Re: zebra wear pyjamas/Geula Gill

[Dick Rosenberg <mashke...>]

She also did a wonderful album with Theodore Bikel, "Folk Songs From Just
About Everywhere"

Dick Rosenberg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Greenberg" <edg (at) greenberg(dot)org>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: zebra wear pyjamas/Geula Gill


> 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".
> >  >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >  "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.
> >
> >Last I heard, Geula Gill lives in the Los Angeles area.
> >
> >Simon
> >Hatikvah Music
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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