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I Have a Little Dreidel
According to various sources, it was written in 1927 by a man named Samuel E. Goldfarb. More info here from his son: https://jewishamericansongster.com/my-fathers-songs/
I’ve now added this work as best I can along with a couple of covers
I’ve now added this work as best I can along with a couple of covers
Great nicely done 
According to various sources, it was written in 1927 by a man named Samuel E. Goldfarb. More info here from his son: https://jewishamericansongster.com/my-fathers-songs/
And also according to that same source it was also recorded in that same year 1927.
While working for the Bureau, Samuel E. Goldfarb collaborated with a brilliant lyricist and playwright, Samuel Schlomo Grossman (1893-1930). Born a rabbi’s son in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Grossman had been educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Grossman was a talented writer with a theatrical bent, who was fluent in Hebrew, Yiddish and English, and he was one of the organizers and first general manager of Maurice Schwartz’s renowned Yiddish Art Theatre on Second Avenue. He’d turned out a stream of Jewish plays and operas as well as songs. Together the two Sams wrote an operetta, The Jews in Egypt, as well as many children’s songs. It was Grossman who penned the words to the Dreidel song, which was first recorded in 1927 with Goldfarb the composer at the piano and Arthur Fields, one of the most popular singers of the day, as vocalist.
Samuel E. Goldfarb's son Myron wrote:
A few years ago I came across an old box of memorabilia in my basement. Along with many of my father’s letters, it held copies of his artistic works from the 19-teens and 20s that long ago passed into obscurity. Booklets containing liturgical songs, children’s Bible songs, holiday songs and songs about the Holy Land, and several extremely rare 78-rpm gramophone disc recordings that emerged slightly cracked from their tattered paper jackets, the scratchy sounds of which took me back to another world and time. Rediscovering these lost objects rekindled vivid memories from more than 85 years ago.
My guess is that 1927 recording of the Dreidel Song was recorded for educational purposes only. for the Jewish Home Institute.
Like the one here:
SEE PAGE 5 of the next link https://jewishamericansongster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Dreidel-I-Shall-Pl…
Here's an MP3 of that 1927 recording of the Dreidel Song.
https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kplu/audio/2017/12/dreidel_song_1927.mp3
And more coverversions here:
https://popcultureexperiment.com/2017/12/04/the-dreidel-song-cover-songs-uncover…
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Last edit: 2021-12-23 13:43:53 UTC by jojo