Re: [Cz-L] Bei mir bisti shein

Dear Hardy,
A french version by Isabelle Georges....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAvH88zFJP0

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2011/9/7 HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vvo3MaFcxw
>
> A Yiddish song written in America in 1932 made it.
> Written by Sholem Sekunda for a Yiddish musical
> in NY , not noticed very much.
> In 1936 the Andrews sisters picked it up and made it big.
> It sold 3 million records and wastheir first hit.
> They became world famous.
> It was most popular in Czernowitz ( not the Andrews sisters version).
> We didnt even know it came from America.
> We didnt sing it as the Andrews sister in jazz rythm.
> Just a simple Yiddish love song.
> " You may not be a great beauty but you are beautiful to me."
> ( In fact she looked like a pumpkin).
> This is what the girl or boy wanted to hear. It was a hit
> song around the globe sung in all major languages.
> Little song that made it.
> The Andrews sisters ? They kept singing" Rum and Coca Cola".
>
> Hardy
>
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