Re: yinglish

[Judy Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

Thanks Itzik!
This is great information.
Judy

itzik gottesman wrote:
> 
> If you want turn of the century, the older stuff, check out the songs
> of Isaac  Reingold. The ones that have been recorded are "shmilik
> gavrilik",(ben bonus and others) [I think the original title was
> shmilik azrilik] "A nor yokh mayn khasene" (Kapelye, Lifshe
> Schaechter-Widman). He wrote many songs using contemporary (1890s)
> american tunes and writing Yiddish songs to them, often with yinglish
> words . A book of his songs came out in the early 1950s by his
> children and included a number of tunes but by no means all that he
> wrote.  Also check out the volume "yidishe bine" (no date but1890s or
> early 1900s) the second volume, with lots of songs in this genre but
> alas no music, edited by Yehude Katsenelbogen. Very important work.
> There was a magazine that came out in NY in the 1890s and early 1900s
> with the lyrics to these songs. I am forgetting the name of the
> journal but wow, what great stuff . I read some issues in the music
> collection at Gratz College in Philadelphia. I am sure YIVO has them.
> 
> ?ÝItzik Gottesman
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