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"

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 • 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.

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.

Lefonov • Moshe Yess/Avraham Fried

It's Monday Match-up!

This Lefonov Naavod was composed by Rabbi Baruch Chait, made famous by Avraham Fried on Goodbye Golus (1985) and made awesome by Moshe Yess on "Moshe Yess sings Rabbi Baruch Chait." End.

PIRSUM RISHON* Kotzk • Moshe Yess sings Baruch Chait

It may not be pretty, but it is gorgeous nonethelesser.

As the man himself might have sung: "I may not be as sweet as you, but there's something you should know is true... every Moshe Yess performance has Moshe Yess's feeling too."

G-d bless the man, the music and the message. G-d bless you too.



Thank you, thank you, thank you YR for unearthing this otherworldly experience.

*As far as I could Google.

Fifer/Yankel • Monday Matchup

A young boy grows into an old fool. What eventually happens? How do his parents react? And what does this come to show? This Monday-matchup is your invitation to felafesize on the topic.

Moshe Yess - "Rabbi Yitzchak Levi Fifer" - (Album: Shabbos on my mind)



Abie Rotenberg - "Yankel" - (Album: Journeys II)

Niggun Lecha Dodi • Moshe Yess

The recording is called Shabbos on My Mind; 12 tracks in all, two about Shabbos ("If I would have the might" and "Shabbos on my mind") and this, the final of the album that says without saying a thing, You know that I've got Shabbos on my mind.

Good Shabbos, friends. a

The Wagoneer • Dovid Negin (Yess Legacy)

The good thing about a world-class lyricist is that no matter how the performer performs, the soul will always come through in the poetry. This is from the Yess Legacy; I don't remember hearing it on any recordings but do remember Moshe Yess performing it in summer camp, circa 1995.

Good Shabbos!

Mountain Dew • Moshe Yess

Earlier this week, the Yess Legacy was finally released--a range of performers covering 29 songs from the mind-blowing catalogue of Moshe Yess and Moshe Yess himself covering the old drinking song "Mountain Dew". I don't have the new CD, but I do have the original Mountain Dew and now you do too.

Thanks Yanky A. for keeping this stuff going!

That's My Boy • Moshe Yess

For your Yossi. Or your Do-vid. Or your Sarala. Or your Ruchala.

From a live show that the Ivy League Torah Study Experience. Years ago.

Absolutely Yess! • The Yess Legacy

A soon-to-be-released Moshe Yess tribute project is gaining publicity. We don't have to dwell on the benefits or excitement of the project; or on the vocal and musical results. The people behind the project have an absolute feeling for Moshe Yess, which is evident in the artists participating. And though nothing and no one will come close to replicating that  music, those lyrics, that voice, the guitar-slash-bongo, and a neshama from the highest highest high, it's gotta be good.

Here's Aryeh Kunstler singing the already released and free download "Coming Home."

Here's a full Nachum Segal interview with Gershon Veroba and Yossi Zweig about the project. There are a couple of interesting tidbits in there but I'll save you the effort: Less than a month ago Shalom LeVine spent a full day in studio and conducted a full-length video interview on how Megama met and what the process was like. The last 5 minutes of the interview have Moshe himself singing Coming Home.

Go to MosheYess.ca for details and participating artist bios.

Megama • Megama

Yesterday, R' Shalom Levine, the second half of the Megama Duo, returned his soul. To him and to R' Moshe, o"h: Thank you for the music! Rock on, neshomalach!



As always, thank you Yanky for making this 1981 Minnesota concert available to the world piece-by-soulful-piece. Amazingly, a YESS TRIBUTE recording featuring Shalom is in the works and we'll bez"h be all over that!

Good Shabbos.

Pesach Blues - Journeys (Moshe Yess)

I mean, of course!

Please tune your ears to these few songs as well. Though not tagged as such, they are Pesach songs with Pesach souls.

And, MY GOD! Let. Us. Be. Free.

Happy Pesach, friends!

The Anger Song - Moshe Yess/Abie Rotenberg

Marvelous. Middos Machine.

HT:MN

The Angel Song - Moshe Yess

"...My house is always open," said the Mighty L-rd of Hosts, "and the teardrop of repentance is the thing I cherish most."

Yerushalaim, We're Going Home!!! - Journeys

Niggun Shabbos - Moshe Yess (Amami)

Yosef My Son - Moshe Yess

"Runnin though my head, runnin through my head." This song just kinda came to me this morning and I gave myself the chills. Brrrr. Originally posted on iMeem, so I re-post.

Wow!