Jewish Music (New CDs, hock, and opinions)

[Yo ssi]

It's NYBC, not MBC. The source is from the album booklet from their second album. Let me see if I can find the booklet and I'll post it.

Woops I misread that. Thanks!

[YitzyS]

It's NYBC, not MBC. The source is from the album booklet from their second album. Let me see if I can find the booklet and I'll post it.

It was also printed in a Yated interview with Bald. I think I have it, let me just find it.

[YitzyS]

It was also printed in a Yated interview with Bald. I think I have it, let me just find it.

[Yo ssi]

Interesting!

[YitzyS]

IIRC, the "mashgiach" in the story is Rav Mattisyahu Solomon.












(Space intentional)









The "meshukatz" at the end is obviously Howard Stern

[Baruch]

•   The tune of Yossele Rosenblatt’s Shir Hamalos was a contender for Israel’s national anthem, before they settled on Hatikva.

If I have the right shir hamalos, those 2 tunes are also very similar

[YitzyS]

If I have the right shir hamalos, those 2 tunes are also very similar

Yossel's Shir Hamalos is the standard version, sung around the world.

[aygart]

•   The 8 minute Raza D’Shabbos by Chazzan Pierre Pinchik was split up on two sides of a record because early LPs only held 4 minutes per side.

LP is a format developed in the late 40s and stands for Long Playing in that each side was just under a half hour. All recordings by Yosselle Rosenblatt (other than those recorded for The Jazz SInger, and the 2 Israeli films under various names), Gershon Siroto, and Mordechai Hershman had this limitation. Most of Kwartin's recordings did as well, but IIRC there were a couple that he redid specifically to record longer. Pinchik, who died in the 70s was able to produce many more records after the advent of LP and I recall that he recorded Rozo Dishabbos a second time in that format.

[aygart]

I never saw the original, but I know people who have, and I believe it's readily available. I think the concept is almost identical, though you can check for yourself.

MBD - Daddy Dear
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R2QKmuqkZU&feature=share&app=desktop

(not sure if the link works still since Youtube is blocked on my filter)

[YitzyS]

Here are another two stories from that article. The first starts at the end of the previous picture, so start there before you read this.

[YitzyS]

Another music trivia question. Which Hillel Palay song was specifically put at the end of an album because the singer wanted to draw attention away from the song because he was afraid the lyrics would reflect poorly on him?

[YitzyS]

Another music trivia question. Which Hillel Palay song was specifically put at the end of an album because the singer wanted to draw attention away from the song because he was afraid the lyrics would reflect poorly on him?

Here's the answer:

In 2015, Yosef Chaim Shwekey released his second album, Hakol Letova. The final song on the album was a stunning Hillel Palay song entitled Kedusha. Lyrics are from a big mekubal from a previous generation, and they go as follows (via jyrics):

קדושה אני מבקש
,קדושה אני מבקש
קודש קדשים
אני מבקש

תנו לי קדושת
,ארץ ישראל
תנו לי קדושת
אהבת ישראל

(I can't find the original on JewishMusic.fm, but I found it as a single with Dudi Kalish. I'm not sure if this was released before or after Shwekey's version.)

Yosef Chaim Shwekey said that he deliberately placed the song as the last track on his album because he was afraid that people would hear the words and brand him as a tzioni. Thus, he kept the song out of a prominent spot with the hopes that fans would find it while kana'im would not. (Not his words exactly, I'm rewriting from memory, though I can find the recording if necessary - it's from a Z-Report Live with Yossi Zweig.)

Interestingly, after the song was released, Israeli artist Avi Miller released an album collecting Palay's songs. (The date on the website indicates this album was put out in 2014, before Shwekey's album, but IIRC the date is incorrect.) On that album, he sings this song, but he changes the words. Miller uses the words Ko Ribon for the tune, which happens to be a beautiful adaptation of the lyrics.

[zh cohen]

Golus Medley - Track 1
 
Pray and sing
The Little Bird
Dear Nikolai
Tatte - Thanks YitzyS
Goodbye Golus
When
Let My People Go
My Zaide
Memories last song

I found everything on JewishMusic.FM except for songs 16, 27, 29, 34 and 46. When I get a chance, I'll try to share the links.

[Yehuda57]

Here are another two stories from that article.

These are great, thank you for sharing

[YitzyS]

These are great, thank you for sharing

Now I just have to post the first few and the whole article will be up... 

[Yehuda57]

Just went and relistened to the worst song ever written, and his initial thoughts were correct, it was worth a quarter.


I kid, I kid.

[YitzyS]

Trivia question:

Which chasidish band leader is married to the sister of two music personalities?

[YitzyS]

Interesting factoid: Yerachmiel Begun's most popular song of the last few years was arguably not a Miami song. It is probably the song Lefonov Na'avod, sung by Shulem Lemmer

[Yehuda57]

Interesting factoid: Yerachmiel Begun's most popular song of the last few years was arguably not a Miami song. It is probably the song Lefonov Na'avod, sung by Shulem Lemmer

Uninteresting factoid: When Lemmer's album came out, I expressed annoyance with some of the song selection, most specifically saying that lefonov naavod sounds like a kids choir song. I had no idea MBC covered it.

[YitzyS]

Uninteresting factoid: When Lemmer's album came out, I expressed annoyance with some of the song selection, most specifically saying that lefonov naavod sounds like a kids choir song. I had no idea MBC covered it.

It wasn't covered by MBC. It was composed by Begun for Lemmer.