Boy, I wish I could help with your request for "Ikh hob dikh tsufil lib." I have a lot of Yiddish songbooks, but most of the songs come from before or during World War II - and none have both piano and vocal notation. This song is from 1934, but I still don't have it.
I swear that the Barry Sisters sing "Ikh hob dir tsufil lib," which doesn't sound grammatically correct to me. Were the Barry Sisters Yiddish speakers, or did they just sing what was on the sheet music?
I wonder if there is a good source of sheet music for Yiddish pop songs - anybody know of one? I'll keep looking, but my preliminary search didn't find the song.
-Joe-
I found this listing (click) for the song at a Website at the Freedman Catalogue at the University of Pennsylvania:
Title: Ikh Hob Dikh Tsu Fil Lib -- איך האָב דיך צו פֿיל ליב
Also known as: I Love You Much Too Much
Author: Tauber, Chaim Shmuel (Shami) טױבער, חיים שמואל (שמאי)
Composer: Olshanetsky, Alexander -- אָלשאַנעצקי, אַלעקסאַנדער
Genre: Theater/Lament
Subject: Anger/Love/Rejection/Fool/Revenge
Origin: Alb T-005(c)/Metro Scher 29
Transliteration: Alb K-007(b)/Alb K-029(f)/Alb K-022(b)/Alb J-024(a)1/CD B-075(a)/CD F-042(a)/
Translation: Alb K-022(b)/Alb T-015(c)/Alb K-029(f)/Alb J-025(a)1/CD B-075(a)/CD F-042(a)
Music: SM Scher 2
Additional song notes: I Love You Much To Much Transliteration and translation in Ephemera 1552 From the play "Di Katerinshtshik" (The Organ Grinder), 1934/ See Heskes 2533
Related information in folder 122:On album: B-087(a) (Henry Berman: 1945-1948 -- חיים בערמאַן: 1948-1945)
- Document type: Email
Author: Olshanetsky, Alexander
Publisher: Friedman, RA
Comments: Transliterated songtext from original sheet music. Also, Yiddish text from Yiddish Forward , June 27,2003.
Track ID: 30769
Vocal Berman, Henry -- בערמאַן, חיים
First line: Ikh hob dikh tsu fil lib
First line (Yiddish):איך האָב דיך צו פֿיל ליב
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Yiddish
Style: TheatreContact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu