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Am Yisrael Chai is probably the most widely known of all Shlomo Carlebach's tunes. It was composed in the '60s as an anthem for the Russian Jewry movement. Yisrael B'tach Bashem, Od Yishama, Borchi Nafshi, Adir Hu, Oseh Shalom, etc. are all Shlomo tunes.
Shlomo's later tunes include Eliyahu Hanvi, the Cracow Nigun, his last Uv'nei Otah rendition (the final song he actually composed). The "Best of 30 Years" compilations have a breakdown by decade but I find them somewhat over produced and over commercialized.
During the something close to 40 year period that Shlomo composed songs his style evolved. His later recordings have a more modern approach than his early compositions.
And his daughter, Neshama Carlebach, has taken an even more modern style of interperatation of her father's music with rock style leads on her self titled first solo CD and Shimon C Lanzbom's guitar playing on the Haneshamah Shel Shlomo album. Haneshama also featured Shlomo's singing too.
Since I own 57 recordings of his, I'm pretty well versed on all of it. I think it should be approached from a look at each decade and time period as Shlomo tended to change with the times although he definitely was at his height in the '60s.
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