Re: Tantz Mit Mir

[Bert Stratton <yiddcup...>]

Matt and list,

I, too, would like to know what is on the instrumental CD.
  
And what is the collection called.  "Tantz Mit Mir" doesn't get me too far
on the Web.  Thanks.

Bert Stratton




At 04:39 PM 2/11/04 EST, you wrote:
>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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