Re: Slim, Slam, Cab

[Marvin Margoshes <physchem...>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bret C. Werb <bwerb (at) ushmm(dot)org>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 4:21 PM
Subject: Slim, Slam, Cab


>Cab Calloway acknowledged, maybe in
>his memoirs, that cantorials strongly influenced his singing style.  The
>Calloway CD "Are You Hep to the Jive?" includes a classic of cryptojudaica,
>"Who's Yehoodi?"
>Bret Werb

Did the influence of cantorial music perhaps come about because Harlem was a
mixed Irish/Jewish neighborhood early in this century?  There was a
transition period when Blacks began to move in and Jews were still there in
numbers.


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