Re: Shootin' w/Rasputin Request (a bisl off-topic)

[Pete Rushefsky <klezbanjo...>]

Bruce Adler does a terrific version of this (song is
actually titled "Palace of the Czar") on his Evening
at the Yiddish Theater CD.  Here's more information:

http://www.goldenland.com/bruce_disco.htm


--- Susan Lerner <meydele (at) ix(dot)netcom(dot)com> wrote:
> Khevre,
> 
> Just recently, some weeks after the discussion on
> this list about the song, 
> my 86 year old father-in-law launched into the first
> verse of the "I went 
> Shootin' with Rasputin" song for my 13 year old son
> upon learning that my 
> son is studying Russian history in school.  Needless
> to say, my son was 
> intrigued ("Grandpa is the all-time great song
> source," says my son - you 
> should hear Grandpa's "Yes, We Have No Bananas"! 
> But I digress...).  I 
> don't remember the song well enough to teach it to
> him and grandpa is now 
> back in NYC.  Can anyone recommend a recording, or
> barring that, a source 
> for the words?
> 
> A sheynem dank,
> Shira Lerner
> 
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