RE: Lena from Palestina

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

As promised, some other recordings of "Palesteena" (which I believe I 
learned about _from_ YIVO, before Lorin was there):

Vincent Lopez Orchestra (11/16/20)

Eddie Cantor ("Leena is the queen of Palesteena ...") (11-20)

Original Dixieland Jazz Band (which Itzik knew of) (12/4/20)

Bob Crosby's Bobcats, w/ vocal (I think I'm discerning the shorthand right) 
by Nappy Lamare (3/14/38)

Hope that helps --

Robert Cohen






>As you probably already know, the chorus ("Lena is the queen of Palestina")
>can be found as part of the klezmer tune Nokh a bisl (recorded by 
>Elenkrig's
>Orchestra and accordionist Mishka Ziganoff). There is also a rendition by
>Simon Paskal in Yiddish (accredited to Louis Gilrod), and I seem to recall
>at least one other version.
>
>Apparently this tune is originally called Colea in gradinita (thanks to
>Martin Schwartz), a Romanian song composed by Narcissi Ludovic Daus, with
>known recordings in Romanian and Greek. YIVO has a Romanian version by S.
>Bernardo.
>
>Whew!
>
>Mr. Lorin Sklamberg, Sound Archivist
>YIVO Institute for Jewish Research


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