Re: la rosa and Richard Farina

[Robert A. Rothstein <rar...>]

Joel Bresler wrote:

> As for how the song ended up in the song swapping group, my guess is via
> the version in the Bikel songbook, since they are quite similar and both
> actually misspell the title as "Bibilicos". Note that Bikel has not
> actually recorded this song, though someone suggested earlier that he had
> and I'd be grateful for a correction. (So would the artist, I reckon, since
> he's told me in an email he didn't record it...)

        My memory was faulty; I thought I remembered hearing the song on a Bikel
record, but apparently what I remembered was actually the version in his
_Folksongs and Footnotes_.  Bikel may not have recorded the song himself, but he
apparently was recorded singing it, as the Freedman catalog at UPenn documents
(http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/freedman/lookupartist?hr=&what=1038):

Title: Los Bilbilicos
On album: B-007(l) (Theodore Bikel, History and Origin of Jewish Music
(Lecture))
Vocal Bikel, Theodore
First line: Los bibilicos cantan, En el arvol de la flor.
Track comment: The birds sing sadly in the midst of nature's beauty.
Language: Ladino

        Bob Rothstein

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