Re: Songs about food in Jiddisch

[Allen Davis <adavis...>]

Is it A Zemerl?

Allen

At 04:47 PM 9/11/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Shana tova.
>
>Three others come to mind .... the first I am sure some will recognize and 
>help me with - it's a comparison between rich and poor. when a rich man 
>eats meat, it's such and such, but when a poor man eats meat, it's just a 
>something or other. That's the pattern of the song - meat, fish, bread. Help!
>
>The second one is a folk favorite - Varnichkes.
>
>The last one is a borscht belt classic aptly named Esn.  It can be found 
>on a recent CD of Yiddish humor and it enumerates the entire typical 
>Grossinger's type menu down to the alka-seltzer.
>
>
>Sylvia Schildt
>Chair
>8th World Conference
>International Association of Yiddish Clubs (IAYC)
>Baltimore, MD September 4,5,6,7 2003
>
>
>
>on 9/11/02 4:29 PM, Richard Kamins at r(dot)kamins (at) snet(dot)net wrote:
>The Adrienne Cooper songs referred to are "Borsht" (which is more of a 
>love song than food song" and "Yontev Peysakh" - the latter song is best 
>for food references.  Shirim recorded "Bulbes" (potatoes) on their Newport 
>Classics Cd, "Oy, It's Good."
>Richard
>From: Alex Lubet
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 4:15 PM
>Subject: RE: Songs about food in Jiddisch
>
>Adrienne Cooper has a lovely song about holiday foods on Dreaming in 
>Yiddish , can't recall the title.
>
>At 03:53 PM 9/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Off the top of my head I can think of Yidishe Maykholim written by 
>Shimshon Kemelmakher and sung by Wolf Krakowski on his album Gilgul / 
>Transmigrations.
>G'Mar Tov
>Mordi -----Original Message----- From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org 
>[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Karin Sent: 
>Wednesday, 
>September 11, 2002 14:04 To: World music from a Jewish slant Subject: 
>Songs about food in Jiddisch
>
>Can anybody help me with titles, music, texts, backrgound information I'd 
>like to make a list with as many songs as I can find with as much info as 
>possible... Thanking all, Karin
>
>Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
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>University of Minnesota
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