Moishe Oysher and The Barry Sisters, “Halevai”
And while we’re talking sister acts, here are Claire and Myrna Barry in Yiddish and English with tenor Moishe Oysher. Like you don’t hear nowadays.
this is so fucking good guys please just listen to this thing that is so good
Kellz wrote the best music he wrote when he had that bald head the bald head is r. kelly true music signature…
This isn’t even my favorite song off of this album, but pretty much every single one is fucking great and absolutely essential. Like, I still think about “G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N” at essentially random times every once in a while, so this record has to have had at least some effect on me.
I know Richman’s pretty much disowned his early, punkier stuff in favor of the weird calypso-influenced twee acoustic rock he’s been doing for the last few decades—which might be the only cutesy stuff like that that I really, really listen to—but man do all the early Modern Lovers songs still smoke. He’s one of those guys I just hope keeps living forever, writing songs about Vermeer and chewing gum and barely aging.
Exactly
Tomorrow is my turn
No more doubts no more fears
Tomorrow is my turn to receive without giving
To make life worth living
Now its my life Im living
Wow this is so good
(via justlikethistrain)
The Paul Taylor Dance Company performs ‘Bei Mir Bistu Shein’, sung by the Andrews Sister. This is part of Paul Taylor’s work, ‘Company B.’ Aren’t those outfits adorable? And there’s a bit of a sapphic vibe right at the very beginning of the dance, too.
tzilahjewishcultureandhistory:
Leo Fuld - Doina (1995)
‘Krekhts or krekhtsn (Yiddish for “sobs”) are kind of dreydlekh (ornamentation) in klezmer music, especially on the violin. In an article about Jewish music in Romania, Bob Cohen of Di Naye Kapelye describes krekhts as “a sort of weeping or hiccoughing combination of backwards slide and flick of the little finger high above the base note, while the bow does, well, something - which aptly imitates Jewish liturgical singing style.” He also noted that the only other place he has heard this particular ornamentation is in Turkish music on the violin.’
after my 12 hr shift at about 10pm i clocked out of work and was met by this voicemail my friend alex left for me and it made my whole day good
seriously
i literally don’t know what to do
