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Dear List
A customer asked me the following questions which I feel the list will be
able to answer much better than me, can I please email it here for the list:
This is what he wrote me:
I am trying to find out the answers, as mentioned, to the following
questions on Shlomo Carlebach:
1. How did he come to record for Vanguard, a blues/folk lable whose roster
includes people like Odetta James, Joan Baez, Skp James?
2. How did he come to record at the Village Gate at a time when it was a
focal point in NY for the folk and jazz scene?
3. Did Carlebach attract at that point a wider audience outside Jewish
circles given his "hippie Rabbi" orientation?
4. What are Carlebach's best recordings?
5. Has anybody written a book on him ?
If you could please send all replies to my home e-mail address which is
ben (at) apfels(dot)com(dot)
Thanks - Noa
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from: Yitzick60 @aol.com
To: Or Pnimi @aol.com
I would like to preface the response to these questions with a little
introduction of my
dear friend Rabbi Yitzack Aisenstadt who is first learning to use the
internet and is new to posting to lists. Yitzack practically grew up In Reb
Shlomo's
house and was with Shlomo from the very early beginnings of his musical
career. He is a tremendous resource of information of practically everything
you
could possibly ask about Shlomo Carlebach. He has been a guest on my radio show
at WSIA 88,9fm several times and has spoken on air about the "Stories Behind
the Music" since he was with Reb Shlomo when he composed so many of his
niggunim.
Michele
Reb Yitzack's response:
1. Shlomo ztl went to the Village in order to be makarev Jews. It was in
the early 50's`. His first concert was in a hotel in mid. Manhatten and
included
the first performers Pete Seeger and Kalman Kinory .The main attraction was
Shlomo Carlebach. That was in 1957. Kalman Kinori was also the chief
recording engineer in Vanguard records.
In 1958 Shlomo ztl recorded Haneshma Lach. In 1959 he recorded Barchi Nafshi.
The recording engineer overseeing all those recordings was K . Kinory. At
the time Shlomo was in the Village, Alan Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Simon and
Garfuncal and many others became his good friends. In the early 60` Art
Dalogoff who
was the owner of the Village Gate offered Shlomo a concert with recording the
concert live. Shlomo accepted it and that is how the VILLAGE GATE RECORD
developed.
Yitzack
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