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08 May 10 - 12:10 PM (#2902721) Subject: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs From: GUEST,Sheila I found this site for ethnic folk songs, if anyone is interested. http://joeschwartz.net/ethnic/index.htm Sheila |
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08 May 10 - 10:50 PM (#2902901) Subject: RE: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs From: DADGBE Thanks Sheila, great stuff! Here's a blue clicky |
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09 May 10 - 12:12 PM (#2903103) Subject: RE: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs From: GUEST,laurapf What wonderful songs here in their original recordings! Thanks so much. |
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09 May 10 - 05:32 PM (#2903300) Subject: RE: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs From: GUEST,Sheila Sorry about the above. Thanks a lot, DADGBE. Sheila |
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09 May 10 - 06:10 PM (#2903325) Subject: RE: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs From: Joe_F 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_ |
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09 May 10 - 06:49 PM (#2903348) Subject: RE: Russian/Yiddish Folk Songs From: Tangledwood 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. |