Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs

Subject: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs
From: GUEST,Sheila
Date: 08 May 10 - 12:10 PM

I found this site for ethnic folk songs, if anyone is interested.


http://joeschwartz.net/ethnic/index.htm

Sheila

Subject: RE: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs
From: DADGBE
Date: 08 May 10 - 10:50 PM

Thanks Sheila, great stuff! Here's a
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Subject: RE: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs
From: GUEST,laurapf
Date: 09 May 10 - 12:12 PM

What wonderful songs here in their original recordings! Thanks so much.

Subject: RE: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs
From: GUEST,Sheila
Date: 09 May 10 - 05:32 PM

Sorry about the above.

Thanks a lot, DADGBE.

Sheila

Subject: RE: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 May 10 - 06:10 PM

Quite a mixture!

I am delighted to have heard at last Sophie Tucker's rendition of My Yiddishe Mama, which (I read many years ago) was the occasion of an outlandish meeting in a hostel in Ashkabad, Turkmenistan, in 1932:

"As I lay on the sheetless bed, enveloped by gloom and stench,... I heard the sound of a gramophone in the next room. The record was cracked, and it played the then popular tear-jerker sung by Sophie Tucker, 'My Yiddishe Momma'. It sounded eerie in the _dom sovietov_ of Ashkabad, and I got up to find out who my neighbor was. I knocked at his door and found a young American Negro squatting in front of a portable gramophone in a bare room similar to mine, and in a state of gloom similar to mine. He turned out to be the poet Langston Hughes, whose 'Shoeshine Boy' I had read in Berlin and greatly admired...." -- Arthur Koestler, _The Invisible Writing_

Subject: RE: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs
From: Tangledwood
Date: 09 May 10 - 06:49 PM

Great link, thank you Shiela!
The choir I'm with is learning Erev Shel Shoshanim at the moment. The recording on the site will be great for learning pronunciation.