Katz Pajamas Mickey Katz
Performer
1. Yoshke And The Beanstalk
2. Little Red Rosenberg
3. Fancy Herringer
4. Chinderella
5. Wild Bill Hickop
6. Bagel Lox And The Tree Bears
7. Hansel And Gensel
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Recordings
Mickey Katz the star of Broadway's Borshtcapades
Performer
1. Yiddish Mule Train
2. Bagel Call Rag
3. The Baby, The Bubbe and You
4. Dos Geshray Fun Der Vilde Katshke
5. Come On A House
6. Borsht Riders In The Sky
7. She'll Be Coming ' Round Di Katzkills
8. Sound Off (Duckworth Chant)
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Recordings
Katz Puts on the Dog
Performer
1. Murietta Hot Springs
2. Shlepin' My Baby Back Home
3. Sin
4. Feet Up, Pat Him On The Pipik
5. Peysekh In Portugal
6. Moscovitz Ramble
7. Sweet And Gentle
8. Shvitsberg, Pennsylvania
9. Nature Bokher
10. You're A Doity Dog
11. Hey! Jealous Lover
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Recordings
Mish Mosh Mickey Katz
Performer
1. A Shmo Is A Shmo
2. You Belong To Me
3. Ikh Der Trupadur
4. I'm A Shlemiel Of Fortune
5. That Pickle In The Window
6. Patcha-Me
7. That's Morris
8. Roiselle From Texas
9. Sixteen Tons
10. Don't Let The Shmalts
11. Tweedle Dee
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Recordings
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.