BUBLITCHKI yiddish song Ziggy Elman and the Barry Sisters

Bublitchki Bagelach ...Russian yiddish song
in the famous recordings by the great yiddish-american trumpet player ZIGGY ELMAN
recorded in 1938 under Ziggy Elman and his
Orchestra, as well as the classic 1950s
yiddish vocal recording by The BARRY SISTERS.
Images of the famous Moscow Metro (subway
underground) and its palatial stations, built in the mid 1930s onwards.

0:01-1:15 Ziggy Elman , trumpet solo
1:16-3:08 The Barry Sisters, yiddish vocal
3:09-4:15 Ziggy Elman and Orchestra ( reed section)
4:16-6:18 The Barry Sisters, yiddish vocal
6:19-7:46 Ziggy Elman, trumpet solo

ZIGGY ELMAN
b. May 26, 1914, Philadelphia, PA, USA. d. June 26, 1968 Van Nuys, CA, USA.
né: Harry Finkelman
Theme: "And The Angels Sing" (MGM 10047) (also on a Bluebird record that isn't Elman's band)(BUBLITCHKI Bluebird label
B-10103-A)
Referring to this Bluebird recording, a site visitor has advised: "Actually this is the original recording of "And The Angels Sing" before it had lyrics. It was then known as "Fralach In Swing" and it is this title which appears on early pressings. Later ones use "And The Angels Sing". The musicians are all from the Benny Goodman band of the period as was Ziggy Elman himself and include the complete reed section and Jess Stacy at the piano."
In December 1938, Elman was invited to start making some recordings which would be released as "Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra," but, in truth, his musicians
were actually all members of the Goodman band.
ZIGGY ELMAN's
talent, youthful exuberance and brashness came to the fore when Benny allowed him to interpolate Yiddish "Fralich-er" (Yiddish for 'happy-like') phraseology into his solos. The public simply adored this. Probably the best known example of Ziggy's style is Benny's recording of "And The Angels Sing" - as popular today as when it was first 'laid down on wax'.

While with Goodman he recorded 20 sides for the Bluebird label. Although the labels indicate "Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra" these records actually have Elman leading a band made up of members of Goodman's orchestra.
How popular was Ziggy? He won the Downbeat Magazine's Poll for Best Trumpet in 1940 and '41, 1943 through 1945 and again in 1947. Many people thought Ziggy to be the world's greatest trumpet player

Yiddish lyrics

Bublichki,
Koyft mayne beygelecht,
Heysinke bublichki,
Hu,koyft...

Es kumt bald on di nakht,
Ich shtey zikh tif fartrakht,
Zet,mayn eygelecht
Zaynen farshvarst.
Der frost indroysn brent,
Farfroyrn mayne hent,
Fer tzores zing ikh mir
Mayn troy'rik lid.

Nu,koyft zhe bublichki,
Heysinke beygelekht,
Di letste beygelekht,
Nu koyft bay mir...
Ikh shtey aleyn in gas,
Fun regn ver ikh nas,
Di letste beygelekht,
Nu koyft bay mir...

Di nakht es geyt farbay,
Der tog rukt on afsnay,
Ikh shtey in gas un trakht,
Vos vet dokh zayn?
Der veytik iz in hoyz,
Fun hunger gey ikh oys,
Oy menshn,hert mayn lid,
Fun hunger shvakh.

TRANSLATION

BAGELS! HOT BAGELS!

Come-and-get my bagels
Hot bagels, hot rolls
It's almost night now
Here I stand deep in thought
See, how dark my eyes are!

It's freezing out here
My hands are frozen stiff
This sad song comes out of
My desperate troubles!

So! Come-and-get my bagels!
Hot bagels! Hot rolls!
My last few bagels
So! Come-and-buy my bagels!

Here I stand all-alone in the street
Soaked through by the rain
So! Come-and-buy my bagels
Night has fallen. There's no light left.

Here I stand thinking
What's gonna be?
There's nothing but pain at home
I'm so hungry, I'm about to faint

Dear folks, hear my song
I'm so hungry I'm about to faint
So! Come-and-buy my bagels
My last few bagels!

The Barry Sisters די שװעסטער באַרי
Bublitchki [בובליטשקי (בײגעלעך)‏] (‎‎3:45)
Bublichki Бублички
the Barry Sisters די שװעסטער באַרי
Bublitchki [בובליטשקי (בײגעלעך)‏


Bublitchki: song
""Bublichki" (Bagels) is a Jewish song from the 1920s Odessa.
The city became the home of a large Jewish community during the 19th century, and by 1897 Jews were estimated to comprise some 37% of the population....
In 1920s Odessa was still the Yiddish capital of Russia. In Russia the town is famous for its sense of humour and Jewish accent ".
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[wallywa]

Ziggy Elman is great, no doubt. I TAKE OFFENSE IN ANYBODY tying Yidish music with the "Moscow Metro". That show-off project was built (under the tough command of one of the worst Jewish people, who ever lived: Leyzer Kaganovich) by GULAG inmates with their bare hands. Tens of thousands died . Many of them Jews. Show some synagogue ruins, like the great one in Brody, now abandoned and overgrown... The Stalinist Moscow Metro is a hidden graveyard of good people.

[albertdiner]

@wallywa Thank you for the information you have sent. It was only after I made

the video that I read about kaganovich and his cruelty. What impressed me was

the luxury of these train stations when people were undergoing economic difficulties.

The lyrics of ther yiddish song reflect hardships totally in contrast to the opulence

of these stations.

I will look up the synagogue in Brody as per your suggestion.

[1942tj]

Great vid!

I love the Music and the contrast to the Metro.

Are they all Russian Metro?

[albertdiner]

Yes, all the stations are part of the Moscow

subway underground Metro.

[S10THh]

...if it was Russian song, it would never be translated to Yiddish anyways)

And one more thing - we all know, that Jews always speak of difficulties in careless and optimistic way not sadly... well, at least Russian and Soviet Jews, that is)))

[albertdiner]

Thank you for your comments. I was very surprised when I heard the non-yiddish lyrics to this song which translate as "My father is alwasy drunk When he gets back home He beats us For hours My mother has lovers My sister, simply Behaves like her mother And me, I cry" I never found those lyrics in any of the yiddish versions of the song.

[gabaude81]

Excellente Vidéo.

Compliments et Merci.

[Vanyaaynav]

Музей под землей.

[mcfrdmn]

Lovely musical performance!

[npod1941]

Спасибо дуэту., благодаря которому можно видеть московское метро в его первозданном. сказочном виде. СПАСИБО!!!

[angelface22322]

@albertdiner Nevermind this ignorant individual.

First of all, this Russian-Jewish song was written for its own sake and has nothing to do with any abandoned Synagogues. It is a beautiful song, typically kvetchy, depicting the life of a street vendor during that era.

Secondly, the Communist Party was ruled mostly by Jews who tried to outdo each other in sadism, cruelty and murder of their own people among many others.

No offense intended, but you revise some of your facts as well.

[KOCHKA1000]

very nice video, I still love to play these songs

[DevoBassGirl]

@Whyolin "Bubliki" in Russian translates to "bagels"

[almoni33]

עם ישראל 18

[normx9]

Night comes on, the streetlamp swings, Light slips thru the gloom of night. I, unwashed, clad in rags, and all beat up, Can scarcely get around. Buy bagels, hot bagels, Give money, here, quick, and in the vile night, Take pity on unlucky me and my private trade. My father is a drunkard, He boasts of it himself, He has one foot in the grave, But he keeps drinking. My sister is a streetwalker, My mother is a fallen woman, And I am a female smoker, Look -- like this! lyrics

[MrAussiebuck]

I would like to translate the beginning of a Russian variant of the song into English: It is getting late, The street light sways And the wind bursts into nights darkness I am dirty, wear rags stay on the corner of a street Forgotten. Hot Bubliks For our Republic People, gimme your Roubles Quick!