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The Maccabeats are best known for their Jewish holiday songs. [1] These cover and parody contemporary hits while adding original lyrics written by group members. [15] [16] The lyrics are often educational, recounting the history of the holiday, mentioning pertinent symbols and customs, and using Hebrew phrases known to Jewish celebrants. [3] [8 ...
An early influence on Orthodox pop was the 1971 album Or Chodosh, the debut of an eponymous group created by Sh'or Yoshuv roommates Rabbi Shmuel Brazil, who would later create the group Regesh, and Yossi Toiv, later known as Country Yossi; the group performed at Brooklyn College with David Werdyger's son, the young Mordechai Ben David, opening for them.
The lyrics of these songs are generally written in English with some Hebrew or Yiddish phrases. Country Yossi, Abie Rotenberg, Uncle Moishy, Shmuel Kunda, and Lipa Schmeltzer are examples of Orthodox Jewish musicians/entertainers whose music teach children Jewish traditions. Parallel performers exist in Israel with the lyric in Hebrew or Yiddish.
In existence from 1975 to 1983, the band infused rock and bluegrass music with Jewish lyrics, creating a style of music it called "Chassidic rock" [1] or "Country and Eastern". [2] [3] The band had an international following, having become famous after winning three Israel Chassidic Festivals, in 1977, 1978, and 1980 and produced many hit songs.
Rogers Park perform folk, pop, and rock music with Jewish-themed lyrics in Hebrew and English. Their influences include Levi Robin, Matisyahu, Alex Clare, Moshav Band, The Rabbis' Sons, Diaspora Yeshiva Band, and Simon & Garfunkel, and they have covered songs by the Beatles, Leonard Cohen, and Shlomo Carlebach.
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The 15-year-old performance of the song "Yerushalayim" (which translates to "Jerusalem of Gold") had been viewed on TikTok more than 7 million times.
Moshav is known for an eclectic Jewish rock style that draws from alternative rock, folk rock, classic rock, pop rock, reggae, funk, country, bluegrass, jam band, nigunim, and Middle Eastern music, with lyrics in Hebrew and English.