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Funem sheynem vortsl aroys

Title

Funem sheynem vortsl aroys

Date

1962

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Kum ikh tsu mayn gelibter froy

Title

Kum ikh tsu mayn gelibter froy

Date

1948

Description

[Probably a dupe of Tape 54 Song 1. Notes on spine of tape box:] Misc. Ballads. Love Songs. Dance Songs. [Notes on back of tape box:] Tape No. 56 of 101. LWO No. 12,330 ?? Speed 7.5. Tracks: Full. Mono. Tape #63: Ballads, Love, dancing songs. [A husband finds signs of infidelity in their bed. What do you need these for as you have me?]

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“Kum ikh tsu mayn gelibter froy,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed March 19, 2024, https://ruthrubin.yivo.org/items/show/1993.
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Di fayerdike libe

Title

Di fayerdike libe

Date

1955

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Dos toyrele

Title

Dos toyrele

Date

1947

Description

Fiddle tune only. Berish Katz was brought to me by the journalist and poet, Wolf Younin, New York, in 1947. His songs and fiddle tunes were first taken down by me on a record-cutting machine and later transferred to tape. Katz had a little book which contained the texts of the songs his uncle MOYSHELE STAM or MOYSHELE fun GLYNA, HAD COMPILED. Younin’s voice is heard once or twice, questioning Mr. Katz. Although I tried numerous times to obtain the texts of the songs from Mr. Younin (who retained the little book), he refused to let me have them. The numbers referred to relate to the songs as they were numbered in the little notebook. Mr. Katz gave his own comments but rarely sang a song
he preferred to do the melody on his fiddle. The tunes, Mr. Katz said, dated from the early 80s to the beginning of the 20th century and he first heard them from his uncle, the badchen [sic] MOYSHELE STAM in Glina in Galicia, a little town near Lemberg. Mr. katz used the following English words in his comments: before, title, first, melody, “en-kurashirt” (encouraged!) 41099

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Geyt a yold in kapelyush

Title

Geyt a yold in kapelyush

Date

1955

Description

[Unidentified women singing along in background; probably Ruth Rubin & Sylvia Ary.]

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Sheyn bin ikh, sheyn

Title

Sheyn bin ikh, sheyn

Date

1948

Description

[Note from typewritten tape log in box:] These [marriage songs] are not songs of ceremonials or rites. These are songs which touch upon the marriage theme, either in jest, satirically, in dance or even in a children’s rhyme like [Tape 70] No. 3. Sometimes they bear the mark of the marriage entertainer (badkhn). [Handwritten note:] Like [Tape 70] No. 5.

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Lubavitsher tune

Title

Lubavitsher tune

Date

1954

Description

[Note in typewritten tape log inside box:] I recorded AVREML YUDIN first in 1947 on disks. Subsequently, these disk recording were transferred to tape. That is why the “clicking sound” is heard on these early recordings. I taped Avreml Yudin many times later, as the dates above indicate. He sang many of the old tunes over and over again and the quality hardly changed through the years.

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Shikt der har a poyerl in vald

Title

Shikt der har a poyerl in vald

Date

1955

Description

[Note from tape log on outside of tape box for the original, spliced tape, not included on the tape log of the dupe:] My childhood in Montreal, Canada, is closely bound with my Yiddish education in a secular Jewish school. Many of these rhymes stem from that environment, as well as the one at home, where my Bessarabian-born mother, shared her own childhood memories of games and rhymes and taunts and teasers, with me. Blessed with a retentive memory...I later picked up many more from my informants. The har (nobleman) sends various objects and people to do harm - like a stick to beat the peasant, fire to burn the stick, water to quench the fire - but they don’t do what the har intends. (Each object gets added and repeats in backwards order.) Almost identical to #12, “Hot der hashem yisborekh aropgeshikt.” 41842

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A dank dir gotenyu -- Dos freylikhe khosidl

Title

A dank dir gotenyu -- Dos freylikhe khosidl

Date

1962

Description

41897 Ruth Rubin master tape was digitized.

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“A dank dir gotenyu -- Dos freylikhe khosidl,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed March 19, 2024, https://ruthrubin.yivo.org/items/show/4614.
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Shpiln mir in kestelekh

Title

Shpiln mir in kestelekh

Date

1956

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Heyse bubelekh (Street cries)

Title

Heyse bubelekh (Street cries)

Date

1962

Description

[Note on typewritten tape log in tape box:] Poland.

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