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My Yiddishe Momme (Yiddish: א יידישע מאמע) is a song written by Jack Yellen (words and music) and Lew Pollack (music), [1] first recorded by Willie Howard, and made famous in vaudeville by Belle Baker and by Sophie Tucker, and later by the Barry Sisters. Tucker began singing My Yiddishe Momme in 1925, after the death of her own ...
Jack Yellen wrote the lyrics to Ain't She Sweet and Happy Days Are Here Again. He also wrote the words and music for the popular song My Yiddishe Momme (Yiddish: א יידישע מאמע). Ben Bornstein, prior to the music publishing company, was with Harry Von Tilzer Co., a company created by composer, lyricist, and music publisher Harry Von ...
The fourth stanza introduces tragic pathos into the song: "When, children, you will grow older / You will understand / How many tears lie in these letters / And how much crying." [ 3 ] The lyrics hint at the traditional Yiddish saying that "The history of the Jews is written in tears".
Jack Selig Yellen (Jacek Jeleń; July 6, 1892 – April 17, 1991) [1] was an American lyricist and screenwriter.He is best remembered for writing the lyrics to the songs "Happy Days Are Here Again", [2] which was used by Franklin Roosevelt as the theme song for his successful 1932 presidential campaign, and "Ain't She Sweet", a Tin Pan Alley standard.
Jewish partisans' anthem in the Jewish partisans' memorial in Giv'ataym, Israel Jewish partisans' anthem in the Jewish partisans' memorial in Bat-Yam "Zog nit keyn mol" (Never Say; Yiddish: זאָג ניט קיין מאָל, [zɔg nit kɛjn mɔl]) sometimes "Zog nit keynmol" or "Partizaner lid" [Partisan Song]) is a Yiddish song considered one of the chief anthems of Holocaust survivors and is ...
Lazarus 'Leo' Fuld (Yiddish: לעאָ פֿולד; Rotterdam, October 29, 1912 – Amsterdam, June 10, 1997) was a Dutch singer who specialised in Yiddish songs. Possessing an instantaneously recognizable voice, Fuld recorded throughout Europe and the Americas in many languages, including Yiddish, English, German, French, Hebrew and Dutch. His ...
Francis, who had grown up in an Italian-Jewish neighborhood in Newark, spoke Yiddish fluently and was familiar with songs in Hebrew, which prompted her to record the songs either entirely in Yiddish or Hebrew or bilingually, with a few lines sung in English. [3] [4]
My Yiddishe Momme: Neil Sedaka at Chequers is a 1966 Australian compilation album containing the works of American pop singer Neil Sedaka.Eight of the songs on this album had been previously released earlier in Sedaka's career, but it included four new recordings produced in RCA's Australian studios in Sydney, Australia, following a concert Sedaka had given at Sydney's famous Chequers nightclub.