TTT :: Mishefa • Solid Gold II

It is a challenge to select a TTT and stand by it. There are many songs that are okay and just not excellent; others are so off the beatin' path that it's unfair to bring them in just to beat them down. And sometimes you remember a song on a mainstream and otherwise successful musical experiment that sounds like this. And as you begin uploading, it plays. And as it plays you realize: Wow. This is actually terrible! Fantastic!

Avi Fishoff, the man behind the Solid Gold series

I think it is Gideon Levine and Yeedle singing.

Thank You! • Yeedle

Eliyohu Hanavi • Yeedle

Having mentioned Yeedle yesterday, I just went ahead and made it a Yeedle day.

Here's one gem I heard in which MBD harmonails it note after note (starting with "Im moshiach ben Dovid" at 1:59). It is not a particularly clean arrangement, but his "HEE-nei anoichi sholei'ach lochem..." at 2:17. Pssssshhhh! And catch the appropriateness of "...v'heishiv lev avos al bonim v'lev bonim al avosom."



Also speaking on Yeedle, he released an all new yesterday. On the album cover, he looks like a funky doctor. On the free track provided by Jewish Music Report, he sounds like he may have over-prescribed special effects and overdosed on improvisation. But it is weirdly interesting to listen to and I'm interested in hearing more.

Adon Olam • Ken Burgess (and Friends)

To gather, to-gether,
for-ever in Is-ra-el...

Bairach Hashem - Yeedle

ויהיו אהובים למעלה, ונחמדים למטה. That will be all.

Min Hameitzar - Yeedle (MBD)

Long time no post! Happy Chodesh.

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...

Min Hameitzar - Yeedle/MBD

Composed and originally performed by MBD for "Live in Brooklyn College" in the early 1900s. Really beautiful flute intro. The King arrives at 2:45.

A lichtigen, freilechen Choidesh Adar to all the staff and stalkers of ShirShelYom.