1919 Columbia E4610 Yiddish Klezmer Yiddishe Blues Shimmy LT. FRANKEL'S ORCH

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Columbia  Yiddish /Jewish 78 rpm No. E-4610  from 1920

1. Yiddelach. Shimmy : Jewish Orchestra   85746-A-1

  Lieut. Jos. Frankel's Orchestra

2.Yiddishe Blues. Fox Trot :  Jewish Orchestra   85750-A-1

Lieut. Jos. Frankel's Orchestra

Condition:   VG-     This copy  plays loud and solid but has scuffs and many light non-sounding scratches and one 

sounding scratch that yields three or so sounding light clicks. Record is not worn but probably was not 

sleeved for most of its life..enjoyable performance!

From the internet: 

Joseph Frankel was born in Kiev, Russia (now Ukraine). Kiev conservatory trained bandmaster and a band leader in the Tzarist army, he toured the US in 1904 leading the 14th Regiment Military Band. In the early 1910s he led theatre orchestras in New York. When WW1 started Joseph Frankel was touring South America with a Russian Symphony orchestra. He took US citizenship and became a band leader in the US army. After the war he recorded traditional tunes as well as his own contemporary compositions including 'Yiddishe Blues'. "Yiddishe Blues" is a 1918 experiment by Joseph Frankel. The piece blends ragtime sensibility in instrumentation and syncopation, a klezmer melodic line with "Mi Shebeyrekh" cantorial mode. By insisting on including the rank "Lt.", Frankel was already signaling to American-ness for the Jewish nation. Suitably, Frankel was a band officer in both the Russian and American armies, a fact that reveals the futility of trying to anchor any specific Jewish national identity in the XX century. Even as Frankel was evolving a hyphenated Jewish-American musical identity, other bandleaders were still "national" to reference the European side, as in Abe Schwartz's "National Hora". Updating Frankel's work of hybridization has become basic to recent klezmer bands.

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