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Songs from The Wall sound recording : ghetto, partisan, folk and love songs / sung by Norbert Horowitz, Rita Karin, Rochelle Horowitz

Songs from The Wall sound recording : ghetto, partisan, folk and love songs / sung by Norbert Horowitz, Rita Karin, Rochelle Horowitz
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performer
Horowitz, Norbert
Karin, Rita
Horowitz, Rochelle
playwright
Lampell, Millard 1919-1997
album cover design
Clyne, Ronald 1925-2006
Date
1961
20th century
Type
Phonograph records
Physical Description
1 phonograph record : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in
Restrictions & Rights
Restrictions on access
Local number
FW03558
Folkways 3558
Notes
Program notes, including lyrics in English and Yiddish, (12 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
This recording features performers from the Broadway play The Wall by Millard Lampell about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis.
This recording has also been known as "Songs of the Holocaust" and as "Concentration Camp Songs."
Norbert Horowitz, Rita Karin and Rochelle Horowitz: vocals.; Allan Atlas, accordion and concertina.
Track information
101. Oy, a Nacht a sheyne (Oh, What a Lovely Night)
102. Sheyn bin ich, sheyn (Pretty Am I, So Pretty)
103. Tsipele (Little Tsipele)
104. Ver der ershter vet lachn (Who Will Be the First to Laugh)
105. Shtil, di Nacht iz oysgeshternt (Silent, Starry Night)
106. Yisrolik / Norbert Horowitz, Rita Karin, Rochelle Horowitz
107. Farvos iz der Himl Geven nechtn loyter? (Why Was the Sky So Bright Yesterday?)
108. Oyf dem Zamd fun Negev (On the Sands of the Negev)
201. A Mame's Nign (A Mother's Melody)
202. The Findjan (Steaming Kettle)
203. Oy, dortn, dortn ibern Vaserl (Oh, There across the Water)
204. Frunze verde (Green Leaves)
205. Noch a Glezele Tey (Another Little Cup of Tea)
206. Idish (Yiddish)
207. Motele
Publisher number
FG 3558 Folkways Records
Repository Loc.
Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
Culture
Jews
Russians
Americans
Data Source
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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Folkways Records Collection 1948-1986
Place
Poland
Germany
Warsaw (Poland)
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