Re: elvis

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

My mother was a Fruchter.  Didn't know I had a connection to Elvis.  :-)
Lorele

klezmer (at) yiddishmusic(dot)com wrote:

> Lionel Mrocki wrote
> > OK, so Elvis wasn't jewish... but he loved god and he loved his
> > mother and that's a good start!
>
> I don't have time to check this out (going away tomorrow) and the 
> article in the local Jewish weekly has already been clipped and sent 
> to another list member, but I read that Elvis used to live downstairs 
> from a khazn named Fruchter who used to lend the young lad his 
> cantorial recordings. The author hears evidence of this in Elvis' 
> later singing...(in addition to Elvis wearing a yarmulke in his back 
> pocket for "good luck" [oy]). I'm not sure I hear what the author 
> heard, but it's an interesting piece of background if it's true...
>
>
> Dena


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