Name That Tune!

Country Boy – Journeys 4

oh good, i was starting to wonder if I had composed the song…..nobody but me seemed to know it 😉

SIDI: That should be “wracked by pain.” (It’s unGoogleable either way.)

I don’t think I know it, but is it about Rav Eliezer Silver going into convents (etc?) after the War and identifying the Jewish children by saying “Shema Yisrael” ?

In memory of Arnold Fine:

In the year, taf-taf-lamed-tes

There’ll be a daily paper called the Jewish Press

For fifty dollars you can check it out, folks

To see if Arnold Fine has run out of jokes (whoa-oo-whoa)

This is an old song – I recently remembered that this year was Taf-shin-ayin-gimmel! Boro Park survived (of course).

(Fortunately for him, there were no predictions in the song for this year. When 5784 rolls around, watch the esrog prices! But the prediction for 5796 is simply impossible [a shteeble every 15 feet].)

That’s right. By the way, the song he parodied (“In the Year 2525”, by Zager and Evans) was the only hit for the group, and its bleak-sci-fi-future speculation was #1 when the USA put a man on the moon.

I’m afraid you’ve crossed into Googleable territory, SIDI !

I Googled it (that’s how we think nowadays, especially if we’re ignorant and apathetic about a lot of Jewish music) and I came up with YBC’s “In a Song,” which isn’t a perfect match, so it must be the original song. Is the answer a live YBC medley?

(I also found out that there is a Jewish music wiki on Wikia.)

Why can’t I answer it?

Yes Googlex, it is YBC’s “In a Song” . Eli Gerstner took this song and changed around words for RCCS and he and a child soloist sang it (using originally recorded music and choir from the original song.) If you want to find it, search “Eli Gerstner RCCS”.

Ha ha! What ever you want. But the real Q is, did I?

1st song: Sorry, don’t know!

2nd song:

Do you have a gemara

A Gemara Bava Metzia

My Leibele is starting[?…]

[?…] joy

My gemarakup, my boy!

The song tells the story of a man and his wife who both (independently) use the money they had saved for something significant to them to buy a Gemara for their son who is starting to learn it (resulting in ownership of two Gemaras – one hopes they were returnable). Though this of course bears a resemblance to O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi,” if I remember correctly, the incident actually took place. For all that, I don’t know the name of the song or who recorded it. Someone around here should, though.

3rd song:

“Hu Yivarech” – Dov Hoschander

I didn’t know it, but I usually Google the lyric even though you’re not supposed to be able to (because I said so!).

(Perhaps your filter doesn’t allow Google or similar sites?)

By the way, shouldn’t your name be “cozimajew” ?

Oh thanks sooo much!! Yes I tried googling, maybe you’re right. Yes I am a Jew. However, my name is not just random, I wanted it to say I’m Jewish specifically, coz I go to a school with many types of girls – chassidish, litvish, sefardi etc. When we were younger everybody used to ask each other, “Are you lebavitch/litvish/sefardi etc.?” I didn’t know, so when I got home, I asked my parents what type we are. They said, “Nothing. We aren’t litvish, we aren’t chassidish, we aren’t sefardi etc. We’re Jewish.” So that was my answer to the question from then on. I am proud to be just plain Jewish 🙂

BTW, on the album “There’s A Place In My Mind” (featuring Avrumi Flam with guest singers Yehuda! and Dov Levine) there is a song entitled “Be Proud That You’re A Jew”!

I tell people I’m a Chossid of Hashem!

Well then I shouldn’t have a problem discussing my username in this thread…

And you could be a chossid without being Chassidish. A chossid is someone who goes lifnim meshuras hadin. ‘Chassidish’ is a loosely distributed term, generally used as a category of people wearing round fur hats and long satin outercoats and black or white socks, sometimes boots too.

Back to the songs… can you guess this one: …”futer in himmel enfert farvus?” Used to be my favorite.

I think the song is entitled “I’m so proud”

Country Yossi’s got a song called “I’m Proud to Be a Part of Am Yisroel” (on the album Ride Again!), if we’re making a game of naming such songs.

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Chossid has three meanings:

1. The original – “Haoseh chessed im kono.”

2. A Jew of the chassidic persuasion.

3. Someone with a certain relationship with a rebbe (this meaning is derived, of course, from the emphasis Chassidic teachings put on such a relationship).

You can use the third meaning in reference to Hashem (presumably as a joke) whether you’re chassidish or not. The female form of the word is “chassidah.”

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Personal discussions about things that come up in threads (like discussing someone’s username) is an issue that may not have a solution other than just letting people do it.

I plan on posting about this in the “For PAA and Randomex…” thread one of these days.

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Males and females “talking” to each other on the CR is another issue I plan to address. No starting such a thread before I do, please, and I copyright the thread title

“Males and females on and of the CR [not a typo].”

CozImJewish:

I figured out why the Dov Hoschander song didn’t show up when you searched for it. 🙂

When using Google (and most search engines), there is a difference between, for example, searching for

[her son is serving on the line] and searching for

[“her son is serving on the line”]. A search with quotation marks around some words will find only pages that have those words in that order.

(If it finds no results for the exact phrase, it will show results for the same search without quotes and tell you so).

This is obviously a more precise and powerful way to search, though it can be a stumbling block if you’re misremembering something even slightly.

Also (although it wouldn’t have mattered in this case), when trying to find a song by searching for some of its words, it’s usually best to put in the word [lyrics] in addition to the actual lyrics, and, if you don’t see what you’re looking for on the first page, to check at least the second page as well, especially if it’s something obscure like a Jewish song.

CozImJewish:

The first song on Country Yossi’s first album is “Cause I’m a Jew.” Given your love of music, I was joking that you should’ve had the name that would mean the same thing and reference a song.

I guess you’re too young to have gotten the

joke – the album came out in 1983.

If you like Jewish music, though, you should definitely get your hands on all six albums by “Country Yossi and The Shteeble-Hoppers” and These I Remember, which consists of 8 songs by his old group The Or Chodosh and 2 new ones.

NOTICE: The majority of the “Shteeble-Hoppers” songs are parodies of non-Jewish songs. (These I Remember has no parodies.)

No, before the war my grandmother (and I think also my grandfather) was chassidish (don’t ask which chassidus, wouldn’t have a clue.) I think my other grandparents were litvish. However, after the war, my grandmother let go of chassidus, I guess, and we don’t hold anything. Also, I am I guess what people who don’t know better would call “litvish” but we aren’t really, because we still keep minhagim that my grandparents kept in hungary, e.g. mitzvah tanz, no gebrokts (not sure if that’s chassidish or not, but most litvish people I know eat gebrokts on pesach).

SIDI:

0: Bullet points. WANT! Please give me the code for them and any other non-alphanumeric symbols you know. Pretty please?

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The Joke thread is not really meant for discussions of any type. By having a lengthy conversation it ruins the whole point of that thread.

Surely you can discuss the jokes? We were arguing, which might be better done elsewhere,but where?

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2: That kind of thread may be worth re-doing for the fresh perspectives and/or knowledge the current community has to offer.

3: Check again. It’s there now, 2 posts above yours.

Modified old rejected post:

Thinking of the words “confusion in their eyes,” I remembered “The Twilight in Your Eyes”, but that’s

all (kol isha warning).

Actually, it seems the phrase isn’t uncommon as a lyric.

Hi, PAA! Listen, I’d thought it possible to read all posts starting from the time one becomes active, and I still do, but the time it would take, and certainly the time it would take to read and respond as thoroughly as I (possibly pathologically) do…

It’s just not practical, and wouldn’t be worth it even if it was.

Oh, that thread? Yeah, yeah, whenever I get around to it, assuming I don’t consider it to old to bump by then… Okay, it should be sooner than that – it’s just my current tiredness speaking…

Randomex – question: are you very particular about punctuation by any chance? You keep capitalizing my username 🙂 just write cozimjewish it makes your life easier 🙂

Also, Randomex, (you are going to regret ever helping me in the first place, since now I direct all my questions to you :P)how do you get a subtitle? And when it says “Inactive” or “blocked” is that a joke or serious?

pretty much 🙂