Sex Appeal! Sung (then) by Benzion Witler and Adam Aston - now by Mappamundi!
Another song which was popular both in Polish and in Yiddish - in this video, doing the song for the first time, we were nervous and we rushed a bit.
Stefania Gorska and Henryk Wars wrote the music. The Polish lyric is by Ludwik Starski; the Yiddish lyric is by Igor S. Korn-Teurer, more famous for serious Holocaust poetry.
I'm updating this post because I was asked for the words and translation for the Yiddish version of Sex Appeal and you can get them too:
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You can see the originals here:
Eugeniusz Bodo singing "Sex appeal" in drag and here's the Yiddish: Menasze Oppenheim singing "Sex Appeal" in 1938.
Labels: battle between the sexes, humor & satire, klezmer, modernity
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