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Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt “Sings Cantorial Favorites” Volume 4. I got this record at a record store in Chicago. It obviously came from the collection of an interesting guy and it was one of many lps that I found around the store that had these obsessive, crazy, beat, poetic, sometimes right-on and sometimes incongruous hand-written notes scrawled right on the cover. Here are a few of his descriptive song reviews: “Like baby this sauve, powerful, floating bag is a bitch”; “Straight ahead and so very, very pretty”; A fabulously hip rocker” and “Rough and stomping, baby”.
Below is a clipping from an old Village Voice that I had stuck in the cover. It’s an excerpt from a Harvey Pekar comic about cantorial music. Mazel Tov.
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July 14th, 2008 at 7:19 am
But have you listened to it? He had one of the greatest voices going. I actually had some BANNER 78’s of him, and they are not easy to come by.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I have. It’s a sweet, groovy, heavy bag of soulful songs
July 14th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
hehehe cantorial music and harvey pekar…like both
July 15th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Truly, what can one say, but that this sauve, powerful, floating bag is a bitch.
January 30th, 2011 at 11:26 am
The artist for that piece is the great Jim Woodring. I never knew he worked w/Pekar and I’ve been a fan of both for almost 25 years. Thanks for posting!
July 29th, 2021 at 12:12 pm
Cantor Rosenblatt was of such renown that he was given a scene in “The Jazz SInger” (1927), singing “Yahrzeit Licht” in one of the few shots with synchronised sound. Quite a compliment to him.