RE: "Donna Donna"

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Shalom Secunda wrote the music; Aaron Zeitlin wrote the original Yiddish 
words.  Arthur Kevess and Teddi Schwartz are credited with the best-known 
English translation (the one Joan Baez recorded).  Sheldon Secunda--Shalom's 
son, I think--must have ASCAP credit on account of some legal wrangling; he 
certainly had nothing to do with the creation of the song.

--Robert Cohen

P.S.  I'd like to request of this and other posters to *PLEASE* change the 
subject line of your postings appropriately.  This inquiry bore the Subject 
head "Recommended reading" (re Ellen K's book on Lubavich).


>   I would like to ask, if anyone knows who wrote the music to Donna
>Donna.
>
>On the Ascap sheet it reads : Arthur Kevess, Teddi Schwartz, Sheldon
>Secunda, Shalom Secunda, and Aaron Zeitlin.
>
>Did all of them write the music, or did some of them write the lyrics ?


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