"and the angels sing" yiddish song in english EYDIE GORME

And the Angels Sing/Der Shtiller Bulgar
1) Intro- Ziggy Elman and his orchestra
2) Eydie Gorme- vocal
3) Benny Goodman and his Orchestra w/ Ziggy Elman ( Trumpet)-Freilach klezmer
4) Eydie Gorme- vocal ( reprise)
5) Ziggy Elman and his orchestra w/ Gene Krupa (drums) and Ziggy Elman (trumpet)- Freilach klezmer

YIDDISH SONGS REACHED THE #1 SPOT ON THE
HIT PARADE IN THE YEARS 1938-1939.
1938- BEI MIR BISTU SCHOEN- with The Andrews
Sisters.
1939-AND THE ANGELS SING- with Benny Goodman
and his Orchestra. ( english version of
"Der Shtiller Bulgar")
terrible times for european jews, but in
America yiddish music was heard everywhere.

EYDIE GORME.- "Suddenly the setting is strange.....Suddenly I see it all changed"
sings Eydie in the 1950s version of the
song, arranged by the great Don Costa.
But for some unknown reason the Klezmer/
Freylach part at the end was left out. I
always felt Eydie should have contacted
Ziggy Elman to add that fabulous yiddish
music.
Now we find Eydie Gorme in a virtual setting, as the female vocalist in the
company of two great big bands, Benny
Goodman and his Orchestra, and Ziggy
Elman and his orchestra. We are back in
1939, with the great Gene Krupa at the
drums, the fabulous clarinet playing of
Benny Goodman, and the great trumpet of
Ziggy Elman. And Eydie singing to a
wonderful yiddish melody.

FREEDMAN CATALOGUE OF JEWISH SONGS:
Name: Mercer, Johnny
Born: Nov 18, 1909 (Savannah, Georgia)
Died: June 25, 1975 (Los Angeles, CA)
Note: Born John Herndon Mercer
Title: And The Angels Sing
Also known as: Freylekh In Swing
Author: Mercer, Johnny
Composer: Ellman, Ziggy
Genre: Swing/Pop
Subject: Love
Song Comment: Adaption of "Der Shtiller Bulgar"

OTHER RECORDINGS: opinion

"... CD I've been listening to is From Avenue A To The Great White Way: Yiddish and American Popular Songs From 1914-1950, a compilation that traces the remarkable influence of Yiddish theatre and vaudeville on the development of the mid-20th century popular music culture. It's fascinating stuff.
One example. Many of my (ahem) older readers will be familiar with "And The Angels Sing," a tune that was a huge hit for Benny Goodman, with Martha Tilton singing Mercer's lyrics. Mercer so loved the song that it is his epitaph: his gravestone in Savannah reads simply, "And The Angels Sing."
We meet, and the angels sing,
The angels sing the sweetest song I ever heard.
You speak, and the angels sing -
Or am I breathing music into ev'ry word?

But the tune that was the basis for "And The Angels Sing" was Ziggy Elman's "Frailach in Swing," recorded in 1938 and in turn based on "Der Shtiller Bulgar" ("The Quiet Bulgar"), an old klezmer dance. The Avenue A CD juxtaposes a 1918 recording of "Der Shtiller Bulgar" with Mildred Bailey's version of "Angels," and it's a revelation. ".

Ziggy Elman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Harry Aaron Finkelman (May 26, 1914 - June 26, 1968), better known by the stage name Ziggy Elman, was an American jazz trumpeter most associated with Benny Goodman, though he also led his own Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra.

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but his family settled in Atlantic City when he was four. His father was a violinist who had hoped he would play violin as well. Although, he learned to play the violin, Harry preferred the brass intruments. He began playing for Jewish weddings and nightclubs at age 15 and in 1932 had his first recording where he played trombone. At some point in the decade he adopted the name Ziggy Elman. Elman is a shortening of Finkelman while "Ziggy" is believed to be a reference to Florenz Ziegfeld.

He joined the Benny Goodman orchestra as a trumpet player in 1936. His 1939 composition "And the Angels Sing" with lyrics by Johnny Mercer became the number one song in the nation. In 1956, he recreated his famous frailach solo along with the original vocalist Martha Tilton for the movie, "The Benny Goodman Story". This song is, arguably, his longest lasting musical legacy since it has appeared in films up to 1997 and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1987. After his work with Goodman he joined Tommy Dorsey's band and also played as a member of the United States Air Force during the war. He loved frailach music, later known as klezmer, and made a few recordings of such with Mickey Katz. In the period from 1940 to 1947 he was honored in Down Beat magazine readers poll six times.[1] He led his own bands starting in 1947.

"and Jewish jazz musicians were deftly incorporating Yiddish melodies into swing-band tunes by the 1930s, as Ziggy Elman did when he helped Benny Goodman transform Abe Schwartz's "Der Shtiller Bulgar" into "And the Angels Sing," featuring vocals by Martha Tilton and English lyrics by Johnny Mercer."

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