Re: Dietrich, como, unusual suspects

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

>more unlikely Jewish music...I have a recording of Joan Baez singing Dona 
>Dona Dona

You and zillions of others!--It was on what was, when released, the 
largest-selling LP by a woman singer in history:  Joan's first album for 
Vanguard.  (Subsequently exceeded by Carole King's TAPESTRY and since then 
exceeded again.)  I'm not sure this is that unlikely though; we've discussed 
Dona on this list and, though I continue to think that Joan's recording 
almost single-handedly made the song a world-wide folk song, it evidently 
had some folk currency before she recorded it.  In fact, it definitely 
did--since it was, I have been told, a New England folk singer (almost 
certainly not Jewish and, anyway, not in a Jewish role) who introduced her 
to the song, which I think he knew from a published (sheet music) version 
(in translation, obviously).

--Robert Cohen


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