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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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