Mickey Katz sings "Duvid Crockett"
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A great jewish yiddish entertainer.
Biography
"Mickey Katz (June 15, 1909 - April 30, 1985) was a U.S. Jewish comedian who received his first moments of fame in the 1940s as a member of Spike Jones and His City Slickers where he was most famous for his "glugging" vocal sound effects on tunes like "Cocktails for Two" and others. He later went on to perform his own parodic musical review and record highly popular "ethnic" comedy albums on the Capitol label where he would perform English-Yiddish parody songs. He was also recognized as a master of Klezmer style clarinet and had several hits during his long career. Though Katz sang primarily in Yiddish, he is often as recognized as one of the godfathers of American song parody which would later be advanced by the likes of Allan Sherman and, in the 1980s, Weird Al Yankovic.
Katz and his group can be seen in the movie Thoroughly Modern Millie accompanying Julie Andrews as she sings a Yiddish song at a Jewish wedding.
Katz is the father of Broadway legend Joel Grey and a grandfather of the actress Jennifer Grey. In the early 1980s he told the story of his life in a biography called Papa Play for Me.
Jazz musician Don Byron recorded a tribute to Mickey Katz in 1993 entitled Don Byron Plays The Music of Mickey Katz."
source: wikipedia
"Mickey Katz
Born 1909, Cleveland, Ohio
Died 1985
Mickey Katz's unique blend of Spike Jones, klezmer music, and Borscht Belt humor proved a successful formula for much of the space age pop era. Studying the clarinet as a child, Katz began a proficient performer and was playing with local bands in his teens. He started introducing comic routines into his act and attracted the attention of Spike Jones, who hired him into his City Slickers band in 1946. Katz can be heard on a number of classic Spike Jones recordings, most notably making the astounding poly-glottal "glug-glug-glugs" on Jones' version of "Hawaiian War Chant".
Katz eventually mentioned to Jones' RCA producers that he had been working on his own parody tunes, combining popular tunes with Yiddish lyrics and instrumentation. RCA decided to record Katz and released his first single, "Haim Afn Range" backed with "Yiddish Square Dance." It proved a surprise hit, selling over 30,000 copies in one month.
Like Jones, part of Katz' success was due to the very high quality of musicians he used. Fellow City Slicker Mannie Klein (later replaced by the great Ziggy Elman) played trumpet, the young Si Zentner played trombone, and Sam Weiss played drums, and Nat Farber, a studio orchestrator, provided the arrangements.
The popularity of his RCA singles led Katz to organize a road show, which he called "The Borscht Capades." Among the cast was Katz' own son, who later became famous as Joel Grey. Ironically, one place the show never appeared was the Borscht Belt itself.
Katz switched to Capitol Records in the early 1950s, and remained with the label until he retired in the late 1960s. Most of his material remained the same throughout his albums--Yiddish interpretations of American tunes, rendered in Katz' heavily-inflected comic Jewish accent ("ecch-sent"). But he did play it straight for the album, Mickey Katz Plays Music for Weddings, paying homage to the klezmer music he heard as a child. He also recorded one straight comedy album, Mickey Katz at the U.N., and The Katz Pajamas, a collection of fairy tales told in fractured Yiddish.
Katz reprised the "Borschtcapades" idea in the mid-1960s with a Broadway revue titled, "Hello, Solly," but the show was short-lived. He published an autobiography, Papa Play for Me in 1977. In the early 1990s, black clarinetist Don Byron, who had learned klezmer music as a member of the Klezmer Conservatory in the mid-1980s, paid tribute to Katz's work by recording the well-received Music of Mickey Katz.
For more information on Mickey Katz, check out Haim Afn Range: The Mickey Katz Haim Page.
Recordings
Borscht, RCA Victor LPM 3193
The Family Danced: American-Yiddish Folk Music and Dances, Capitol H 457
Mickey Katz and his Orchestra, Capitol T 298
Mish-Mosh, Capitol T 799
Katz Puts on the Dog, Capitol T 934
Mickey Katz Plays Music for Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and Funerals, Capitol T 1021
The Most Mishige, Capitol T 1102
The Katz Pajamas, Capitol W 1257
Comin' Round the Katzkills, Capitol W 1304
The Borscht Jester, ST 1445
Katz at the U.N., Capitol ST 1603
Sing-Along with Mickele, Capitol ST 1744
Fiddler on the Roof, Capitol ST 2387
Hello, Solly, Capitol SW 2731
The Hits of Mickey Katz, Capitol Starline T 298"
Yiddish humorous version of THE BALLAD OF
DAVY CROCKETT.
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albertdiner 4 years ago
born in the wilds of delancey street
home of gefilte fish and kosher meat
handy with a knife, oh her zich tzi
he flicked him a chicken, when he was only 3
duvid, duvid crocket, he sat in the sun und gerocket (rocked) und gebaket (baked)
duvid, duvid crocket, king of delancey street
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albertdiner 4 years ago
in eighteen thoiteen he fought indianers, then came the litvaks and the galitzianers, avekgeharget redskins all over the shtetl, he never lost his head, he never lost his sheitel
d-d-crocket, he chewed tobacky und gehissed und gechrocket, d-d-c king of delancey streeet
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albertdiner 4 years ago
he went down south, looking for a maidel,
met a little tzatzkale called daisy fraidel
from near and far, they came to the chippe
elected him president of the bnei missisipi
mazel tov duvid crocket ah mazel tov der mame und der alter crocket, mazel tov d-c kods
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albertdiner 4 years ago
he went up west on his ferdeleh shlaim, took along fraidaleh his vaibale shain, shlaim hut gefleet vi an aeroplane, he got to las wegas ahead of the train
d-d-c he walked up to the crap table with a full pocket, d-d-c kods
he shot like a gambler, ainer af der velt
up came two sixes ,in drerd di gelt
he flet very sad, that's my opinion, he would have said kaddish but he couldn't find a minyan
d-d-c farloren di haisen he went home naket, d-d-c he's back on delancey street
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albertdiner 5 years ago
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albertdiner 5 years ago
Dovid, Dovid Crockett; King of Delancy Street
He went out west on his small horse, Schloim Sam?,
Took along Daisile, his wife, alles schoen,
Schloim hat g'fliet--like and air-a-plane,
He got to Las Wegas ahead of the train.
Dovid, Dovid Crockett;
(he vent up to the crap table with a full pocket)
Dovid, Dovid Crockett; King of Delancy Street.
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youvalss 5 years ago
Loved it! Thank god there are Jews in the world :)
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12Puppycutie 6 months ago
A lot of comedians have Jewish blood
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CineGraphic 9 months ago
A Mickey Katz documentary is in the works and needs your support. MickeyKatzMovie (dot) com
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theonlymoo5e 11 months ago
Debuted on the Boston area charts on June 18, 1955, peaked at #3 & charted for 6 weeks
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hswatnik 1 year ago
fine gallery of the great Katz-
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BROKENWING420 2 years ago
i remember this song as a child. my mother and father loved his stuff. what wonderful memories i have of this man,
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spymaine89 2 years ago
BEST CONGRESSMAN WE EVER HAD
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alomarez24 2 years ago
Love this Song, Did u guys see his Grandaughter, Jennifer Grey sing this on Connan O'brien, SO wicked...
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Terry Alaniz 2 years ago
Has anyone seen Jennifer Grey (his granddaughter) sing this?? It is hilarious!!
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