Re: zebra wear pyjamas/Geula Gill

[Ed Greenberg <edg...>]

I have most of these albums. I grew up on Oranim Zabar (born in 55) and we 
had "Shalom" and "Around the Campfire". I got "Hora" from the library and 
taped it on a cassette (back then.)

Recently I bought fresh copies of all these albums from ebay and made MP3s 
of them for the car. I also got "On the Road to Elath" and "A Town Hall 
Concert." If I add up all the Geula Gill/Oranim Zabar stuff, it comes out 
to about five hours of music.

Simon did not mention the cassette available from Folkways (via the 
Smithsonian) called "Holiday Songs of Israel."   Neat stuff.


>  "40 Golden Hits Geula Gill CD Geula Gill"  is one of our best selling
>recordings due to the fact that there are so many Israeli's in our area that
>came to the US in the late 60's and early 70's when Geula Gill was at the
>peak of her popularity and she is better know to them than Rita or Sarit
>Hadad.

I think I bought it from you, Simon. I enjoy it, especially when she sings 
Hebrew lyrics to popular songs like, "If I had a hammer" and "Do-re-mi". 
They're cute.

 > Last I heard, Geula Gill lives in the Los Angeles area.

I hope she is doing well. She must be about 70 or so. She had a hell of a 
voice when she recorded those albums.

</edg>

At 02:59 PM 11/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:

>In a message dated 11/19/1 6:55:35 PM, edg (at) greenberg(dot)org writes:
>
><< On a  double CD, "40 Golden Hits Geula Gill CD Geula Gill" is a song
>called
>"Why the Zebra Wears Pyjamas".
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>Geula Gill was a major artist in the 60's--not only in Israel, but in the US
>as well. She was part of the Ornim Tzabar Troupe and recorded with them in
>Israel, and in the US as well on Electra Records. All those LPs are out of
>print, yet we constantly get calls from these recordings.  She also had an LP
>on Epic Records.
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>Two other Americans recordings were released on the Folkways Label, "Israel
>Dances" --as the Tzabar Group, and "Yemenite and Other Israeli Folk Songs" as
>Guela Gill and Dov Seltzer  (her then husband). Both of these recordings are
>available on Cassette with the original Folkways inserts."Israel Dances"
>includes the dance instructions.
>Dove Seltzer, is one of Israel's greatest arranger/conductors, and conducted
>the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra on Itzhak Perlman's "Tradition" CD, his
>all time best selling recording.
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>  "40 Golden Hits Geula Gill CD Geula Gill"  is one of our best selling
>recordings due to the fact that there are so many Israeli's in our area that
>came to the US in the late 60's and early 70's when Geula Gill was at the
>peak of her popularity and she is better know to them than Rita or Sarit
>Hadad.
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>Last I heard, Geula Gill lives in the Los Angeles area.
>
>Simon
>Hatikvah Music
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