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Re: "Exotic" Jewish Music

Hey, this seems like a good place to bring it up.  I was told that Yma
Sumac, Inca Princess from Peru, is actually Amy Camus, Jewish American
Princess from Brooklyn.  Can anyone verify or refute this?

Lori

 At 02:53 PM 09/28/1999 EDT, you wrote:
>Well, "Almonds & Raisins Cha Cha Cha", for starters, which is like a Perez
Prado vibe on Yiddish songs.  It was on RCA and I forget the leader's name.
 Also, let us not forget Irving Fields.
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>It's impossible to find any kind of entertainment trend  in the fifties
that did not make it somehow into Yiddish entertainment comportment of one
type or another.  Bas Sheva's Capitol album SOUL OF A PEOPLE definitely has
a kind of Yma Sumac implication in its arranging and orchestration.
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>Also, there are a million chintzy cocktail versions of "Exodus" and "Hava
Nagila", including a medley of those two together by none other than Mr
Exotica himself, les Baxter, recorded in 1961.
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>Skip Heller  
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Lori Cahan-Simon

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