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Thread #7574   Message #4220792
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
12-Apr-25 - 11:57 PM
Thread Name: Origins/lyrics: Hey Zhankoye
Subject: RE: Origins/lyrics: Hey Zhankoye
There are images of an Asch Records (Stinson Trading Co.) release on the interwebs. That's makes four so far; or about once or twice per year from '45-47'.

Ruth Rubin-Birobidzhan memories jogged so far:
#1. Biro-Bidjaner Viglid. Same place, different song/album/label (Oriole (100-3.)

#2. Arranger Gertrude Rady (Barlow,) freshly back from the U.S.S.R.. Still working it. Interesting bit of folk trivia on her earlier departure:

World of Music
Gertrude Rady

As her farewell before leaving for the Soviet Union, Gertrude Rady, best known as composer of the Pioneer hit “Strike Me Red,” gave a piano recital at Studio 604, Steinway Hall, on the evening of April 11th. The proceeds went to the Downtown Music School, which has just opened its second term. She is not a finished artist, but she has talent, is well-taught, and shows fine possibilities. It may be added that “Strike Me Red” is now in process of publication by the Pioneer Office. The acting version and a music score (about sixty pages) will be available in about a month in an edition of 100 copies.”
[Carl Sands, Daily Worker, NY, 22 April 1935, p.5]


“BOX-FOLDER 78/61
Rady, Gertrude. Strike me red!, undated
Text by Harry Alan Potamkin and Sasha Small
Revised piano arrangement by Carl Sands
Piano and vocal score; script
Note: Operetta”
[Finding Aid, Seeger Family Collection, LoC]


Carl Sands being the Charles Seeger & Strike Me Red = The greatest Yiddish children's hip-hop “operetta” in the Orff method never heard. ;)