Re: "Exotic" Jewish Music

[Reuben Radding <rrad...>]

It's been rfuted time and time again. Total Urban Legend.

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Reuben Radding
rrad (at) drizzle(dot)com
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Skip Heller  
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Lori Cahan-Simon
> 
> 

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