Re: la rosa and Richard Farina

[Joel Bresler <joel.br...>]

Hi, this is a tantalizing reference...please let us know details as you are 
able.

Could you be thinking of

Raasche Jewish Folk Songs of Europe on Folkways? She did that song. 
Released 1960.

Yair Elnadav also did the song in a 1961 recording.

Very best,

Joel


At 07:48 PM 5/3/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>on 5/02/03 5:58 AM, Judith Cohen at judithc (at) yorku(dot)ca wrote:
>
> > hi, Lucy mentioned that contrafact of "Los Bilbilicos" (La rosa enflorece)
> > by Richard Farina, known as The Swallow Song. I learned it in fact long
> > before learning the Sephardic original . But I've always wondered where he
> > GOT the tune to begin with; when he wrote the words to The Swallow SOng it
> > was longbefore the Judeo-Spanish song revival. ANy ideas? thought maybe
> > during his time in France? Judith
> >
> >
> >
>
>If my memory serves me correctly (and I can't check this because my record
>collection is in storage) "Los Bilbilicos" was on an LP either on Prestige
>or Elektra  by an Israeli singer.  These records were issued in the '60s.
>Perhaps that was one source for Farina's learning the melody.
>
>Linda
>



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