Yiboneh • Fried

Rewind Wednesday

Remember the Nossi • Retzoneinu Lir'os Es Malkeinu

And...we're live for Rosh Chodesh!

Monday Matchup :: Bnei Beischa/Build Your House!

"V'saiorev" Arvinam Freed – Goodbye Golus



"Wake Up" 8th Day – Brooklyn

Ma Yedidus • Avraham Fried

Yossi Green! Where are you?... Oh! There you are again.



Good shabbos friendlies.
Right here, right now!

Shtar Hatnoim • Avraham Fried

"Umitzad haSHEEEEEEINEEEEEEEEEEEEE...haloy heeeee...."

Akiva • Yom Tov Ehrlich/Avraham Fried

What happened to the child born at 1:32? I don't think he showed up to the Great Parade at the end of the song.

If I would have the time,*
I'd sit and write a rhyme,
For the English words to Akiva!
Akiva, Akiva, Akiva.

*and talent.

Ohr Chodosh • Tzlil Vezemer with Avraham Fried

Israel, circa 1989.

Yismechu Hashamayim • Eli Lipskier with child soloist Avraham Fried

Good Shabbos friends. Let the heavens rejoice and the earth itself dance in the knowledge of The King.
אלקות איז פלאם פייער!

Good Shabbos, Good Shabbos,
COME SING WITH US!

Monday Matchup :: Hinei Ma Tov • MBD/Fried

Image found on VINNEWS.com

MBD singing Avremel's Hinei Ma Tov from Aderaba.

Avremel singing Avremel's Hinei Ma Tov from Aderaba.

Oh, you two. Why don't you just go off and sing some Henei Ma Tov together... mmmkay?

Monday Matchup :: Vizakeini • Baruch Levine/Avraham Fried

This one made it famous.



This one made it pleasant.



In my opinion. :)

Monday Matchup :: Yisroel B'tach BaHashem

Shlomo Carlebach

© 1993, Joy Krauthammer

"Your hands are the holiest part of your body
because they reach the highest."

- Reb Shlomo Carlebach

Avraham Fried

Monday Matchup :: Im Yihye | Splash! • MBD | Lipa

From Selichos, Im Yihye, composed by MBD for MBD is from the middle of the opening paragraph. Expand image for context and content explained.

The second, composed by Avraham Fried for Lipa is from the end of the paragraph.

Bum-bidi-bum-bidi-bum-bidi-bum • Holyland's Greatest Hits

Think of yourself and three friends, all musically talented and all overtired, launching into a frenetic medley of camp play opening music, chassan/kallah welcomes and HASC overtures. You raise your eyebrows to effect a tune change and effect the change two beats before the last one ends. Now that was fun!

Bring in the professional musicians, the arranged notes and hit record for this:

Tuesday Try-before-you-buy Tune :: Ah Mechayah! • Avraham Fried

This is not really a review and is not, strictly speaking, a TTT. As I only yesterday received this recording, it is unfair to comment too definitively, so I'll share my evolving experience with Ah Mechayeh!, and nominate a candidate for TTT:

Day one, Monday
10:00am: "Oh, this 'Arois' thing was on the preview. Cute."
10:06am: "Poop."
10:07am: "But kinda fun topic and song."
10:10am: "Poop and confusing."
10:13am: "Just poop."
...
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10:37am: "How did Don Sami Rohr make it into these lyrics?"
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10:48am: "Wow, that kid is REALLLLLY creepy!"
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12:17pm: "Why are there nearly a dozen exclamation points in the song titles? This CD is a punctuation-happy music-lover's nightmare."
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2:00pm: "Well, it's not all poop."
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11:55pm: "Bentsh, bentsh noch a yid, noch a yid un noch a yid, bentsh bentsh aleh, mentshen... vet Hakadosh Boruch Hu, Boruch Hu, Boruch Hu, dir, dir, dir dir bentshen!"
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Day two, Tuesday
6:50am: "Bentsh, bentsh noch a yid, noch a yid un noch a yid, bentsh bentsh aleh, mentshen..." For sure a Lipa song, down to the warbling 80 year old in the background. (I have the recording from Amazon; no liner notes.)

So, there you have it. It's growing on me. I do think it is a little lyrically predictable, a little over animated (cross-talking, fourth-wall breaking), a little same-same from melody to melody, but a little enjoyable too.

Zei a Gute Yid
Probably TTT for the creepy kid saying "Yoh Tatte..." at the end:


Bentsh, Bentsh
Lotsa fun, catchy and uplifting, Hello Don Sami Rohr ע"ה at 3:30:

MONDAY MATCHUP :: Achas Sho'alti • MBD/AF

Also requested in the comments, comparing Achas Sho'altis is a definite "Elul Extra" good deed. But Tzlil v'Zemer has more than once given us more than one Achas (irony noted), taking away the fun of all those. Here instead are the MBD version from 1979 (V'chol Maaminim) and the AF version from 1991 (Aderaba) for your opinion on melody and performance and how they hold up to time.

Fried


MBD

Habeit Na • Avraham Fried

From Goodbye Golus, 1985. Cute concept for album art, but why is the "l" in "lamm" lowercase?

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.

Tanya in Class • A.F. in O.T.

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!

Change the World • Avraham Fried

Written and released for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Lyrics by Fried, arrangements by Lamm.

First the less excellent: Uncomfortably cliche lyrics at points; a little indecisive with the beat; karaoke harmonies toward and through the end.

Next the excellent: Very singable, thoughtful and true; good candidate for a We Are the World singalongaling. Fun.

Enjoy!