Yiddish Curiosities: a library of wonderful but forgotten Yiddish songs from the late 1920s and after (includes Polish Jewish Cabaret). Have a listen!

I'm really happy that our cd is now available for download: Cabaret Warsaw digital
download. (Click the link to listen to any or all of the cuts for free).

Here are the songs we recorded (all available to be previewed on the site above):

1. Ja bez przerwy smieje sie: I just keep laughing (Szer-Schlechter) 1:52
2. Nu, a daygeh: What, is that my problem? (Burstein) 1:56
3. Bo to sie zwykle tak zaczyna: That's how it always starts (Ferszko-Front-Schlechter) 4:33
4. Yosl un Sore-Dvoshe: The sunflower seed tango (Gordon-Broydo) 3:17
5. Madame Loulou (Waldau-Tom) 3:44
6. Vaser: Water (Petersburski) 3:15
7. Stara Piosenka: Old song (Benatzy-Tuwim) 4:07
8. Nisim, nisim: Miracles, miracles (Broderson-Kon) 2:27
9. Opium (Gold-Wast) 3:42
10. Vokh Tyokh Tyokh (Lebedeff) 2:32
11. An eytsele tsum vaser-treger: Advice for the water-carrier (Broderson-Kon) 2:32
12. Upic sie warto: Only boozing is worth it (Asanowicz-Hemar) 2:49
13. Varshe: Warsaw (Rumshinsky-Perlmutter) 2:20
14. Pokoik na Hozej: Quiet on Hoze street (Daniowski -Tuwim) 2:28
15. Der Kashtenboym: The chestnut tree (Folman-Perlov) 2:59
16. Rebeka (Biaostocki-Wast) 3:41
17. Der Dales: Mr. Poverty, Nikodem (Olshanetsky-Starski-Jacobs) 2:52
18. Beser in troym tsurik: Better go back in the dream (Shayevitsh) 2:59
19. To Ostatnia Niedziela: The Last Sunday (Petersburski-Friedwald) 4:17
20. Sex Appeal (Gorska-Wars-Starski-Korn-Teuer) 2:33

I'm planning to do features on these songs, one by one, over the coming weeks. Meanwhile, hope you'll take a minute to go over and listen!