Habeit • Yaakov Shwekey

In preparing this post, I wanted to confirm that Shwekey's Shomati was in fact released in 2001 as I remembered. (I heard Shomati for the first time at the wedding of my brother E and my sister-in-law G in 2001. My how we Monseyed to that song!) So I heeded the advice of the Unknown Commenter to Friday's post and Googled it.

Not at all surprisingly, I was able to confirm that it was released—that Shwekey the Brand was born—in 2001. Totally surprising is that this song, per Mostly Music, is a categorical non-hit.

See here:

From the elongated Tachanun for Mondays and Thrusdays.