Re: Recordings: do they exist?

[Hayyim Feldman <hf...>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

>Just accidentally came across a gorgeous Ray Charles recording of "Vu
>Ahin Zol Ikh Geyn" in English ("Where Can I Go?").  Takes it out of the
>post-Holocaust Zionist context.  (Ingredients in a Recipe For Soul, ABC
>Paramount (LP), 465, rec. 1963 - don't know if it's on CD) -Hankus

Miriam Makeba also recorded this in English, without the final "Zionist"
verse.  I forget which early album of hers it was on.

-Hayyim

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Who by fire, who by water
  who in sunshine, who in the nighttime
Who by high ordeal, who by common trial
  who in your merry merry month of May          -Leonard Cohen,
    who by very slow decay                      "Who By Fire" (1974)
And who shall I say is calling?
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> Hi, I don't have information about a recording of Mezz Mezzrow that reflects 
> his background (re the query in today's Digest), but it reminded me of an 
> incident you might enjoy. Years and years ago, in 1971, my first Real 
> Hippie-Type Trip Overseas, (aside from the previous summer hitching through 
> ex-Yugoslavia) I was in Paris, and a Canadian friend ended up in the 
> American Hospital with appendicitis.I went to see him every day for a few 
> days, and his room-mate was none other than Mezz Mezzrow! At the time I 
> wasn't particularly interested in klezmer or Sephardi music, and didn't even 
> know who he was, but he wasn't timid about rectifying the last-mentioned of 
> my various levels of ignorance. Anyway, I had a couple of recorders with me, 
> and he asked me to bring them; the nurses were dubious, but he had me play 
> medieval and French Canadian tunes for him every day and criticized my level 
> of soul.....
> I'll be teaching at KlezKanada this week (so will my daughter Tamar, in the 
> kids' programme), so probably won't have much, if any, access to e-mail till 
> we get back. Cheers, Judith PS The editor of Jewish Folklore & Ethnology 
> Review is preparing the last issue before he steps down from editorship and 
> has just told me there's still a little time for me to update my ongoing 
> "sonography of Judeo-Spanish song" so if anyone has titles they think ought 
> to be included, let me know!
>
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> Just accidentally came across a gorgeous Ray Charles recording of "Vu Ahin 
> Zol Ikh Geyn" in English ("Where Can I Go?").  Takes it out of the 
> post-Holocaust Zionist context.  (Ingredients in a Recipe For Soul, ABC 
> Paramount (LP), 465, rec. 1963 - don't know if it's on CD) -Hankus
>
>
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> How do I get to hear this or get a copy?   
>
>
> Reyzl
>
>
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> From:  HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com [SMTP:HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com]
> Sent:  Sunday, August 15, 1999 9:51 AM
> To:  World music from a Jewish slant
> Subject:  Re:  Recordings: do they exist?
>
> Just accidentally came across a gorgeous Ray Charles recording of "Vu Ahin 
> Zol Ikh Geyn" in English ("Where Can I Go?").  Takes it out of the 
> post-Holocaust Zionist context.  (Ingredients in a Recipe For Soul, ABC 
> Paramount (LP), 465, rec. 1963 - don't know if it's on CD) -Hankus
>
>
>
>
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> We have covered this before, but
> thanks for the catalogue number, Hankus.
> (I told you it exists, Bob)!
>
> For laughs:   In researching the career of Eddie Fisher, I came across
> "Hymn to Hymie" by Molly Picon, from the Broadway musical "Milk and Honey"
> by Jerry Herman.
>
> Wolf
>
> PS  Woodstock '30 today at original site Bethel, NY.  Tickets only $19.69
>
> HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
>
> > Just accidentally came across a gorgeous Ray Charles recording of "Vu Ahin
> > Zol Ikh Geyn" in English ("Where Can I Go?").  Takes it out of the
> > post-Holocaust Zionist context.  (Ingredients in a Recipe For Soul, ABC
> > Paramount (LP), 465, rec. 1963 - don't know if it's on CD) -Hankus
> >
>
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