Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 1279

[farfl's house <farfl...>]

World music from a Jewish slant wrote:

>                             JEWISH-MUSIC Digest 1279
>
> Topics covered in this issue include:
>
>   1) Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 1278
>         by "farfl's house" <farfl (at) idirect(dot)ca>
>   2) Re: Recordings: do they exist?  Ray Charles "Where Can I Go?"
>         by "robert wiener" <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
>   3) RE: Recordings: do they exist?
>         by Dick Rosenberg <drosenberg (at) dht(dot)com>
>   4) Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 1278/ in defense of Mezz
>         by "Kame'a Media" <media (at) kamea(dot)com>
>   5) Re:  Recordings: do they exist?
>         by Hayyim Feldman <hf (at) world(dot)std(dot)com>
>   6) Re: Recordings: do they exist?
>         by "robert wiener" <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
>
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>
> Subject: Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 1278
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 05:54:45 -0400
> From: "farfl's house" <farfl (at) idirect(dot)ca>
> To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>
> >
> > Subject: Mezz Mezzrow
> > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 03:56:38 PDT
> > From: "Judith Cohen" <judithrc (at) hotmail(dot)com>
> > To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> >
> > 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.
>
> I don't believe that any recordings will surface that will reflect Mezzrow's
> "true" background, because he actually believed that he was African-American, 
> or
> rather he had physically metamorphosized into an African American, and if one
> reads his ridiculous autobiography, the fact that he was Jewish was mentioned
> only to fill in his early beginnings.
>
> > 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!
>
> Your poor, unfortunate friend! Could they not have found a nice, semi-private
> stairwell for Mezzrow?
>
> > At the time I
> > wasn't particularly interested in klezmer or Sephardi music, and didn't even
> > know who he was,
>
> He often didn't know who he was, being so involved in the participation in
> various opium dens, and he certainly wasn't too sure, as evidenced by
> recordings, which end of the clarinet to affix a reed to.
>
> > but he wasn't timid about rectifying the last-mentioned of
> > my various levels of ignorance.
>
> He spewed out so many fictional events for others (paraphrased: "I taught Gene
> Krupa how to play drums in the style of the great African-American
> drummers......") that he eventually thought them to be the gospel himself.
>
> > 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.....
>
> Don't take his opinion as having any sort of substance. The only soul he knew
> about was that which he had to replace on the bottom of his shoes.
>
> Regards,
> Lederman
>
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>
> Subject: Re: Recordings: do they exist? Ray Charles "Where Can I Go?"
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 07:18:41 -0400
> From: "robert wiener" <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
> To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>
> Wolf,
>
> Yes, you had told me that the Ray Charles cover of "Where Can I Go?"
> exists.  Sorry if I didn't tell you that I had found it.  Thanks.
>
> Here's some information from the All Music Guide web site for those
> who might be interested:
>
> On CD:
> Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul/Have a Smile with Me
> Artist                 Ray Charles
> Date of Release                 1963 - 1964 (approx.) inprint
> AMG Rating                         (Good)
> Genre                 Rock
> Styles                 Bop
> Type                 compilation
> Time                 37:03
> A two-for-one pairing of albums from 1963 (Recipe for Soul) and 1964
> (Have a Smile with Me), with the addition of historical liner notes.
> Neither rate among his better albums -- both are inconsistent mixtures
> of hard-edged jazz/pop/soul and mainstream pop standards. Each,
> though, has some fine cuts, notably the Top Ten hit "Busted" (on
> Recipe) and a jazzy cover of Hank Williams' "Move It On Over" (on
> Smile).
> The CD also adds two bonus tracks: both parts of the orchestral pop
> "Without a Song" single from 1965. -- Richie Unterberger, All-Music
> Guide
> 1997          CD                  Rhino
> 72843
> Where Can I Go? (Berland/Fuld/Miller) - 3:29
>
> Also available on the following LP:
> World of Ray Charles [Argo]
> Artist                 Ray Charles
> Album Title                 World of Ray Charles [Argo]
> Date of Release                 1974 (release)
> AMG Rating                        (Good)
> Genre                 Rock
> Styles                 Soul, R&B
> Type                 compilation
> Time                 38:15
> There are a few clinkers in this set, but for the most part this is a
> superb collection of Brother Ray's early-1960s tracks. The gorgeous
> ballads "I Can't Stop Loving You," "Georgia on My Mind" and "Born to
> Lose" are included, not to mention the highly underrated "That Lucky
> Old Sun." For good measure, the album closes with the smash "Hit the
> Road Jack." All in all, an excellent single-album sampler. -- J.P.
> Ollio, All-Music Guide
> 1974          LP                  Argo
> 361
> Ray Charles                                  Keyboards, Vocals
> Where Can I Go (Berland/Fuld/Miller) - 3:30
>
> (I guess that you have to get the LP to get the extra second of
> music.)
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kame'a Media <media (at) kamea(dot)com>
> To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Date: Sunday, August 15, 1999 11:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Recordings: do they exist?
>
> >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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