RE: Julio Inglesias Jewish? -Reply

[Peter Rushefsky <rushefsky_p...>]

My understanding is that Elvis's maternal grandmother was Jewish.

>>> "Seth Rogovoy" <rogovoy (at) berkshire(dot)net> 07/02/99 08:55am >>>
Elvis wasn't Jewish, but he WAS a Shabbos goy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> [mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Reyzl
> Kalifowicz-Waletzky
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 1:04 AM
> To: World music from a Jewish slant
> Subject: Julio Inglesias Jewish?
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry guys for bringing up this kind of "heritage" issue.   But I went 
> to http://www.zipple.com/ and found there a list of "Jewish Musicians 
> and Composers".  Julio Inglesias is included in the list. Julio 
> Inglesias is Jewish?  How?  Where from?   I am not necessarily a fan 
> of his but am just surprised to learn this.   Now that I know this, I 
> may listen to that romantic shmalts differently.
> 
> Wolf, Bob, if he really is Jewish, do we now have discuss whether 
> his music is Jewish?  Oy.
> 
> Van Halen too?
> Blondie?
> 
> The Jewish Telegraphic Agency recently wrote that Mel Torme, who 
> just died 
> was Jewish.   Never knew that.
> 
>    "Torme, who died Saturday at 73 of complications from a stroke he 
>    suffered in 1996, was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents on 
>    Chicago's South Side. 
> 
>    Immigration officials had changed the family's name from Torma to 
>    Torme. 
> 
>    In an interview some years ago, the singer recalled that he and his 
>    family would sit on the front stoop after Sabbath dinner and sing 
>    for the neighbors."
> 
> 
> Here is the list at the Zipple site:
> 
> --------------------FORWARD---------------------------
> OK...So it may not be "Jewish Music"! But, they are Jewish and they 
> are creating music!!
> 
> Paul[a] Abdul 
> Stan Getz
> Mandy Patinkin
> Herb Albert
> Go Go's
> Pearl Jam
> Burt Bacharach
> Benny Goodman
> Jan Peerce
> The Bangles
> Eydie Gorme
> Itzhak Perlman
> Irving Berlin
> Guns and Roses
> Phish
> Victor Borge
> Sheldon Harnick
> Porno for Pyros
> Beastie Boys
> Richard Hell
> Poster Children
> Blondie
> Iggy Pop
> Elvis Presley
> Blue Oyster Cult
> Julio Inglesias
> The Ramones
> Blur
> Billy Joel
> Red Hot Chili Peppers
> Eddie Cantor
> Al Jolson
> Lou Reed
> The Clash
> Dannny Kaye
> Buddy Rich 
> Joe Cocker
> Jerome Kern
> Rogers & Hammerstein
> Al Cohn
> Carole King
> David Lee Roth
> Cy Coleman
> KISS
> Rush 
> Sammy Davis Jr.
> The Knack
> Adam Sandler
> Depeche Mode
> Lenny Kravitz
> Neil Sedaka
> Neil Diamond
> Steve Lawrence
> Artie Shaw
> Dictators
> Jerry Leiber
> Dinah Shore
> Dire Straits
> Frank Loesser
> Alan Sherman
> Bob Dylan
> Alan Jay Lerner
> Simon and Garfunkel
> Elastica
> Lords of the New Church
> Carly Simon
> Mama Cass Elliot
> Barry Manilow
> Paul Simon
> Michael Feinstein
> Manfred Mann
> Steely Dan
> Eddie Fisher
> Marc Bolan & T. Rex
> Stephan Sondheim
> Free
> Tony Martin
> Phil Spector
> Bud Freeman
> Jackie Mason
> Barbara Streisand
> Kenny G.
> Bette Midler
> Mel Torme
> J. Geils Band
> New York Dolls
> Van Halen
> Georgre Gershwin
> Randy Newman
> Weird Al Yankovic
> Ira Gershwin
> Phil Ochs
> Paul Whiteman
> Warren Zevon
> =================================================================
> 
> 
> Reyzl 
> 
> 
> 



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