Re: Weirdest Yiddish Recordings

[itzik gottesman <gottesman...>]

A while ago, I started to put together a Yiddish/klez lounge album in
my head but by now the "loung" thing is old so I didn't pursue it.
"Lounge" is in the eye of the beholder. For me most of the Barry
Sisters is not loungey, but when they started to do Yiddish versions
of English pop tunes in their later years it's heading in that
direction. Emil Gorovits has an album of his translations of American
pop songs which are pretty wierd to me. I would include Mike Burstein
doing "Der Chassidicher Twist" and there's Leo Fuchs, Eli Basse,
Catskill stuff.  If you included klezmer recordings it would make
your life easier - Bagels and Bongos, the other Irving Field stuff,
the Cha-cha albums, Twistn the Freilich etc,  but if it's just
yiddish that's more of a challenge. Has anyone put out a lounge
collection of Israeli Hebrew hits? I have a CD of greatest Hebrew pop
songs of the 60s and there are some doozies on that one. - itzik
Gottesman

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