted from the H-Judaic list. Please copy Prof. Harrowitz on any
> >>replies to the Jewish music list.
> >>
> >>Best, Joel
> >>
> >>Return-Path: owner-h-judaic (at) H-NET(dot)MSU(dot)EDU
> >>Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:40:26 -0500
> >>Reply-To: H-NET Jewish Studies List <H-JUDAIC (at) H-NET(dot)MSU(dot)EDU>
> >>Sender: H-NET Jewish Studies List <H-JUDAIC (at) H-NET(dot)MSU(dot)EDU>
> >>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
> >>718 Commonwealth Avenue
> >>Boston, Ma 02215
> >>tel. (617) 353-6207
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Joel Bresler
> >>250 E. Emerson Rd.
> >>Lexington, MA 02420 USA
> >>
> >>Home:  781-862-2432
> >>Home Office: 781-862-4104
> >>FAX:  781-862-0498
> >>Cell: 781-622-0309
> >>Email: jbresler (at) ultra(dot)net
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>

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