Re: "Exotic" Jewish Music

[Reuben Radding <rrad...>]

No one is sure where the story originated, and as is the case with all
urban legends, the burden of proof is on the perpetuators of the myth,
none of whom have even shown any that Yma Sumac was named Amy Camus. Sumac
has denied it in fairly recent interviews. 

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

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