TTT :: Ve'oz Yihyu • Yossi Green • 8th Note

"Is this really terrible?" I can imagine you asking this question of yourself, as you seldom ask questions of me. "No, not really," I hear myself responding, though I am technically just saying. "It is not really terrible, but beneath its exquisitely-plucked intro and beyond its mellow low part, it is quite the whiny ear-worm." And that is why it has been TTTd.

Your thoughts?

Monday Matchup :: As Abie Remembers It...

"Tribute to Shlomo" (not sure of the year, but included on the original HASC Unforgettable Moments, 1987-1997).

Tribute to MBD & Fried, HASC 26, 2012.

Ein Aroch • Abie Rotenberg/Shlomo Simcha

From "Made in Canada", a collection of compositions, arrangements and performances by Abie Rotenberg, Shlomo Simcha, Yaakov Motzin, Harvey Ehrlich.



I don't know that any of them are Canadian, but you know how Jewish music is, eh? Oh, you don't? It's like this:



And, the Shabbos Mix is LIVE!

Yacov Young • Nachem

Vocally speaking, he is very, very good. Great upper-range control, which has a tendency to disappear into the supersonic. He shows up as the hired gun at weddings. (Google him for some pretty outrageous--I mean 60-piece string--Chupa situations that he's done.)

Very pleasant compositions, arrangements and performance on this "Yogati" release, his only All Young release (I think). For the seven weeks of comfort, we sing you Nachem Hashem. May these weeks continue with dancing in the streets of Jerusalem, still before lunch!

Ono Melech • Miami Boys Choir

To me, the greatness of this post is that I nailed the recording (Bisiyata diShmaya) on the first try.



On Monday we didn't matchup, because I simply spaced out on the day of the week. I had a matchup in mind, but it slipped. Okay. So it isn't Monday and this isn't a matchup, but here's another Ono Melech (MBD, Efshar Letaken).



Tough call. They're two very different compositions, each emphasizing its own mood and vision. In the end, I like the MBC melody, the MBD arrangements and both overall. You?

TTT Uva'u Ha'ovdim • Dudu Fisher

Another Yossi Green experiment, this one involves a world-class opera singer and Chazzan squeezed onto a Jewsic CD of songs, arrangements and Yossi Green harmonies that would likely be passed on by Yitzchak Simcha.

Dudu: Please, never on Fridays through Thursdays, thank you.

Tanya in Class • A.F. in O.T.

If I were a Rich Man/The Angel Song • Moshe Yess

We've never posted this story or song.



We've posted variations of this before. We just haven't posted this version yet.

Live Now! • ShirShelYom Shabbos Mix

Clickety-click to listenty-listen now!

Yehi Ratzon Milifnay Avinu • Yossele Rosenblatt

Yehi ratzon, venomar amein!

Why no post?

Recently, the upload programs we use have been more and more fussy about .mp3 vs .wma and sample size and megahertz and all that rock 'n roll or have just been konking out a lot more than any program should. That's it. I'll continue working on these things to continue posting to this thing and am thankful for your continued visits.
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TTT Shiduch • Yitzchak Simcha

Has anyone found this man's zivug? Birachamecha hagedoilim, please give it back so we can all just move on with living.

V'shomru • Avraham Fried

From My Fellow Jew. A piece that has worked its way well into the traditional Friday night nussach. Good onya, mate!



Shabbos Mix now broadcasting with the new Shuffle feature!

America Bless G-d

via Gruntig in the spirit of Unity

TTT • When the 1600s Call

The terribility of this song comes in a few distinctive flavors. Let us treat it like a wine: A little preachy on the nose, with an undertone of clueless. On first taste, you'll note a quick rush of defensiveness.

In serious: Yerachmiel Begun (and the Miami Boys Choir) are an obviously talented composer. His subject matter and messaging, however, are so deeply at odds with my hopes for the future Jewish experience (and for the future of Jewish dancing) as to make me really, really wish he would stop.



Anyway, that's my opinion.

Apologies for skipping yesterday's Monday Matchup. The track I was after was not delivered until this morning. But it was delivered this morning, so thanks Ber & Company.