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Music : Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah |
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List Price: $17.98Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $2.99 (17%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0857764001503
Label: Jmg / Jewish Music
Manufacturer: Jmg / Jewish Music
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Jmg / Jewish Music
Release Date: September 05, 2006
Sales Rank: 33827
Studio: Jmg / Jewish Music
Disc 1:- Honeyky Hanuka
- Happy Joyous Hanuka
- Gilad and Ziv's Sirba
- Hanuka Bell
- (Do the) Latke Flip-Flip
- Hanukah Tree
- The Many and the Few
- Groovy's Freylekhs
- Hanuka Gelt
- Spin Dreydl Spin
- Hanuka's Flame
- Hanuka Dance
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This second interpretation of Woody Guthrie's Jewish-themed lyrics by the Klezmatics--America's premiere Yiddish band--revolves around Hanukkah, and by the title, it's not surprising that most of the offerings boast a lively tone. Guthrie, the Dust Bowl balladeer, lived in post-war Brooklyn (Coney Island, to be exact), and, inspired by his mother-in-law, the Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt, wrote a newly found series of poems that focused on Jewish culture. Primarily set to music by the Klezmatics' Lorin Sklamberg and Frank London, the holiday lyrics come alive to prayerful Hasidic nigunim and playful klezmer freylekhs, as well as to Nashville-tinged country fare. The band also conjured several instrumentals to flesh out Guthrie's slight Hanukkah catalogue, though the funk-'n'-jazz '(Do the) Latke Flip-Flip' seems a mistake. Sequenced near Guthrie's 'The Many and the Few,' a somber persecution-and-renewal story song about King Cyrus's release of the Jews from their Babylonian captivity, it seems as out of place as Christmas in October. But this innovative collaboration still has the makings of a holiday classic, as appealing to children as to the parents who spawned them. --Alanna Nash
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not to My Tastes
Recall the scene in "Jaws" where Quint drags his fingernails across the chalkboard in order to grab everyone's attention in the room.
Now imagine this sound lasting for the length of a CD.
I did not find fault with Woody Guthrie's lyrics. If not for the singing and the music, I would have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Rating:  - Who Knew Woody Gutherie Wrote Hanukkah MusicI
I think that Gutherie's "HAPPY JOYOUS HANUKKAH" CD is great, especially for children. The songs are surely joyous and wonderful to listen to. My only complaint were the addition of 4 pieces ("Gilad and Ziv's Sibra", "Latke Flip-Flop", "Groovy"s Freyekhs", and "Spin Dreydl Spin") that were not written by Gutherie and made no sense for this project.
Still, I would highly recommend this CD>
Rating: - Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah
This is an unexpected pleasure. And it gives you what it says on the cover - happy joyous music.
Is there anything for pesach?
Rating:  - Joyous and hip
Woody Guthrie...for Hanukkah. A gift every joyous Jewish family will love. And Wonder Wheel by the Klezmatics was nominated for a Grammy... and may actually win it (Grammy's are next week). Woody may be gone, but the Klezmatics have made his fun, sweet spirit come to life... with a Jewish edge.
Great!
Rating: - An excellent departure
I wasn't certain what to expect from this odd collaboration, but it is one of the Klezmatics' best works! They seem to have taken some poems on the topic of Chanukah that were written by Woody Guthrie, who was himself not Jewish but whose wife was Jewish. They've composed music around the poetry and recorded it here.
The music is terrific -- our family loves it. The two kids play this CD over and over, yet the two parents still like it (!), which by itself makes the disc an extaordinary ... Read More
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