Irish Yiddish? (Re: DeDanaan's Andy Statman cover?)

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

I don't mean to tie up bandwidth with useless jocularity, but how *does* Yiddish
sound in the mouth of an Irish speaker?  A serious question, for you who love
dialect, asked by one guilty of Celtic lineage.  Two anecdotes to provide 
direction
to my question:

I recall a story of Chicago jazz musicians traveling in Texas.  They ran across 
a
Jewish Texan fellow, can't recall how he was connected with the band.  The story
goes that Mezz Mezzrow loved to talk in Yiddish to him, just to hear his Texan
drawl.  Anyone remember the details on that?`

The second one is of my friend Eric, of the Californian persuasion, who had 
been in
England and had seen bagels for sale on the street.  No stranger to the tasty
toroids, he had still felt compelled to play the rube.  "What are those?" he 
asked.
"They're bygels," replied the vendor indignantly.  "I knew that's what they were
going to be, but I just had to hear him say it," said Eric.

Owen


> Me, too.  I didn't mean to imply it was in any way a "bad" show.  Yiddish in 
> the
> mouth of the Irish singer, was, however, quite a stretch...And she did mangle
> it; that's a fact.
> Perhaps with more rehearsal time and coaching she could have done as good a 
> job
> as Patinkin.
>
> Wolf

--
Owen Davidson
Amherst  Mass
The Wholesale Klezmer Band

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Said Little creature formd of Joy and Mirth
Go Love without the help of any King on Earth

Wm. Blake


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