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[12] Levy then persuaded the little-known Andrews Sisters to record the song (as "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön") on November 24, 1937, [14] for a flat fee of $50 (equivalent to $1,094 in 2024). [14] The Andrews Sisters had initially attempted to record the song in Yiddish, but their Decca Records producer Jack Kapp stridently objected and insisted ...
Still, it did not stop concentration camp inmates from secretly singing it, this being most likely since the song was originally a Yiddish song "Bei Mir Bistu Shein", and had been popularized within the Jewish community before it was recorded as a more successful "cover" version by the Andrews sisters.
Sholom Secunda as a "wonder child" khazn. Sholom Secunda (Yiddish: שלום סעקונדאַ, 4 September [O.S. 23 August] 1894, Alexandria, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire – 13 June 1974, New York) was an American composer of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, best known for the tunes of "Bei Mir Bistu Shein" and "Donna Donna".
They cut their first recordings with Victor Records in the late 1930s, [4] and made a name for themselves as Yiddish jazz singers. When the Andrews Sisters' version of the Yiddish song, "Bei Mir Bistu Shein" (as "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön"), became a hit, musician and composer Sam Medoff, known professionally as Dick Manning, started his Yiddish ...
The song has also been recorded by The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra with vocalist Ruth Brown, Ruth Etting, The Andrews Sisters, Leo Watson, Sonny Rollins, Petula Clark, Mandy Patinkin, John McCormack, Richard Tauber, Franz Völker and Rudolf Schock. Pesach Burstein recorded a Yiddish version (translation by L. Wolfe Gilbert).
The Andrews Sisters also seem to have given little thought to the meaning of the lyrics. [7] According to Patty Andrews, "We had a recording date, and the song was brought to us the night before the recording date. We hardly really knew it, and when we went in we had some extra time and we just threw it in, and that was the miracle of it.
She called the song "a melody of hearts and flowers" and objected that the song does not reveal Masha's character and does not contribute to the development of the plot. According to Kadison, it was she who insisted that the song be rewritten so that it would appear naturally during the fortune-telling on the cards. And she claimed that it was ...
"Civilization", performed by Danny Kaye and the Andrews Sisters, is featured on the in-game Galaxy News Radio in the 2008 video game Fallout 3, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic, retro-futurist United States in the year 2277 in the ruins of Washington D.C. [5] The song is also included on Diamond City Radio in Fallout 4, the fifth major ...