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29 Nov 99 - 04:40 PM (#142256) Subject: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Paul S In the BS: BS thread, Blackcat2 wrote: ya know - the reason why this has been such a reasonable discussion is the BS in the title - all the whiners who look precious seconds of their days checking out each thread in hopes of the ultimate musical answer (or whatever the HELL they're doing) aren't checking out this thread precisely because of the BS - do the threat over as a lyric req for Banks of the Ohio in Yiddish and see the "Fish" you reel in!
You may now consider yourself reeled in. |
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29 Nov 99 - 04:46 PM (#142260) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Blackcat2 Can I get a AHMEN for Brother Paul!
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29 Nov 99 - 04:46 PM (#142261) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Paul S BS |
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29 Nov 99 - 05:06 PM (#142270) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Little Neophyte Reeled, sheemled. Vhat kind of shlomeel vood do such a ting. You should be ashamed of yourself. Dis isn't kosher. From a putz I vood expect dis, but not from you Paul. Oy vay, your mother will be so disappointed in you. You vant to give her a heart attack, is that vhat you vant? I have no more to say Rabbi Benjamin Banjenski |
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29 Nov 99 - 05:16 PM (#142277) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Joe Offer Aw, darn. I thought this was a job for The Dialectizer, but it doesn't do Yiddish. Here's how it thinks Elmer Fudd would do it: BANKS OF DE OHIO-Joe Offer-
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29 Nov 99 - 07:18 PM (#142319) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Susan of DT I can't find my Teddi Schwartz record - she did just that sort of thing in the 1970s: take American popular folk tunes and sing them in Yiddish. I remember she did "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailley" |
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29 Nov 99 - 08:10 PM (#142342) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Little Neophyte Susan I think it was........... "Von't You Come Home Bill Bailey to see your Mother!" |
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29 Nov 99 - 08:41 PM (#142354) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: John Hindsill Gosh, I wish I still had my old (obviously) Mickey Katz records. Hoo Hah, then I could get some real belly laughs. Happy Hanuka--Hanukah, Chanuka or Chanukah--to all; it starts this Friday p.m.--John P.S. For all the marbles, who is Mickey Katz' son the broadway ector?
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29 Nov 99 - 09:00 PM (#142370) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Susan A-R WATS! I tought I'd weally get a chance to leawn Banks of de Ohio in Yiddish!! Oh Well, Gues i'll Just Have to stick wiv "Baby I Was Bown to Wun. Susan Awnowitt Weid (who is vewy vewy disappointed, and feewing quite weeled in.) |
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29 Nov 99 - 09:12 PM (#142383) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: BSer I'm sure the good Jews that bring you the Digital Tradition and Mudcat Forum appreciate your thoughfulness. Moses Asch that brought you Folkways Records is probably turning over in his grave. |
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30 Nov 99 - 10:23 AM (#142609) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Liz the Squeak Yeah, but seriously, the actor Mandy Patenkin released a record a few years ago, featuring popular songs all in Yiddish... If you really want the words, try there, it might be on it. And if this really is a wind up, you should be ashamed of yourself. LTS |
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30 Nov 99 - 01:24 PM (#142704) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Philippa This makes a welcome change from Jingle Bells and Amazing Grace in Gaelic (You wouldn't be wanting Christmas carols and hymns in Yiddish??). So here's a serious request; the translation of MAYN RUE PLATS (sung by June Tabor) is in the DT; can someone supply the original Yiddish poem written by Morris Rosenfeld? |
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30 Nov 99 - 03:13 PM (#142757) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: A search on 'Yiddish' in the Levy collection gives a mixed bag, from songs in Yiddish to a Yiddish cowboy. |
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30 Nov 99 - 05:24 PM (#142823) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: RiGGy Mickey Katz's son is Joel Grey. I still love his "Hame, Hame, affen Range", where he explains that a mountain lion is an "alta-couger"... RiGGy |
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30 Nov 99 - 05:31 PM (#142827) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Sarah-HS Oy Vay! Gevalt! I'd love to get my hands on this record, Nu? What's it called already? If you tell me I'll prepare you such a stack potato latkes that would make you kvell! |
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30 Nov 99 - 10:30 PM (#142969) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Charlie Baum I've posted the all-Yiddish version of Main Rue Platz. (A version partly in English is already in the DT database; this is the all-Yiddish version sung by the Pennywhistlers on "A cool day and crooked corn" Nonesuch, H-72024. --Charlie Baum |
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30 Nov 99 - 10:59 PM (#142992) Subject: Lyr Add: TOIZNTER MENCHN SHPATZIRN GEGANGEN From: Charlie Baum Well, the tune is different, but the subject matter is similar enough:
In 1934, Moshe Beregovski collected "Toiznter menchn shpatzirn gegangen" and published it in Evreiiski muzykal'nyi fol'klor {Jewish Folk Music], vol. 1 (Moscow; Gosmuzizdat, 1934)
A translation first, by Mark Slobin, who edited translated Moshe Beregovski's works as Old Jewish Folk Music (University of Pennsylvania Press, Phildelphia, 1982): --Charlie Baum (I'll keep searching for a translation of the real Banks of the Ohio into Yiddish. If I can't find it, I'll have to translate it myself.) "Kum gei shpatziern, a bissel shpatz mit mikh..." |
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01 Dec 99 - 01:13 PM (#143228) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Blackcat2 JUST CHECKING: Everyone does realize that the tread was not a serious request, right? If you didn't realize that - consider yourself caught! |
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01 Dec 99 - 01:25 PM (#143235) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: It isn't often we get to turn a BS thread into a rellevant one. |
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01 Dec 99 - 01:27 PM (#143236) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Paul S I was just wondering the same thing, BC2. |
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01 Dec 99 - 01:29 PM (#143238) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Charlie Baum Blackhat2-- I consider this thread a challenge, rather than a joke. Traditional Yiddish song offers us a version of "I Gave My Love a CHerry" ("Tumbalalaika"), and a version of the impossible tasks between lovers "Scarborough Fair" ballad ("Nimt mikh a bor fun di vald/Bring me a bear from the woods"). Anything mentioning "Ohio" in Yiddish is likely to be a parody, but there are probably serious kill-your-girlfriend-by-the-river songs; just that the river is more likely to be the Dniepr or the Dunau. And given that Cincinatti, Ohio was one of the main settlement places for Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it's not inconceivable that the Ohio River DOES turn up in the Yiddish song corpus, if you search intensively enough. --Charlie Baum
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02 Dec 99 - 03:59 AM (#143570) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Roger the skiffler Even if the original request was a wind-up, I'd be interested if you find anything, Charlie. I have a friend who has tolerated my "singing" in the past ( a rare breed) whose family is Middle European way back and who is learning the piano as a mature person (ie my age!) and Banks of the Ohio was one of the first tunes he was taught and it would be nice if I see him over New Year to surprise him with a Yiddish version! RtS |
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02 Dec 99 - 02:57 PM (#143740) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Bruce O. It appears that the song was originally "The Banks of the Old Pee Dee". But there's more than one river know as the Old Pee Dee. The McPeake's had it as 'the O.B.D.' |
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02 Dec 99 - 04:11 PM (#143772) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Chet W. There are two rivers in South Carolina called Pee Dee, the Big one and the Little one. They converge and enter the ocean at Winyah Bay by Georgetown, SC. Incidentally, Stephen Foster's "Way Down Upon the Swannee River" was also originally about the Pee Dee. Most of our rivers have their names that they had when Europeans came, and they generally end in "...ee"; Congaree, Yemassee, Wateree, Jocassee, etc. Chet |
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02 Dec 99 - 04:28 PM (#143781) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Bruce O. At the Stephen Foster Museum in southern Georgia, one can see a facsimile of Foster's MS with 'Pee Dee' crossed out and "Suwanee" written over it. I think this is noted in a very old thread here. |
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02 Dec 99 - 10:15 PM (#143951) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Susan of DT I'll try to steal that Teddi Schwartz record back from my mother and see what is on it. I hope it has liner notes, since I don't write Yiddish very well. I don't care if the original request was serious, obviously some people want to see the answer. |
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03 Dec 99 - 09:09 AM (#144091) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Blackcat2 Having a real thread grow out of a BS one is terrific. I'd be interested in "Wild Colonial Boy" in Tahitian, actually. I have a Tahitian dictionary and grammar but it's rather limited. Anyone? pax yall |
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03 Dec 99 - 09:22 AM (#144097) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: catspaw49 I think you need to get on it right away Blackcat!!! Translate it up and post her up. I'd also like to thank both you and Paul for starting this thread.....the funniest thread I've read in months!!! Spaw |
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03 Dec 99 - 12:50 PM (#144205) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: kendall anyone know LADLE RAT ROTTEN HUT? |
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03 Dec 99 - 01:00 PM (#144207) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: dick greenhaus While we're somewhat on the subject of Yiddish, maybe someone out there knows an answer to this: I've been trying, in vain, to find a song about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire that was contemporaneous to the event. No luck so far in English. Has anyone encountered one in Yiddish? |
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03 Dec 99 - 01:16 PM (#144210) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Áine FYI Dick, Bessie Cohen, the last survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York died at 107 in Los Angeles on February 21st of this year. -- Áine |
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03 Dec 99 - 01:20 PM (#144212) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Metchosin I have a 78 RPM of "Yiddish Mule Train" by Mickey Katz, would you like me to transcribe the words for it as a substitute? The flip side is "The Baby, The Bubbe and You" to the tune of Bibbidy Bobbidy Boo", but that's not folk music now is it? |
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03 Dec 99 - 02:51 PM (#144265) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Lonesome EJ Reading this thread has made me quite... verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves...I'll give you a topic..The Banks of the Ohio has nothing to do with either financial institutions, nor the so-called "Buckeye" State. Discuss. |
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03 Dec 99 - 02:54 PM (#144267) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Áine Metchosin, I would love to see the lyrics for "The Baby, The Bubbe and You"! Is the tune "Bibbidy Bobbidy Boo" the same one from the film 'Cinderella'? -- Áine |
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03 Dec 99 - 03:01 PM (#144270) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: catspaw49 Aw geez Leej, I'm on the floor here now.............too much................ Spaw |
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03 Dec 99 - 03:06 PM (#144271) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Well, we've made it back to a BS thread. |
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03 Dec 99 - 03:54 PM (#144286) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Sarah-HS Was it Mickey Katz who did "Getzel at the Football Game"? |
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03 Dec 99 - 04:12 PM (#144291) Subject: Lyr Add: YIDDISH MULE TRAIN From: Metchosin Yes Aine the very same one, unfortunately my limited understanding of Yiddish makes the The Baby, the Bubbe etc. cut, incomprehensible to me. However, I think I understand a lot of Yiddish Mule Train, a delightfully incongruous mixture of Klesmer and Bluegrass, but my spelling is way off.
YIDDISH MULE TRAIN
Mule train, Yo!
A package of salami
Get along and there's way more..... If you're really serious I could send you a tape....
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03 Dec 99 - 04:19 PM (#144293) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Sarah-HS Metchosin... you make me laugh so hard, I could plotz my kishkes! Thank you for sharing that version of mule train. I wonder if they're starting to bring back some of this chazerai on CD's. I wish they would. |
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03 Dec 99 - 05:01 PM (#144317) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Áine Metchosin, I would love to have a tape of the Mickey Katz '78!!! I'll trade you a tape of an interview I recorded off the radio with Mandy Patimkin (sp?) talking about recording songs in Yiddish, how he came to be interested in learning Yiddish songs, and how it effected his life. It's a wonderful interview. -- Áine |
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03 Dec 99 - 05:42 PM (#144331) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Metchosin Aine, do you want to put your postal address on my personal page and I'll send it to you. Sarah-HS. Waiting for CD's of old stuff is the very reason I will never give up my old 78's and LP'S. (I also love vinyl recordings for certain sound reproduction qualities as well) I'm glad I was able to pass on a good laugh. |
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03 Dec 99 - 05:58 PM (#144337) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Áine Dear Metchosin, Sent you the message. If you don't get it for some reason, my email address is on the Mudcat Resource page, and you can send me an email from there. You didn't say whether you wanted the Mandy Patimkin interview or not. Let me know if you do. -- Áine |
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03 Dec 99 - 06:12 PM (#144341) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Metchosin Aine, I would love to have the tape, I'll send my address to you.
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16 Jun 15 - 06:10 PM (#3717041) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Charlie Baum Still haven't found the Yiddish, but I just came upon the "Banks of the Ohio" in Czech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0zLo9fWpXw --Charlie Baum |
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16 Jun 15 - 06:59 PM (#3717052) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Banks of the Ohio' in Yiddish From: Jack Campin I've heard it done in Slovak at a festival in Kosice. This Slovenian version is better (less literal, I think): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0k2VgvcDcg I'm surprised Kinky Friedman hasn't done a Yiddish one yet. |