Re: Benny Bell: Jewish/Italian crossover

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Wolf,

I wonder if the same sort of comments could be made of the Italian of
Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker in Puccini and Verdi operas.

Along the lines of Jewish/Italian crossover:
There is an Italian Fiddler.
I believe that somewhere on my shelves there is an LP of Jewish songs
sung in Italian.
And there is Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
More?

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: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: Benny Bell


>Thanks for your mail, Bill.
>Yes, the same Benny Bell.  He recorded in Yiddish as well, --
>(I have some 78s --)
>the material I'm more interested in.
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>Benny Bell was, -- our friend Henry Sapoznik informs me, --
>a non-Jewish Italian who learned <mameloshn>
>in hopes of gaining a place in the Jewish entertainment world.
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>However,  his Yiddish is <gants geshmak> and wonderfully earthy.
>Bell reveals a  sensitivity to the language in the cadence of
>his speech patterns, which echo <yeshiva bokher> question-response
>dialogues.
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>Wolf
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>Wolf
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>Bill Barabash wrote:
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>> I did a quick check on eBay and found the following:
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>> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=167305233
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>> Is this the same Benny Bell who did "Shaving Cream" and "Everybody
>> Loves My Fanny" on the "Dr. Demento" syndicated radio show back in
>> the '70s?
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>> -- Bill B.
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>> Kame'a Media wrote:
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>> > To the List:
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>> > Searching for Yiddish recordings by vaudevillian
>> > Benny Bell.
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>> > Thank You.
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>> > Wolf
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