Re: Bawdy Yiddish Songs

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

I thought 'Joe and Paul' was actually pretty racy as well (BTW my wife and I 
could not stop laughing almost throughout the entire Henry show).
                                               EK
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 4:52 PM
  Subject: Bawdy Yiddish Songs


  Well, there's three things you're not supposed to discuss in polite society, 
so sex should give us a good respite from religion and politics...


    Anyway... how about dirty songs in Yiddish?
    Are there a lot? Has anyone recorded any? 


  The only one that comes to mind is the bawdy version of "Sha Sha, Der Rebe 
Geyt" (oy, di Rebbetzin), which has a series of vulgar verses in one variation 
(She's spreading...the cloth for the table" and so on).  The only recording 
I've heard it by Michael Alpert in an early Kapelye recording.  No doubt other 
distinguished historians on this list know more.
  Speaking of Kapelye, a funny line from the Yiddish Radio revue done by Henry, 
in case you couldn't catch it (it was in Chicago last week) is when the DJ  is 
annoucing simchas.  
  "Mazl tov to so-and-so on their anniversary....And Morris Stein is 111!  
Eh...sorry...Morris Stein is ill."  Also, Dave Tarras is touted by the 
announcer as "the Jewish Benny Goodman."  
  Lori