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| AFFION CROCKETT "LOCKIN'" |
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NOT JUST A COMEDIAN, FOLKS.... I GETS MY DANCE
ON!
NUFF RESPECT TO GREG CAMPBELLOCK JR., DON
CAMPBELLOCK, FRED "PENGUIN" BERRY, FLUKIE LUKE,
TONY GO-GO, SLIM THE ROBOT, SHABBA DOO, TONI
BASIL, SCOOBY DOO, THE ORIGINAL SKEETER RABBIT,
AND ALL WHO CONTINUE THE LOCKING LEGACY.
Tags : LOCKERS GROOVALOOS FUNKY LOCKING AFFION CROCKETT GREG CAMPBELLOCK |
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Affichage : 61838
Durée : 96 s |
| Mickey Katz sings "Duvid Crockett" |
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A great jewish yiddish entertainer.
Biography
"Mickey Katz (June 15, 1909 - April 30, 1985) was
a U.S. Jewish comedian who received his first
moments of fame in the 1940s as a member of Spike
Jones and His City Slickers where he was most
famous for his "glugging" vocal sound effects on
tunes like "Cocktails for Two" and others. He
later went on to perform his own parodic musical
review and record highly popular "ethnic" comedy
albums on the Capitol label where he would perform
English-Yiddish parody songs. He was also
recognized as a master of Klezmer style clarinet
and had several hits during his long career.
Though Katz sang primarily in Yiddish, he is often
as recognized as one of the godfathers of American
song parody which would later be advanced by the
likes of Allan Sherman and, in the 1980s, Weird Al
Yankovic.
Katz and his group can be seen in the movie
Thoroughly Modern Millie accompanying Julie
Andrews as she sings a Yiddish song at a Jewish
wedding.
Katz is the father of Broadway legend Joel Grey
and a grandfather of the actress Jennifer Grey. In
the early 1980s he told the story of his life in a
biography called Papa Play for Me.
Jazz musician Don Byron recorded a tribute to
Mickey Katz in 1993 entitled Don Byron Plays The
Music of Mickey Katz."
source: wikipedia
"Mickey Katz
Born 1909, Cleveland, Ohio
Died 1985
Mickey Katz's unique blend of Spike Jones, klezmer
music, and Borscht Belt humor proved a successful
formula for much of the space age pop era.
Studying the clarinet as a child, Katz began a
proficient performer and was playing with local
bands in his teens. He started introducing comic
routines into his act and attracted the attention
of Spike Jones, who hired him into his City
Slickers band in 1946. Katz can be heard on a
number of classic Spike Jones recordings, most
notably making the astounding poly-glottal
"glug-glug-glugs" on Jones' version of "Hawaiian
War Chant".
Katz eventually mentioned to Jones' RCA producers
that he had been working on his own parody tunes,
combining popular tunes with Yiddish lyrics and
instrumentation. RCA decided to record Katz and
released his first single, "Haim Afn Range" backed
with "Yiddish Square Dance." It proved a surprise
hit, selling over 30,000 copies in one month.
Like Jones, part of Katz' success was due to the
very high quality of musicians he used. Fellow
City Slicker Mannie Klein (later replaced by the
great Ziggy Elman) played trumpet, the young Si
Zentner played trombone, and Sam Weiss played
drums, and Nat Farber, a studio orchestrator,
provided the arrangements.
The popularity of his RCA singles led Katz to
organize a road show, which he called "The Borscht
Capades." Among the cast was Katz' own son, who
later became famous as Joel Grey. Ironically, one
place the show never appeared was the Borscht Belt
itself.
Katz switched to Capitol Records in the early
1950s, and remained with the label until he
retired in the late 1960s. Most of his material
remained the same throughout his albums--Yiddish
interpretations of American tunes, rendered in
Katz' heavily-inflected comic Jewish accent
("ecch-sent"). But he did play it straight for the
album, Mickey Katz Plays Music for Weddings,
paying homage to the klezmer music he heard as a
child. He also recorded one straight comedy album,
Mickey Katz at the U.N., and The Katz Pajamas, a
collection of fairy tales told in fractured
Yiddish.
Katz reprised the "Borschtcapades" idea in the
mid-1960s with a Broadway revue titled, "Hello,
Solly," but the show was short-lived. He published
an autobiography, Papa Play for Me in 1977. In the
early 1990s, black clarinetist Don Byron, who had
learned klezmer music as a member of the Klezmer
Conservatory in the mid-1980s, paid tribute to
Katz's work by recording the well-received Music
of Mickey Katz.
For more information on Mickey Katz, check out
Haim Afn Range: The Mickey Katz Haim Page.
Recordings
Borscht, RCA Victor LPM 3193
The Family Danced: American-Yiddish Folk Music and
Dances, Capitol H 457
Mickey Katz and his Orchestra, Capitol T 298
Mish-Mosh, Capitol T 799
Katz Puts on the Dog, Capitol T 934
Mickey Katz Plays Music for Weddings, Bar
Mitzvahs, and Funerals, Capitol T 1021
The Most Mishige, Capitol T 1102
The Katz Pajamas, Capitol W 1257
Comin' Round the Katzkills, Capitol W 1304
The Borscht Jester, ST 1445
Katz at the U.N., Capitol ST 1603
Sing-Along with Mickele, Capitol ST 1744
Fiddler on the Roof, Capitol ST 2387
Hello, Solly, Capitol SW 2731
The Hits of Mickey Katz, Capitol Starline T 298"
Yiddish humorous version of THE BALLAD OF
DAVY CROCKETT.
שיעור יידיש
Tags : Mickey Katz ייִדיש Joel Grey Jennifer Idish idishe jiddisch yiddish jewish klezmer |
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Durée : 194 s |
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