Various - Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World - Yiddisher Jazz in London's East End 19

(LP) Unglaubliche Zusammenstellung von Jiddischer Jazz- und Swingmusik aus dem London der 1920er-1950er Jahre, von BBC-Dokumentarfilmpreisträger Alan Dein.



A vibrant soundtrack to the Cockney Jewish experience, when the swinging hot dance bands were still all the rage, and the Yiddish language was spoken on the streets of Whitechapel. Feast on long forgotten 78 rpm discs that have only recently been unearthed, starring a host of recording artists united for the first time on chai fidelity’ vinyl, CD and now also for worldwide digital distribution on play loud! productions.

Hear the legendary dance band figures of the era like Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra, and Lew Stone and his Monseigneur Band, to the relatively unknown Jewish speciality acts like the Johnny Franks and his Kosher Ragtimers, and Rita Marlowe, the siren of the Yiddish song. And just like the old time Yiddish Theatre where the audience were left with both a smile on their face and a tear in their eye, we can delight in the cheeky street patter of the incomparable slapstick drummer Max Bacon rejoicing in the East Enders love affair with Beigels’.


Tracks:
1. Max Bacon - Beigels (1935) 2:58
2. Johnny Franks and his Kosher Ragtimers - Mahzel (1951) 2:40
3. Ambrose & his Orchestra - Selection of Hebrew Dances No. 1 (1934) 3:08
4. Johnny Franks and his Kosher Ragtimers - Wilhemina (1951) 3:02
5. Lew Stone and The Monseigneur Band - A Letter to my Mother (1933) 3:07
6. Baker and Willie with Orchestra - A Day in The Lane (1951) 2:33
7. Stanley Laudan - Yiddisher Samba (1956) 1:37
8. Johnny Franks and his Kosher Ragtimers - Tzena Tzena Tzena (1950) 2:28
9. Mendel and his Mishpoche Band - A Kosher Fox Trot Medley (Petticoat Lane) Part 1 (1929) 2:55
10. Stanley Laudan - Rock’n’Roll Kozatsky (1956) 1:50
11. Maurice Winnick and his Sweet Music - Bei Mir Bist du Schoen (1937) 2:46
12. The Plaza Band - Petticoat Lane (1929) 3:00
13. Rita Marlowe - Why Be Angry Sweetheart (1949) 2:48
14. Oscar Grasso and his Intimate Music - Return To Me (1948) 3:13
15. Leo Fuld - Hebrew Chant (1949) 2:51
16. Chaim Towber with Johnny Franks Orchestra - Whitechapel (1951) 2:59
17. Chaim Towber with Johnny Franks Orchestra - Festival Of Britain (1951) 2:57
18. Jews’ Temporary Shelter 75th Anniversary Appeal, flexidisc (1960) 3:59