L'Chu Neraneno - Itzhak Perlman - Fiddler's House

Or as you may recognize the melody: "Shim'u, shim'u rabbotai..." BEEEautiful clarinet then french horn then accordion then frenzied-everything. With the vocal intro by our Klezmaniac friend Sklamberg.

Good Shabbos!

Hashem S'fatai Tiftach! - Yosef Karduner - Mikdash Melech

National Week of Karduner? Maybe... What an awesome guitar-pickly-and-trumpet intro! Also a subtly spectacular bass riff throughout. Finally, the "Anu amecha" bit at the end. What a great, great, great vibe!



BeeTeeDub: total accident that my heart stopped on two Karduneskies in a row, and from the same album. He's just that good.

I know it's not a good idea, but I had the mental image of this song being the background to a "JK Wedding Dance" style thing. If you work in my office and would like to try it down our runway, let me know the time and place and we'll subwoof the hell outta this thing!

Oy Abba, Karveiiiini... Litoratecha! Limitzvotecha! Likdushatecha!

Brachot v'Hoda'ot - Yosef Karduner - Mikdash Melech

Mellow Monday, boys and girls.

Flotilla Choir presents: We Con the World

:::POST 300::: Ho'aderes V'Ha'emunah l'Chai Olamim! - Tz'lil v'Zemer - Vol. III

Thank you Peretz, Levi, Shmuel and Shimshon and others for your sometimes humor and always humoring me, and thank you, you surprisingly respectable community of daily visitors who Ahhh, Ehh, and Huh with us.

Mazel Tov :)

"Nigun" - Itzhak Perlman - Fiddler's House

With vocals by Lorin Sklamberg of the Klezmatics.

The Rebbetzin of Lublin - Shlomo Carlebach - Greatest Stories Vol. 3

Good Shabbos!

The Search - (JEP) Shalsheles Jr.

As much as we love the JEPness of JEP, we appreciate the updated music and vocals presented in this Shalsheles cover. Fear not: the lyrics and kvetchness are as JEP as ever.

Ashreinu - Even Sh'siyah

The "classic" Ashreinu with a kick. Also, I once promised to feed Even Sh'siyah to you all piece by piece by piece...



...and there will be NO peace until...

Ooh! Ooh! So, I'm sitting on my parkway--wait, did he say "my" parkway?--my parkway, and Charlie walks by and it is Erev Shabbos and Charlie stops and gives a long and heavy krechtz. "Niiiiine shalom zochors tonight," he says. "Can't do it anymore. I just can't do it anymore."

It occurs to me that I know very little of Charlie's biography, so I ask him. "Charlie, how old are you?" And he says "I've been 69 for the past 35 years."

I sense the conversation slipping (as if it was a conversation and I once had a grip on it) and I feel the need to get more information, more details, more color so I say "But really..." and he continues "My father brought me here the year the Rebbe became Rebbe."

I did not know that.

מה איתי? - Arik Einstein/Josie Katz

מה איתי, מה איתי, מה איתי
לא מסתדר עם עצמי
מה איתי, מה איתי, מה איתי
איפה שכחתי את שמי

לא יודעת למה
לא יודעת איך, איך ומה
רק רוצה לברוח,
מה זה קרה לי
טוב לי או רע לי,
תגיד לי...

מה איתי, מה איתי, מה איתי
בטח הוא שם לא שקט
מה איתה, מה איתה, מה איתה
מה היא רוצה באמת

לא יודע למה
לא יודע איך, איך ומה
רק רוצה לברוח
מה זה קרה לי
טוב לי או רע לי,
תגיד לי...

מה איתי, מה איתי, מה איתי,
בטח היא שם לא שקטה
מה איתי, מה איתי, מה איתי
איפה שכחתי אותה.

לא יודעת למה
לא יודעת איך, איך ומה
רק רוצה לברוח,
מה זה קרה לי
טוב לי או רע לי
תגיד לי...

The Big K'nocker - Country Yossi

L'chaim! Good shabbos.

My Zaidy - Moshe Yess

Today is my Zaidy's 23rd Yahrtzeit. He loved this song.
לע"נ ר' אריה לייב ב"ר מרדכי צבי הלוי ז"ל
.ת.נ.צ.ב.ה

Chukoseho B'mara - MBD - Moshiach, Moshiach, Moshiach

What an innovative name for an album.

Is It Too Late Baby? - Moshav Band

"So you wanna know why you're here, and you wanna know now..."



Listen, hear, the "Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh" riff three-fifths of the way through.

Yedid Nefesh - Avraham Fried - We Are Ready

By request of CK. Enjoy!