Re: OT gypsy music

[Brian Dichter <dbrian...>]

on 3/18/02 9:38 AM, Gifford, Paul at pgifford (at) umflint(dot)edu wrote:

> I'm not really up on current recordings. There are probably
> lots on the Qualiton label, like Sandor Deki Lakatos, Ferenc
> Santa, etc.  These, however, are strictly Hungarian. If you
> want American-born or raised cosmopolitan, commercial stuff,
> you have to look for '50s LPs and '30s-'40s 78s. Possible Jewish
> groups or leaders  include Michel Weiner (Romany 10" LP, 1954), that
> Moskowitz didn't appear on; Murray Korda ("Gypsy in My Soul"),
> on Score (1957); Emil Bruh on Dana (more Romanian); Emery Deutsch
> on RCA Victor and Majestic (1940s); Alexander Haas on Mercury
> and Keynote; Jasha Datsko (Russian; "Candlelight and Roses") on
> a 10" LP and 78 album.  The most-recorded Hungarian group in
> the U.S. on 78s was led by Aladar Sio; this was a Hungarian
> Jewish group, according to Martzi Kallao, a Gypsy cellist who
> was in New York then. Early on Meyer Davis recorded Hungarian
> Gypsy music (1910s).  Some of this pan-ethnic marketing in the
> 1930s-1950s was similar to what happened to polka music at the
> same time. There's a lot more that could be said about this music
> but getting too heavily into it is probably off-topic.  On the
> other hand, there's very little on this in print or on the
> internet.  
> 
> Paul Gifford

Hi Paul. This is a nice list. I think many of these will be difficult to
find...but then again, part of the fun is trying to find hard-to-find
recordings. 8)

thanks,
brian

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