Re: Benny Goodman: di kuzine

[Jennifer Wollock <jennifer...>]

That's very interesting about Benny Goodman's
encounter with "Di Grine Kuzine" - it would be
fascinating to compare the two songs in more detail.
BTW, if I'm not mistaken, in the original song the
immigrant cousin is a girl.

Zhenye Volokh
Jenny Wollock

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Robert Cohen" <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:55:35

>Aside from the (overwhelmingly better known) "And the Angels Song"
(referred
>to in a previous post), the Goodman band also recorded "My Little
Cousin,"
>with vocalist Peggy Lee, whose music is the music of "Der Greene
Cousine,"
>the classic Yiddish-theater song about a new/"green" immigrant.
The words
>are kind-of insipid English--a bland love song with no
relationship to the
>original, rich lyric (in endless verses) of the journey of a new
immigrant
>from intoxication with the promise of America to bitter
disenchantment with
>the hard life he winds up with.
>
>--Robert Cohen
>
>
>>From: Susan Lerner <meydele (at) ix(dot)netcom(dot)com>
>>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>>Subject: Re: Benny Goodman
>>Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:16:49 -0800
>>
>>One of my bar mitsve students (I help prepare kids for their bar
and bas
>>mitsves at a secular Jewish Sunday school here in LA) has chosen
that
>>discreet and manageable topic "Jewish Musicians."  With a little
prodding,
>>he's narrowed it down a bit to Benny Goodman and Leonard
Bernstein.  We are
>>hoping the list can help with 2 questions we have about Benny
Goodman:
>>
>>1. Is there any information about Goodman's feelings about his
Jewishness?
>>Any comments he made or letters written that would be helpful, or
a
>>particular bio which discusses this?
>>
>>2. Did he arrange or record any Jewish songs?
>
>
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