Re: Hello My Baby - Artza Alinu

[Sofia V. Shneider <soph...>]

> Jacob and Nancy Bloom wrote:
> 
> I happened to notice that, if you put the old American popular song
> Hello My Baby into a minor key, it sounds remarkably like Artza
> Alinu.  Does anyone know if this is coincidence, or if there really is
> a connection?
> 
> According to The Book Of World-Famous Music by Fuld, Hello Ma Baby was
> copyrighted in 1899, and was the first well-known song to refer to the
> telephone.  I presume that Artza Alinu was written during Israel's
> pioneer period, but I don't know, and it may have been written to an
> older melody.
> 
> Jacob Bloom
Maybe an author of this song - Hello My Baby - is Jewish...

Sophia,
Russia

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