Re: "Exotic" Jewish Music

[Lori Cahan-Simon <lsimon...>]

Can you give me details?  

At 02:58 PM 09/28/1999 -0700, you wrote:
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>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:
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>> 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?
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>> Lori
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>>  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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Lori Cahan-Simon

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