Impossible Dream • Britain's Got Talent

To skip the blabbing, start at 1:36. Wow. WOW! Fantastic stuff!



And for the full movie scene with this song (Man of La Mancha):

Monday Matchup :: Geshem Kaved/A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

We've done this before, but we didn't know about Monday Matchups. Aviv Geffen translates and interprets...



...Bob Dylan's "A hard rain's gonna fall".

The Candle Still Burns • Yehuda Green

It's never too late...we all make mistakes...no matter how far, whoever you are, it's never too late.

My people were on blissful vacation in the sun. Hence the lack of posting, and the lack of—נישט אויף קיין אידען געדאכט—Friday stream. Welcome back and thank you for surviving the silence!

Monday Matchup :: Beggar Woman

Megama (part II of this song).



8th Day - Love the cover; don't know why the video (not theirs!) has a male beggar.

Monday Matchup :: Blues • Moshe Yess/Mendel Singer

Moshe Yess (Journeys), "Pesach Blues"


Mendel Singer, "Kosher Symbol Blues"

Never Give Up • Safam

1993 - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

The Rebbe of Lublin • Journeys II

An income lesson,
From the soul of Moshe Yess,
Who understood things.

DISCLAIMER: This song is not about the Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz pictured, who is a mechanech from Monsey, New York. It is about his probable namesake, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz, "The Chozeh", of Lublin, Poland.

TTT :: Olam Haba? • Country Yossi

From his 2010 album "Ride Again"—20 years in the making—comes this piece of news:

You won't have a place in Olam Haba. They won't let you in.

Judah Macabbee - Safam

Thank You! • Yeedle

Teardrop • Journeys II

Challenge: fit this tune into Shabbos, Yom Tov or Yomim Noraim davening.

Above: Abie Rotenberg making teardrops.

Image by Jewish Insights

Yaakov [in English] • Moishe Storch

The great nephew of R' Yom Tov Ehrlich re-imagines the epic song "Yaakob" with expert tweaks to include American colloquialism and experience. He is the son of Dina Storch, niece of R' Yom Tov Ehrlich and composer of such mainstays as "Someday", "Daddy Dear", "Crack of Dawn" and "Bird of Hope."



First posted by Gruntig, who links to more about Yaakov. HT:SK.

Sophie • Destiny 3

To Yammo–

You're not wrong...

Respectfully,

א.ש.

ShirShelYom Editor 1

TTT :: Olam Haba • Rabbi Baruch Chait

For a while this has been creeping into the shuffle, and I've somewhat enjoyed it despite its goofy melody, lyrics and performance. I mean, it's Rabbi Baruch Chait, and it's soft and sweet and all. But then I did the whole "Open File Location" to see where it's from. It's Moshe Yess, on The Yess Legacy.

Now, composed by Moshe Yess, how does this song come into being? On the other hand, composed by Moshe Yess, how does one consider this song for the trash heap?

Then it came to me that [so far as I know], this song was never popularized by Moshe and may not have been his proudest work. The collectors and arrangers of The Yess Legacy were the ones who fished it out of the Recycle Bin to begin with. In other words, its TTTness belongs to the Legacy, not the Legend.

Move you mouse over this sentence and click the left mouse key to view this picture on the facebooks page of the worldwide web.

That Special Melody • Shlomo Simcha

When it doubt, Shlomo Simcha.

America Bless G-d

via Gruntig in the spirit of Unity

Monday Matchup • Forever One/We Are One

I'm So Proud • MBD

And I'm so glad this popped into my head two minutes ago. So I post this song to you-u-u-u-u!
Marty K. the big pro-doo-sa...his thick ci-ga, the pa-ty boo-za'...



Remember the scandal and the comments there. Yammo pointed to the awesome slap-bass in this track. Enjoy!

Happy 6th Birthday, ShirShelYom!

On June 3rd, 2007, Art Garfunkel launched ShirShelYom with his mellow and mournful Bright Eyes.

Today, I'm reposting it as the 885th song on the blog.

Thank you, contributors, commenters and spies for six very enjoyable years. Thank you to the composers, musicians, lyricists and performers for doing what you do. Thank you Hashem, most high, most deep, most personal. Here's to another many years of music!

PS: I hope to post some fun stats and reposts over the next few days. Anything you'd like to share? Share it in the comments.

PPS: Also, for our birthday, we bought ourselves the gift of ShirShelYom.com, so drop that .blogspot and dance!

Headlights • Levi Robin

The purpose of Chassidus is to bring the superiority of Creator to the attention of creation. Every creation. That is why I take pride in the observant Jewish performer who carries that message way out to creations with little awareness, using unique talents of metaphor, abstraction and mood.

The purpose of creation is to hold onto a nugget of truth and seek to crack it open, eat the meat and find the mine it rolled out of. That is why I do not condone the idea of Chassidim taking their Chassidus from abstract lyrics buried in the sets of wider-world performers.

This guy is a freakin good performer.