By The Wayside Stands a Tree - Itzhak Perlman

My Jewish Star! - Shlomo Menkes

Awe.Some.

Adon Olam - Tuvia Bolton

Down on the Farm came on again. I felt like posting it again. Last time I overposted something (Lashir), Jo Amar died. I'm not sayin' anything. I'm juss sayin'. Some things are better left undead.

Toovya Bawltin, layduzz n jennelmin!

V'Yiten L'cho - David Werdyger

From A Gerrer Melave Malka

Just got turned on to this site:

Toker.fm

Has a variety of stations including Carlebach and Chazzonus

Biglal Haneiros Hallolu - Shlomo Carlebach

Every question you ever ask is the Gemara's question: Mai Chanukah?

Lulay soiroscha into Haneiros Hallolu TTTO B'shem Hashem followed by Biglal Avos. This is to say: When the Torah (Haneiros Hallolu) is studied without the Nosein Hatorah in mind, at least zchus avoseinu toshia. Or something.

Va'ani - MBD

For GR and the 7:40 Daveners.

B'inyan Hasimcha LIVE - MBD/Aaron Razel

T'ka Bishofar Gadol - Shlomo Carlebach

From Unrecorded Masterpieces. A little banjo joy for the folks...

Hashem Zichoronu Yivarech - Yossele Rosenblatt

Lima'an - JEP

Shmuel,

This is what Helfgott sang on Motzsh"k. I don't remember whose it is, and the JEP version is certainly a different experience, but it is a very nice shtickel.



Oh, also: "Mizmor shir Chanukas Habayis," so, Chanukah.

8 Days of Klezmer

Not really Klezmer, but close...

Simu Shemen - Happy Chanukah Songs

8 Days of Klezmer

Starting from day 4...

The Dreydl Song - Klezmer Conservatory Band

L'Shem Yichud - Chanukah - Shlomo Carlebach

Cantor Yakov Yosef Stark - Ruzu D'Shabbos

The 4:00 mark, and 8:00 are gantz b'seder. I think Lincoln Center was still better.

HT: Gruntig

Ach L'Eilokim - Mi Armia - Lubavitch UK Boys Choir

Modeh Ani - Uncle Moishy

Happy Thanksgiving!

Daniel Ahaviel

ואהבת את ה' אלוקיך


HT:SD

Goles Mitzrayim - MBD - Let My People Go

Acheinu - Lev v'Nefesh

For Dovid Eliezer Halevi.

Everyone, Shut It! - Shlomo Carlebach

The track is actually called Hunger (Hinei Yamim Ba'im). Los Angeles, October, 1973.

Rozo d'Shabbos - Michoel Streicher

The redeeming thing is that when typing "Stre..." into the TAGS box, it brought up, להבדיל, Streisand. The other thing is that it's actually a gorgeous song, once rerecorded by Shlomo Simcha, but with a t'nuah that is more better in this version.

Hineni - MBD

Ever notice how long song intros were back when song intros were crazy long? This one clocks in at 1:25.

Hineni, I am ready.

Ad Musai? Nachamu! Ki Bo Yavo - MBD

A CD was released several years ago with just these three tracks. Ad Musai? Nachamu! Lo Yi'acher...

Dear Shluchim - Chaim Fogelman

This song was written by Chaim on a Motza'ei Shabbos several weeks after the Mumbai attacks. In honor of the continuing lifeswork of 4,000 families, לתקן עולם במלכות ש-ד-י

Azamer - 8th Day

Good Shabbos.

Tzelem Elokim - Shlomo Carlebach

"Why do people hate each other? Because you never know."

A little choppy, but still pretty damn straight.

w/Niggun Hashiveinu Eilecha v'Nashuva.

Shabbat Shalom - Sandy Shmueli - HASC VII

Shabbat Shalom!

Lulei Soroscha - Journey's III

To ShimSham and the others:
There is so much to learn, Rebbe,
All those seforim in the Liberry...

Thanks for spreading G-d's word.

Aibishter - Tzlil V'Zemer

אילו פינו מלא שירה כים,
ולשונינו רינה כהמון גליו...
אין אנו מספיקים להודות לך, אויבערשטער!

Today's song is dedicated to the giant joys of the little things, including that crazy way in which birds don't fly into your face even when they fly right up to it.

Oid Yeishvu - M.B.D.

Wonder how this popped into my head...

Gopak - Igor Moiseyev Dance Company

From El Purec, the "untainted" Gop Kazak.

Daled Bavos - Mordechai Brodsky

This is a recording called "Precise Melodies of the Chabad Rebbes. I don't know the where or what of its origins." It has some very beautiful and very un-ungepatchket violin and clarinet type stuff, backed by lagging and annoying keyboard bass chords.

ועל זה באתי על החתום
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Kah Echsof - Andy Statman

Mhmmm. Dass right. Dass completely correc. Love the bass-plucking-progresh from 1:48 and variations following.



MYSTAKE: I uploaded Amudai Sheish - Bilvovi instead of what I said I was uploading. Grr. Grrrrr.

Is it okay if I just place the correct one right...

here? Tx!

The Freeway/Beggar Woman - Megama

HT:YA

Happy Kaddish - Modzitz - Bentzion Shenker

And it was evening, and it was morning and everything was twice as good. - Adapted from G-d's Memoirs, Vol. I

We Are One - MBD - We Are One

The superstars...[pause for light giggling]...of Jewish music...[pause for uneasy coughing]...banded together recently...[pause to reflect on the possible difficulty]...in an unprecendented show of unity...[that's nice]...to lobby for the release of Sholom Mordechai Halevi Rubashkin...[now, now, now!].

Now: I don't like that song, so listen to this one instead.




As it is written on the Marvelous Middos Machine and explained in the Pirush Aish Someach:

Sholom needs peace,
A final release,
From Rodfei Sholom who called the police,
He always is quick to forget and forgive
And that's how Hashem wants us to live...

Sholom Highway - Shlomo Carlebach

The Highway of Peace is so small...that only people who love each other can make it on that highway. And it is so small that we will definitely see each other on that highway.

Hey, there's a reason they call it a "high"way. :)

Shalom!

Mimkomcha - 1979

HT: Gruntig

Keli, Keli - Rosenblatt + MBD

Who sings it better? (You get it? Cuz one is Rosenblatt... and the other one is not Rosenblatt.)

Bereishit Bara - Moshav Band

Leben mit a nechtigen tog.

Al Tira Avdi Ya'akov - Karduner - Melave Malka

Ya'akov,

As you walk down Cheshvan Road, fear not. For Yosef Karduner is singing to you to fear not. I believe this is originally a Modzhitzer Niggun.

Moses - Aaron Razel

Moses: Head Jew, 2368-2488.

Additional relevant info: The words are from the Gemoro describing where Moshe isn't buried.

מפני מה נסתתר קברו של משה? Why was Moshe's burial-place hidden from human discovery? Because Hashem knew well that the Beis Hamikdash was to be destroyed and the Jewish people exiled from their land... Lest they pass by Moshe's grave at that terrible moment and stand with tears flowing, begging Moshe, praying, saying: Moshe Rabbeinu! Stand up in prayer for us! And Moshe would stand up and successfully eradicate the decree.

The הגהות הב"ח concludes: From here we see that a Tzaddik is more cherished (i.e., listened to by Hashem) after his passing than even during his life.

Shwekey.

Andy's Ride - Itzhak Perlman

Hipdiddy Hipdiddy Hipdiddy Hip! Happy Tuesday!

Ezkeroh - MBD - Jerusalem Is Not for Sale

From the Ne'ilah.

Papa Can You Hear Me? - Barbra Streisand

With gratitude to Hashem, and a fresh round
of Al Cheit shechatanu lifonecha biYetzer Ho'roh,
For the sin of the heart's pull toward a female sound
I offer this epic cut of Kol Isha

I actually prefer Dudu's version in many ways, but nothing--nothing--comes near the rising voices and mind-blowing vibrato beginning at 1:10.

Kol Nidrei/Niggun Racheim - Shlomo Carlebach

Kivakoras - Shlomo Carlebach

Known in cantorial circles as "The Irish Kivakoras." Just kidding, but it sounds a bit jiggy with that wind intro, no? I think I have another recording of him dueting it out with Neshoma. Beautiful.

Achat Sho'alti - Diaspora Yeshiva Band

Technically an HH tag. Practically, I juss like it this.

Kol Nidrei - Neil Diamond - the Jazz Singer

In other words, the same thing.

V'haviosim - MBD - MBD & Friends

Late, perhaps, for the Selichos period. But isn't that what Teshuva is all about? Or is that Pesach Sheini...

B'Rosh Hashana - MBD - Efshar Letaken

To Everyone,

שלום וברכה!

May you enter the New Year with a light heart and a joyous spirit. May your prayers be meaningful and uplifting, and may they feel accepted and responded to by Avinu Shebashamayim. May all of the high points of your year passed be handily surpassed by the soaring highs in the year to come. And may the purpose be recognized.
Amen!

Tick-Tock - Sheya Rubenstein

Coffee. Check.
Selichos. Check.
Shacharis. Check.
Hatoras nedarim. Check.
Fresh batch of nedarim. Check.

Short day and lots of work, boys and others. Have a good day!



I won't tag his name so you never mistakenly find this track again.

Who Does It Best? - Machnisei Rachamim

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Malachei Rachamim - MBD

Shimshon and I spent the earlier part of this morning, the part normally reserved for saying Selichos, BBMing each other with various contenders in the Best Selichos Song category.

This one won. Go figure.

Rachamana - Kol Achai

Ezra Hasofer - Selichos - Eisenbach

V'Anpoho Nehirin - Lipa

ואתעטרת לתתא בעמא קדישא
Good Shabbos!

Yom Teruah - MBD

V'chol Maaminim - 1979. Well before his prime. :)

Mizmor Lisoda - Lipa

אזוי זאגט די הייליגע מחבר (קוק אריין אויך אין משנה ברורה) סימן נ"א, סעיף ט': שכל השירים עתידים להבטל, חוץ ממזמור לתודהההההההההההההההההההההההה!!!!!



UPDATE: Ber, behave! (Hashem lives with you inside your room!)

Ayei Emtzo'ekah? - Lipa / MBD

איה אמצעיך, ואיה לא אמצעיך?
אם אסק שמים שם אתה, ואציעה שאול, הינך

Where can You be found and where can You not be found? If I soar to the heavens, there You are, and if I fall to the lowest hell, You'll be there too.



Off of "Me'imka d'Lipa"; composed by MBD, sung by him and Lipper.

Ani Shabbos - MBD - Moshiach

WOW! I've never known the background to this song.

The story in very short: Once, while sleeping, R' Avrohom ibn Ezra was visited by an angel who handed him a letter. It was from Shabbos, and it said...
אני שבת עטרת דת יקרים, רביעית בעשרת הדברים
ובין השם ובין בניו אני אות, ברית עולם לכל דורים ודורים

(My possibly inaccurate translation: Hey! I'm Shabbos, the treasured crown of a cherished people, fourth of the Ten Commandments,
And between Hashem and His children, I am a sign, an everlasting covenant, for every generation...)

And since I haven't finished reading or processing, this is where it may be read and processed. Good Shabbos!

UPDATE: Ooops! Per the comments, I uploaded the Ani Maamin off that recording instead of the Ani shabbos.

Down on the Farm - Tuvia Bolton

He makes some good points, ya know? Some very good points he makes, this one.

Kol Nidrei - Berel's a Zun

Kol Nidrei the way i learned it.

As your mommy always said...

You can have more when you finish what's on your plate.

Candles - Uncle Moishy

Hey, look! It's pink!



.יהי רצון שיהי רצון, ויהיו לרצון אמרי פינו והגיון לבנו לפניו

A Zemer'l - Mordechai Hershman

♪
♫ לאמיר אלע זינגען, לאמיר אלע זינגען!
♬

Oseh Shalom - Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

HT:PTR

Beit Hamikdash - Tuvia Bolton

It's been a few posts since I needed to post a track, so here's a track I really needa post.



Every single element of this song rocks: the reggae-over-gospel groove; the simply-spoken lyrics; the kazoo (prompted by "play-that-thing"); and the endless parade of spectacular interludes at the end (afterlude is not a word and postlude is just unpretty. Which is not a word).

Whoooaaaaa, it will really be Sababa!
Much, much better than Olam Habba, aaaaah,
Yeeeahhhhh! The whole world will be biseider!
Can there be anything grea-ter,
Than to rejoice with our Cre-a-ta-a-a-a!?

Ki Lecha - Avraham Fried

This is off a recording marked "Kulam Sharim Hallel", which has tracks by Fried, Fertig and Farginigen. And ben David and Dov Levine Who We Love. And others. I'm placing it in the early eighties but I have no idea. Anyone?

Zochreinu L'Chaim - Pappa

Circa 1994

Mystic Heart - LevYatan

I'm in love with the idea; I need some time to get into the music.



HT:CZ (cubic zirconia?)

Gate of Return/Rhythm Messiahs - Diaspora Yeshiva Band

It gets a little Pink Floydy at 1:30, and then, so very randomly, all Ozzy O at 3:35 or so (in his post-Sabbath yohren). My, my. I sound as if I knew him in his Sabbath yohren! Which sounds as if I knew him. Which I didn't. Wish I did.

GATE OF RETURN


On the topic of elevators, I entered one this morning. One of the maintenance fellas was in there with a pail and Pinesol, washing the place down. And I thought "There is a lesson for my life in this scene of an elevator going up and down, stopping and starting, filling and emptying and all along, Alberto is inside working." I don't know what the lesson is, though.

Man, I can use another song!

RHYTHM MESSIAHS

Hamelech Hayoshev

Found this on a tape in my parents house in Montreal.

The Return - Avraham Fried

To apologize for the past without pledging to change is just another, more sinister form of wrong. To return, a changed person, without apologizing for the past is at worst an unfinished journey. This is why the ערי מקלט, though open to everybody, were only built inside Eretz Yisroel: it is one thing to live a life of חוץ if, when the time is ripe to run, you run to Eretz Yisroel. It is quite another thing to "return" to the same barren desert.

The T'shuvah Song - Marvelous Midos Machine

...Each day you can have a new start...

T'ka B'shofar Gadol - Yossele Rosenblatt

Do I have a sufficient number of T'ka B'shofar Gedolim to post one every day of Elul? You tell me. Do I? Of course I do. Why would I even answer? Why would you ask? Do you want to know? Are you asking? So ask! What, do I have enough, you want to know? Good question. Let's just say, yes, I probably do.



The challenge is in only posting enjoyable ones.

Hashem is so kind, he'll forgive you, with t'shuvah that comes from the heart. (Ha, maybe tomorrow that will post!)

T'ka Bishofar Gadol - Diaspora Yeshiva Band

WOW! watch the 1:30 first then the 2:08

O Hallelukah - Diaspora Yeshiva Band

!א הצלחה'דיקע חודש

Ha'aleinu/L'artzeinu - Yosef Karduner - Mikdash Melech

Do you recognize the lyrics to "Ha'aleinu"? I don't. But it mellows along a beautiful thought that seems to be "Bring us up to Eretz Yisroel in order to make us worthy of its holiness." Which reminds me of the "vikuach" "bein knesses Yisroel viHakadosh Boruch Hu." ("Knesses Yisroel omeres: Hashiveinu vinashuva, vHakadosh Boruch Hu Omer: Shuvu Eilai viAshuva aleichem." Yochid v'Rabim, halacha k'Rabim.) Maybe I'm disunderstanding the words. The next song is the next track on the same trail and it works very well as such.

Niggunei Modzitz - Michalkel Chaim

Presumably Bentzion Shenker. Especially love the kid beginning 2:04. Power, baby!

Bombeleo Parody - Meni Ozeri

Hilarious! Thanks Shimshon for sending it to me.

NY State of Mind (Jazz)

V'eineinu - Avraham Fried - The Time Is Now

Membah this? ("Ay-ay-ay, aaaal yideeei al yidei Dovid...")

Happy B’day Avi!

מיט גרויס פארגעניגען וויל איך דיר ווינטשען א שנת הצלחה,
אפשר קען איינער פון די חברי הבלוג פאסטן א פאסיגע ליד

King in the Field - Isaac Bitton (Raya Mehemna)

The rendition of the י"ג עיקרים is better than the song. I think. (Saying that also allows for a repost on Rosh Chodesh Elul--when the song will be the main point--when it will be more timely.)

Ki'Ayol Taarog - Tzlil v'Zemer Vol. II

Bond/Andre Rieu - Victory

Even more than the music, the energy! Because, you see, the energy is what you see most in this clip.

Enjoy.

Reb Shlomo - Ani Maamin

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!

Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels

This is the clearest and most recent version I've seen, and "Johnny's" solo, as frenetic as it is--in the words of veteran critic Ber--is also the most energetic. Good stuff.

EDIT by Peretz:

'nuff said

Shabbos Time - 8th Day

Shabbat - Adi Ran

Good shabbos!

Shma Yisroel - Yaakov Shmekey

Today, I listened to the words of this song for the first time and found them to be actually chilling. FML

Omar R' Akiva - MBD - Kulam Ahuvim

Apropos of the week before Lag b'Omer.

I've always liked the idea that:
מה מקוה מטהר את הטמאים, אף הקדוש ברוך הוא מטהר את ישראל.
Beyond the analogy, consider that the tahara of mikva is by and for הקב"ה. In effect, Just as a mikva is one way that Hashem can "purify" someone, He may also choose to purify ישראל Himself.

Jump into His mikva, baby!

Shabbos Koidesh - Avraham Fried - Yiddish Gems I

It wouldn't hurt him to re-record this, but the point remains:
!יעדער איינער וויל זיין הייליג אין דעם שבת קודש

Good Shabbos!

National Day of Rachem 2010

Ben Zion Solomon and Sons - Give Me Harmony


UPDATE: I mistakenly uploaded "Rachem al Tzion" from D'veykus 6 instead of "Rachem Bechasdecha" from 5. This is the corrected track (followed by the "mistake"):

D'veykus - Vol. 5


D'Veykus - Vol 5 6 (Rachem al Tzion)


Lev Tahor (A Capella)


"The" MBD Rachem - (Just One Shabbos version)


MBD and Friends (with Avraham Fried)


MBD - Moshiach Is Coming Soon


Shlomo Carlebach - Rachem (Have Mercy) - At the Village Gate


Tzlil V'Zemer - Vol. 1

Tax Man - Beatles

In honor of April 15.

Gut Shabbos - Lev Tahor 4

National Day of Mimkomcha 2010

ממקומך מלכינו תופיע – From Your place, our King, reveal Yourself and reign over us, for we wait for You. When will You reign in Zion? Let it be soon in our days, [and may it last] forever and ever. May You dwell and be exalted and hallowed within Jerusalem Your city for all generations and to all eternity. May our eyes behold Your kingship as it is said in the songs to Your majesty by David, Your righteous anointed: ימלך ה' לעולם, אלקיך ציון לדור ודור, הללו'ה!

Abie Rotenberg - Lev v'Nefesh I


Shlomo Carlebach - Hitoriri version (also on others)


MBD - HASC version (also on Solid MBD)


Yeedle - Shiru Lamelech


Yaakov Shwekey - Ad Bli Dai


Shlomo Simcha - Simchas Yom Tov*


D'veykus - Dov Levine & Rivie Schwebel*


Mendy Wald - LeChaim


*6/29/11 - CORRECTION: Thanks Moishe S. for noting that the previously labeled "Shlomo Simcha" was actually a D'veykus of some sort; Dov Levine, Rivie Schwebel and Co. Shlomo Simcha has been added...

Wavin' Flag - Young Canadian Artists for Haiti.

The idea is to take Young Canadian Artists and donate them to Haiti. A secondary objective is to understand how > my getting older > might make me stronger > making me "Freedom" > just like a Wavin' Flag. (Then it goes back! Very mysterious.)

If you like choruses, love collaborative anthems and adore execution that is fun and not incredibly self-righteous, like this. It is not We Are the World - 25, because it is fun and not incredibly self-righteous.

There is a video, à la We Are the World, which can be found on Youtube, but because of your lame efforts to help, I cannot be found on Youtube. Lament, lament Children of Zion; rend your clothes in mourning. Lift your arms in prayer, let your eyes rain tears, beseech the Heavens that they may comfort you, firebomb Ber's desk. - Me in my Book

Glass Harp

HT: Gruntig

Taamu Ureu - Verdict?

Is it time yet for a verdict on Ta'amu? Is it a "Hit"?

Personally, I'm filing it under easy listening.

Thoughts?

Black Wolf - Shlomo Carlebach

Which is to say: I must have forgotten to post it yesterday and last week and a month ago and before two years, but all is not lost.

Moshiach Yavo - Yosef Karduner

The Incredible Edible Niggun.

Adir Ayom - Yosef Karduner

"Ha-a-she-em eh-h-ye oy-zech, eh-ye oy-zech lee..."

I've always believed that MBD had Yeedle sing first verses on some songs so that when he cut in, the song would sound so many bajillions of times more better than if it was just a bajillion times very good to begin with. See also, Karduner, Adir Ayom, 1:01. (Except this Yeedle has a charm all his own.)

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