Re: lai-lai-lai.... (vocables)

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

>My wife and I disagree over how to sing Shmuel Brazil's "Shalom >Aleichem" 
>as a wordless nigun.  She opts for Sam's version.  I much >prefer to sing 
>it as a "ya-da-dai-dai-dai-ya-da-dai-dai-dai-dai" >nigun.  What do others 
>think -- of this tune or in general?  Is there >a standard practice for 
>singing nigunim among different Hassidic?>groups?

I *think* Bob is actually *not* being entirely tongue-in-cheek--so, fwiw:  
Velvel Pasternak always taught, and I'm sure has written, that you could 
actually differentiate Hassidic groups/dynasties (e.g., Chabad from Bobov 
from Satmar, etc.) by which *vocable(s)*--that's the musicological word for 
these wordless syllables--they used in singing their (wordless) niggunim.

I don't have at hand precisely which assignments of vocables to dynasties he 
made, if he made them--but I can certainly post them in time when I next 
have access to that info.

--Robert Cohen

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