Re: Tantz Mit Mir

[Klezcorner <Klezcorner...>]

Hi Matt,

I'm glad you're enjoying the CD. I haven't listened to CD #2, the 
instrumentals..but playing the heck out of CD#1...that is a fun 
recording....sold out the 
entire shipment in 4 days!

You are correct about the lack of liner notes, however it has nothing to do 
with 'royalties', I've been somewhat involved to some degree with this CD set 
from the beginning as far as marketing...I helped in the design of the 
packaging...and come up the name...you should have seen it before, Feh!

I would appreciate a listing of the instrumental artists if you could please 
e-mail them to me.

The Al Tijuana information was a pleasant surprise. If you check the back of 
the original Capitol LP," Al Tijuana & The Jewish Brass" you will see that the 
music is by Artie Butler, who is a good friend...he also did the music for 
the Bob Booker & George Foster  comedy LP, "The Yiddish Are Coming, The Yiddish 
Are Coming" and is even pictured on the cover.

I met Artie at the store many years ago, and never knew his musical connecti
ons. Artie was a product of the New York Rock & Roll scene and played 
percussion on many hit recordings by the top artists, including my buddy, 
Jackie 
Wilson....that's how we became friends.

Artie was a protégé of Jerry Lieber (who worked at this store as a kid) and 
Mike Stoler. He went on to arrange/produce/compose many hit recordings for such 
artists as The drifters, Jay & The Americans, Julio Iglesias, and dozens of 
others. He has composed many soundtracks, the first being 'The Harrad 
Experiment", as well as  2 soundtracks for Streisand. He is still very active 
in the 
industry, and is now very much into "rediscovering" his Jewish roots and is 
planning to go to Poland this summer and do some concerts (as a vocalist) in 
Yiddish.

He also is arranger for Steve Lawrence and did the arrangement for the 
English hit version of "Halelluya" Steve & Eydie (the song was suggested to 
them by 
Mike Burstein) who released the song under the name Penny and Parker! 

Last month, the Klezmer Conservatory Band performed in Los Angeles, I had 
spoken with Hankus Netsky before he come out, and suggested he might contact 
Theodore Bikel (with whom he had worked on some projects )...he said he would 
and 
I also mentioned that Theo should bring Artie Butler...someone that Hankus had 
not heard of...yet).  The night of the show, Theo introduced Artie to the 
group and they were very impressed with his musical credentials and that he 
come 
to see them. But what they might not know, is that whenever I ran into Artie 
that night, all he did was rave about the KKB...he was totally blown away at 
the caliber of talent of the individual musicians.
Regards, and keep listening to those Heavy Yiddish Hits!
Simon

<< I got in the Tantz Mit Mir Cd that has been advertised on the list. It is 
a 
nice compilation of 1960's and 70's fusion klezmer. My only wish is that the 
producers had spent a little more time and space on the liner notes and gave 
the 
sources of the recordings. (But then they might have had to pay royalties and 
some of the recordings would be very had to track down who owns the rights to 
them.) 

I will admit that I am a big fan of this type of stuff, and have most of the 
instrumental stuff already on vinyl, and can identify them. I will warn 
people 
that one of the instrumental tracks is a vocal track sung by "Al Tijuana" 
(better know as Lou Jacobi [famous lines from movies "You cut the turkey!!" 
and 
"He thinks shtuping is a town in Bavaria"] or from other records produced by 
Bob Booker & George Foster  (When your in Love... You don't have to be 
Jewish... 
The Jewish American Princess... )
 >>

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