Researching Yiddish penny songs (tenement song broadsides of theater and variety show songs, 1895-1925)
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Since I ran out of Penny Songs, I thought I'd skim the Library of Congress Yiddish sheet music collection, and I started with a few written by Solomon Small (formerly Solomon Smulewitz).
This one, as you see from the title, is from the show "Forbidden Fruit" (Farbotene Frukht) and was sung by Bessie Thomashefsky and "Master Lubritzky" who must have been some kid actor. It obviously was meant for an orchestra accompaniment but all you get is me in my living room.
by melinama @ 9:11 AM
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This blog follows my research on a collection of 200 song sheets found at Hebrew Union College as "Penny Songs by Morris Rund and others." See also:
Yiddish Ragtime
Yiddish songs of the Gaslight Era: lead sheets with chords, transliterations, translations, and images from the original music. Click images to see the books!
Yiddish Songs of the Gaslight Era Volume 1
The American Yiddish Penny Songs book: facsimiles of the original Yiddish broadsides as sold on the streets of New York by Jewish peddlers.
Ikh bin busy
Opgenarte velt
Vos hot men tsu mir?
Der East Side fun amol
My songbook of rare Yiddish theater music popular in interwar Warsaw Poland: click for more information
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