Language:
English
Pages:
XXI, 306 Seiten
Year of publication:
2002
Keywords:
Jiddisch
;
Theater
;
Vaudeville
;
Unterhaltungsmusik
;
USA
Abstract:
Once upon a time there really was a Yiddish vaudeville and it was amply documented on 78-rpm records for subsidiaries of major labels specializing in ethnic recordings. And the sounds spread in totally unpredictable ways, so you have Yiddish songs being covered by Cab Calloway, Mildred Bailey and Slim Gaillard. Leave it to Henry Sapoznik (and Michael Brooks) to revive this tradition with a stunning collection of 50 recordings that showcase everyone from Cab to Molly Picon, from Jolson to Benny Goodman, with some amazing finds like previously unissued cuts from Jolie and Gene Krupa. If these two CDs did nothing but preserve great numbers from Pesachke Burstein and Aaron Lebedeff, they'd be worth having. Beautifully restored by Harry Coster and remastered by Darcy Popper, with startlingly sumptuous sound. This is just flat-out great music.
Abstract:
The two-disc set is a song-by-song introduction (...) how Jewish pop became American pop, how klezmer became Yiddish swing became jazz, how Abe Schwartz's "Der Shtiller Bulgar" became Benny Goodman's "When the Angels Sing," how Secunda's 1932 Yiddish-theater staple "Bei mir bistu sheyn" became Sammy Cahn & Saul Chaplin's all-American Andrews Sister anthem "Bei mir bist Du schoen".
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