Weekends With The Wizard playlist for 04/14/2010

ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
Neil DiamondDesiréeI'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight(1977)
Gertrude SteinIf I Told Him: A Completed Portrait Of PicassoGertrude Stein Reads(1956)
Michel RosenbergGetzel At A Baseball Game[78 single][rec. ca 1947]
Groucho Marx, Al Jolson and Oscar Levant'A Quiz For Jolson'[excerpt from Kraft Music Hall radio programme][broadcast live 18th November 1948]
Groucho Marx, Al Jolson and Oscar Levant'A Laundry For Jolson'[excerpt from Kraft Music Hall radio programme][broadcast live 26th May 1949]
Woody Allen[complete Side 1 of live stand-up comedy album]Woody Allen(1964)
George GershwinRhapsody In Blue[complete concerto for piano and orchestra](1922)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)Fourth [later Third] Movement: Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppenSymphony No 1 ('Titan')(1888)
Philip Glass (music), Samuel M Johnson (words and speaker)Knee Play 5Einstein On The Beach(1976)
Mark KnopflerGoing Home: Theme Of The Local HeroLocal Hero [soundtrack to the film by Bill Forsyth](1983)
Osvaldo Golijov; David Krakauer (clr.), Alicia Svigals (vln.), Martha Mooke (elec. vla.), Pablo Aslan (cb.)RocketekyaKlezmer Concertos And Encores(1998)
Ben Folds Five with members of The Klezmatics (Alicia Svigals [vln.], Matt Darriau [clr.], Frank London [tpt.])Steven's Last Night In TownWhatever And Ever Amen(1997)
Simon And GarfunkelA Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme(1966)
Simon And GarfunkelAmericaBookends(1968)
Billy JoelMy Life52nd Street(1978)
Billy JoelLauraThe Nylon Curtain(1982)
Billy JoelAll For LeynaGlass Houses(1980)
Billy JoelRoot Beer RagStreetlife Serenade(1974)
Billy JoelThe Mexican ConnectionStreetlife Serenade(1974)
Lou ReedA GiftConey Island Baby(1975)
The Modern LoversDodge Veg-O-MaticRock 'N' Roll With The Modern Lovers(1977)
Neil SedakaLonely Night (Angel Face)[live performance on Saturday Night Live][24th January 1976]
Danny Kaye and Jane WymanNo Two PeopleHans Christian Andersen: Selections From The Samuel Goldwyn Technicolour Production(1952)
'London's Only Jewish Theatre''Lipschitz, Take The Whole Delivery Back!'[from Arnold L Miller's film London In The Raw](1964)
Al Jolson; William Demarest, Ludwig DonathThe Spaniard Who Blighted My Life[from Alfred E Green's film The Jolson Story](1946)
Jerry LewisBack In Your Own Back YardJust Sings!(ca late 1950s)
Al Jolson; Brunswick Orchestra, dir. Victor Young; trad., arr. A W BinderA Chazend'l Ohf Shabbes [A Cantor On The Sabbath][Brunswick 78][rec. 20th December 1932]
Maurice BurkhardtAt The Yiddish Wedding Jubilee[Edison Blue Amberol cylinder 2615](1915)
Ada Jones and Len SpencerBecky And Izzy[Edison Gold Moulded Record 9572](1907)
Dave MartinGoldberg's Automobile Troubles[Edison Blue Amberol cylinder 3083/Edison Record 5004](1917)
Edward MeekerI'm A Yiddish Cowboy[Edison Gold Moulded Record 9984](1908)
Monroe SilverPittsburgh, PA[Edison Blue Amberol cylinder 4004/Edison Record 7132](1920)
Edward MeekerThat's Yiddisha Love[Edison Amberol cylinder 597](1910)
Maurice BurkhardtThe Yiddisha Professor[Edison Blue Amberol cylinder 1643](1913)
Naftule BrandweisDer Heisser [Tartar Dance][78 single][rec. 17th July 1924]
Nellie CasmanNellie, Thu Es Noch Amol [Nellie, Do it Again][78 single][rec. September 1925]
Peisachke BursteinYidden, Loift Tzum Rebbin [Jews, Run To The Rabbi][78 single][rec. May 1929]
Gus GoldsteinYe Ch'ob Nit Kein Panenis [Yes, We Have No Bananas!][78 single][rec. 1923]
Feder SistersVus Zull Men Zingen? [What Shall We Sing?][78 single][rec. ca 1950]
Cantor Pierre PinchikRozo Deshabbos [Mystery Of The Sabbath], Part 1[78 single][rec. 25th June 1928]
Cantor Pierre PinchikRozo Deshabbos [Mystery Of The Sabbath], Part 2[78 single][rec. 25th June 1928]
Bagelman Sisters and Seymour RechtzeitDer Alter Zigeuner [The Old Gypsy][78 single][rec. 20th June 1940]
Simon Paskal; Irving Berlin (cmp.)Alle Menshen Thuen Dos [Everybody's Doing It][78 single][rec. 25th April 1912]
Joe HaymanCohen On The Telephone[78 single][rec. July 1912]
Morris GoldsteinLenine And Trotsky[78 single][rec. April 1923]
Yenkovitz And GoldbergAz Du Furst Avek [As You Go Away][78 single][rec. 5th April 1913]
Moishe Oysher and Florence WeissChasidic In America[78 single][rec. 8th September 1938]
Goldie And The Malavsky FamilyTsur Israel [Rock Of Israel][78 single][rec. ca 1960s]
Joseph Cohen [Aaron Lebedeff]Der Trombenik [The Blowhard][78 single][rec. 1928]
The FallGarden[John Peel Session][rec. 21st March 1983]
Billy JoelThrough The Long NightGlass Houses(1980)

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