Re: Songs about food in Jiddisch

[Joe Kurland <ganeydn...>]

Isn't there one that begins:

Amol iz geven a yid, hot er gehat a yidene,
Hot er geheysn, geheysn, zi zol bakn khale oyf shabes...

I don't remember the rest except, as in Lori's Burikes, it's about 
not having enough money to buy what you need to prepare food, in this 
case, to bake bread for Shabbos.

I think the chorus goes something like:

Oy shabes, shabes, shabes...
(can't remember this part)
az z'iz nisht keyn zalts, un nisht keyn shmalts...

Then there's the first verse of my own macaronic Shmir Me on the CD 
of the same name.


Zayt gezunt (be healthy),

Yosl (Joe) Kurland
The Wholesale Klezmer Band
Colrain, MA 01340
voice/fax: 413-624-3204
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At 5:46 PM -0400 9/11/02, Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:
>Sylvia, the one you are thinking of is "Lomir ale zingen a zemerl" 
>(Mir trogn a gezang, pp. 156-157).
>
>May I recommend "Burikes" from my CD, Songs My Bubbe Should Have 
>Taught Me; Volume One: Passover, which Michael Alpert and I sing, 
>about a poor couple not having enough money to buy beets or matse 
>mehl for peysakh?
>
>How about "Bublitshki bagels"?
>
>Or "Kartofl-zup mit shvomen" (Mir trogn a gezang, p. 216-218).
>
>Shvartse karshelekh mentions cherries, but the song isn't really about them.
>
>Do I remember seeing a song called "goldene yoykh"?
>
>Then there's "Hop, mayne homentashn" and a variety of ditties about 
>latkes and homentashn.
>
>There's a section on food in Zemerl at
>
> 
><http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~klez/zemerl/display.pl?subcategory=Fo 
>od>http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~klez/zemerl/display.pl?subcategory= 
>Food
>
>but I cant' seem to access it today to see what's in it.
>
>"Der Beker", the baker baking.
>
>"Di mume hodl" baking for shabes.
>
>And that's all I can think of for now.
>
>Lorele
>
>
>Sylvia Schildt wrote:
>
>>Re: Songs about food in Jiddisch 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 
>><mailto:r(dot)kamins (at) snet(dot)net>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: 
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>>[<mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>mailto:owner-jewish-music 
>>(at) sham 
>>ash.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.
>>Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
>>Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
>>University of Minnesota
>>100 Ferguson Hall
>>Minneapolis, MN 55455
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>>612 624-8001  ATTN:  Alex Lubet (FAX)
>>
>>
>
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