Old Klezmer Tune: Bublitschki - Ziggy Elman's Orch., 1938

[Joeeeykins]

I LOVE this sort of thing.. beautiful.

[Oliveira062]

Very good, thank you for sharing.

[twhite113]

wow - if this isn';t influenced by Duke Ellington, nothing is.

[krakra2005]

My father, may he rest in Peace, wouldve loved this! I love it!!

[DirkjeA]

What a sad life-story. Pity to read how such a great and talented musician died so young and in such poor circumstances. Thanks for the upload and the interesting story behind it, realy enjoyed this one.

[anamcara13]

Such a friendly sound. I love it!

Thank you for posting it.

[mcfrdmn]

Lovely musical performance!

[Ettoredipugnar]

He played with  such style

[GunBigotHater]

I love this kind of music. Thank you for posting it.

[topshelfjazz]

now this is the stuff i need to drink!! and lots of it!! lots and lots!!  xxFoxaque

[TheEmmochka]

so nice!! yaffe

[818indaEaStSid3]

CAN ANYBODY EXPLAIN WHAT THE HELL WORDS SUCH AS" SHHMUCK""SHHLAMEEL" MEANS .....EXPLAIN OR YOULL BE IN MY ASH TRAY!!! OH NO YOU DIDN'T...... OH YES I DID!@!@!@ HEH HEH HEEH

[smoochielipz21]

@818indaEaStSid3 can't even go somewhere sophisticated, the riff raff always follows somehow. haha you're real funny. stfu.

[PrimeKind]

...sry..no words that can explain anything to white trash like you ;)...maybe the mosad can...whats ur adress again?

[janciolek1]

genialne

[RaananVolesPianist]

It's incredible how together the sax section is. That kind of section work is what traditional (i.e., non-jazz) klezmer music is lacking.

[Seigfreid52]

I love Klezmer. It has a certain beauty and signature of a bygone era.

[DancingSpiderman]

This genre should be required listening and study before any of today's "Smooth Jazz 'artists' " are allowed to put out another banal album.

Today's "artists" have no soul in their solos, there is no improv in their solos. Aspiring artists must learn how to infuse true feeling into their music; not the same old tired lines or crappy scales in their playing efforts.

Ziggy Elman. Wow.

[santapeter]

@DancingSpiderman ......they just aint got that swing !!

[DancingSpiderman]

@santapeter Do wah do wah do wah ...!

[borowikanatol]

cudeńko.....

[Alicja1Fenigsen]

@borowikanatol najlepsza wersja!



[MelissaTicky]

@Tinymoezzy THAT is a great comment i agree 100% thank you ... "buy sampling from other cultures we can really grow and learn more. A society free to borrow from others and the past is culturally richer in music."

Great point

[maxwolfeee]

haha ;-)

[MelissaTicky]

@maxwolfeee awe... great to hear you laugh lol... thank you lol

[donmoseslerman]

for your information The jewish people lived in the Russia from the very beginning of its creation and share many words in language as wellas folk songs., don't knock the Jewish contribution to Russian music, you just come across like the antisemite that you are

[czzham]

@donmoseslerman

Oh, Hush, you schmatzah!

My folks are from Belorus, near Minsk, but Jewish just the same. Sorry, we got watered down & I'm mostly Slavic & Gaelic... still, I remember the Jazz the Jews laid down in my childhood... it still's my stuff... Period.

Sorry to have troubled you. Peace! out.

[Tinymoezzy]

@donmoseslerman agreed... both influenced each other... as any culture would influence another after being exposed for such a long period of time.

I happen to love the sound ... buy sampling from other cultures we can really grow and learn more. A society free to borrow from others and the past is culturally richer in music.

[donmoseslerman]

I agree with you 100% well said!

[magicraker]

@donmoseslerman . He was my great great grand father's causin. and our family came from what is now known as modern day Ukraine. His causin Mischa Elman was a violinist.

[BratWody]

@donmoseslerman Jews were not allowed to sattle in the Ethnic Russia.

[judsons]

By the way, the Barry Sisters' version of "Bublitschi" is a wonderful performance too.

[judsons]

Ziggy Elman also played with the fabulous Mickey Katz especially on "Weddings, Bar Mitvahs and Brisses". His klezmer based jazz playing made him one of the best.

[statjay]

I have that Mickey Katz CD. As much as I love it, this version really swings!

[ekksmann]

"Bublitschki" is Russian da? is this song also called " Begalach" in yiddish?- is that what it means like its a song about "Bagels" ? Schejn :-)

[panflutemaniac]

For your information:This is an old Russian song composed by Bogomazow, in the beginning of XX century!So This is not an "Old klezmer"tune!By the way:The Jewish people like to make his own from the Rumanian and Russian music and to say this is Klezmer Music.I think that is a Big Shame

[pihlbot]

It's cool how even though this was composed so long ago, its so similar to more modern traditional jazz, Louis Armstrong style. Except for a few parts.

[tariqwahl]

I concur.

[Vandoren333]

I don't about melody,but text was writen by Yakob Yadov (1926) in Odessa.Another men from Odessa, Leonid Utesov, make this song popular in Russia.Btw they both are jewish.

[Skorrigan]

@panflutemaniac Agree. Please all Klezmer music loving people bear this in mind. "Bublitchki", "Ajde Jano" and "Hava Naglia" are NOT Jewish compositions. Even thoush the text is in Hebrew, the music is not Jewish ffs!

[mcfrdmn]

Excellent performance

[FearlessDreamer3]

I meant to click on 'thumbs UP'!!!!

[abochner]

marvellous

[31sylvia]

I grew up with this wonderful music played on the radio or on the old Victrola

and when my parents took me to the Yiddish theater.

It is mekhiya (pleasure, delight) to find it here to be rediscovered by new generations. Vunderbar!

[Jewcygrl]

Wow. This song is, like, ingrained in my psyche by my mother. I had no idea of the title or anything. "Bublitschki" makes it even cuter.

[teshanovic1]

i love the melody

[Sakimonk]

Very nice :)

[smoochielipz21]

@772east leave stupid.

[fromthesidelines]

Recorded at Elman's first session for [RCA] Bluebird (which also introduced "Frailich in Swing"), on December 28, 1938.

[gmlch]

thank you, great stuff!

[motley7885]

If you listen to the delightful vocal version of Bublitchki by the Barry Sisters, which I believe was recorded in the 1950's, it begins with a trumpet solo by Ziggy Elman.

[fromthesidelines]

As with "As The Angels Sing", Benny Goodman covered this, with English lyrics, as "Who'll Buy My Bublitchki? [The Pretzel Vendor's Song]" in the spring of 1939.

[Vandoren333]

Купите бублички )))

[NiftyNataliePollock]

My sax-player father used to play me music like thei when I was a litle girl in the late forties and fifties..so sweet

[wolkowy1]

What a good performance!!!

[albertdiner]

This song by Ziggy has been my favorite, along

with the freilach part in AND THE ANGELS SING.

I hope that his recordings are not lost in

time, and someone will make a compilation and

remastering of those songs. He is a very

important performer in the history of modern

yiddish music, as well as music of the Big

Band era. Thanks for uploading this song.

[makebelieveballroom]

Albert,check out "And the Angels Sing" over in the "ballroom".When Ziggy was with Dorsey. WillieD.

[albertdiner]

Thanks for letting me know. I really enjoyed

listening to that version by Ziggy Elman with

the Dorsey Band.

[barbcard]

Bublitschki is also American-Yiddish slang for grandchildren or sweet kids in general, prob. related to the word bubele. My own "bubeles" just left after a brief visit, which always make me sad.

[alexsas2645]

bublitschki related to the Russian word bublik (бублик). Bublitschki means "several lovely bagels".:)

[genia106]

I like your lyrics better, they sound so cute!

Buy my little bublitschki, hot little bublitschki when you give me your rublitschki. = bublitschki..rublitschki..soun­ds like a special song for a child. :)

[kspm01]

Great, quite unique blend of the klezmer and jazz styles!

[Pathe39]

hehe, śpiewane po polsku? Jak to szło?

[dzheger]

The song has Yiddish lyrics and it's called "Beygalach" I remember the refrain starts with: "koif mayne beygalach, heysinke beygalach" (Buy my bagels, hot bagels). Nice jazzy version and lovely illustration of klezmers.