Re: home on the range in yiddish

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

Wow!



MikhlSpudic (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> Alex in Minnesota, Bob at UMass Helen in Calgary, ale farinteresirte,
> don't forget Teddi Schwartz's classic cassette of American Songs in
> Yiddish translation:
>
>              "Kumt Arayn" ("Walk Right In") Global Village C141.
>
> Teddi Schwartz, official translator into English of "Dona Dona"
> (banned in South Korea at one time, considered to be too incendiary
> according to at least one web source) has taken 15 classic American
> songs and translated them into Yiddish.
> My favorite is "The Hukilau Song:"
>
> "Oh we're going to a hukilau,
> To a huki huki huki, huki hukilau,
> Everybody loves a hukilau,
> Where the laulau is the kau kau, at the hukilau."
>
> How does Teddi handle the opening verse of this "Hawaiian" classic?
>
> "O mir geyen tsu a hukilau,
> Tsu a huki huki huki huki hukilau,
> Yeder eyner libt a hukilau,
> Dortn frest men un me hulyet bay dem hukilau."
>
> Among some of the other songs in Yiddish translation:  "Bashke Fun
> Payk" ("Sweet Betsy from Pike"); "Ay Hot Er Mikh Baredt"
> ("Scandalizin' My Name"); "Gedalye" ("Bill Bailey"); "Frumke Un Yosl"
> ("Frankie and Johnny"); "Mayn Manye" ("My Bonnie") and last but not
> least; "Faran A Kretshme In Der Shtot" ("Tavern in the Town").   Nokh
> mer..... still more?...
>
> I just spoke with Teddi on the phone earlier today.  If anyone is
> interested in her cassette, I can put you in touch with her and she'd
> love to hear from you.  She made this recording in 1970 and can be
> heard whistling and playing kazoo, together with singing each of the
> songs and playing 2nd guitar.  This infers a lead guitar, and there's
> also a bass player as well as a percussionist.  What can I tell you, a
> 1970s New York gig!
>
> A good night y'all! (a gite nakht aykh alemen!)
>
> Michael Spudic
> Forest Hills, NY (Vald Berglekh, NY)
>

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Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
Head, Division Of Composition and Music Theory
University of Minnesota
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