Re: Private Specialized Recordings Collections

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Hi Bob:

I got a chuckle out of seeing my name with the word "oddball' next to it.

While I am certainly interested in acquiring "oddball" Jewish music
recordings and do
enjoy snooping around for old vinyl and 78's on my travels, my Jewish
music
collection is predominantly Yiddish --folk, theatre and pop, with some
classic klezmer
and modern klezmer-derived music, (many acquired through trading with
other musicians
on this list who have produced their own CDs and tapes).

I also have many old cantorial (vinyl and 78s) recordings by the greats
--
Sirota, Pinchik, Rosenblatt, Waldman, Oysher etc.
and quite a few old (many are quite worn, unfortunately) 78s (green label
Columbia, Sun)
and a stack of Isa Kremer on Brunswick.

Among my prize possessions are the self-released (12 and 10-inch) 78 rpm
recordings by
Vilna Trouper, Noyekh Nakhbush from c.1950.

German Yiddish singer Karsten Troyke  has a lot of cool old pre-War
Yiddish records handed down from
his father that made my eyes pop out of my head when I saw them in
Berlin, especially the inter-War recordings of the late Yiddish superstar
Benzion Witler.

Anybody heard of the rumored Elvis version of "Sheyn Vi Di Levone",
supposedly locked in the vaults of RCA?

Wolf

PS -- Bob --   I'll be at TONIC Sunday (1:30 and 3 PM) for Klezical
Tradition shows.




robert wiener wrote:

> The mention of the Chad Gadya collection made me realize that our
> group members combined probably have a collection of Jewish Music
> recordings that surpasses any collection in the world.
>
> But I also believe that many of us have focused our efforts on
> particular areas or themes.  For example, one of my concentrations is
> recordings on the story of Noah and the Flood.
>
> >From our contributions I believe that our specialized collections
> include the following:
> Ari: klezmer
> Christian: contemporary European klezmer
> Eliott: liturgical choral?
> George: especially jazz
> Gideon: rock
> Haim: Israeli folk dance
> Hayyim: rock (Leonard Cohen)
> Hankus: Yiddish
> Helen: klezmer dance?
> Henry: klezmer
> Ingemar: jazz?
> Itzik: Yiddish
> Jerzy: Polish
> Joe: ?
> Joel: everything Ladino
> Josh: Eastern European
> Judah: early music
> Judith: Ladino field recordings
> Judy F.: ?
> Judy P.: ?
> Lori (either): ?
> Marvin: ?
> Matt: ?
> Owen: ?
> Paul: early klezmer
> Reyzl: Shoah
> Robert: contemporary liturgical
> Seth: klezmer (+!)
> Simon: everything?
> Skip: ?
> Trudi: ?
> Winston: liturgical
> Wolf: oddball
>
> Please correct me if I've misrepresented you, annotate if I haven't.
> I've pretty much just dashed this off, so I'm sure that I've left out
> many.  My apologies to you.
>
> Please tell us of your special interest.  Anyone for Israeli pop or
> classical?  Yiddish theater?  Seder music?
>
> Bob
>

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