Re: Hava Nagila and Dick Dale

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Jacob,

I can't help with "The Star (of David)", but both "Hava Nagila" and
that great simcha classic "Misirlou" are on "King of the Surf Guitar:
The Best of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones" Rhino R2 75756 (CD)(1989)

Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Bloom <bloom (at) gis(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 11:31 PM
Subject: Hava Nagila and Dick Dale


>You inspired me to dig out my Dick Dale album, which I hadn't
listened to
>since I won it from the disk jockey at my Bar Mitzvah party in 1964.
>According to the information on the back of the record jacket, Dick
Dale
>recorded Hava Nagila on the album King of the Surf Guitar, and
Misirlou
>Twist on the album Surfers' Choice.
>
>My album is called Summer Surf.  It has a cut called "The Star (of
David)".
>It's an instrumental which sounds as if it should have words in
Hebrew,
>but I can't place it.  Does anyone know what it might be?
>
>Jacob Bloom
>
>>Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 21:17:06 +0000
>>From: Owen Davidson <owend (at) tp(dot)net>
>>
>>I believe a twist version appeared on an old Lp called "Twistin' the
>>Freilachs,"
>>along with similar teatments of "Dayyenu," and who knows what all
else.  An
>>English-language version appeared sometime in the '50's or 60's
titled "the
>>Circle," I think:  "Come to the valley/Run through the clover/
Harvest is
>>over/Dance, everyone, dance."  And wasn't there a surf version
recorded by Dick
>>Dale, of "Misirlou" fame?   Gee, I just had to go back and correct
my spelling
>>of "Twistin'."  I left the "S" out...
>>
>>Owen
>>
>
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