65/027: Yiddish Folk Speech #4 - Bass * Bonyben

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Title

65/027: Yiddish Folk Speech #4 - Bass * Bonyben

Date Created

1960-07, 1965-04-18

Collection

Wilgus (D.K.) Collection

Notes

Description

Title from tape: Yiddish Folk Speech #4 - Bass * Bonyben
Locations: North Hollywood, California; Los Angeles, California.
Content: Various subjects. Locations: North Hollywood, California; Los Angeles, California; Ohai California; Canoga Park, California. Side 1A: Curse: I hope you go to your levia tomorrow; Curse (Yiddish): Afta Gonnuf Bren Ta Hittel; Expression (Yiddish): Reply to what's new: On the Roof...; General discussion; Jokes: Jew and Irishman in hospital; Jewish couple in court to obtain divorce; Variant of above; Jewish man writes to wife in old country and snds her things; Bald man meets man with hair; Couples spending their 25th wedding anniversary; A couple's experience with a Paris artist; Englishman marries; General discussion; Joke: Rabbi and Rabbitzen at the Mikveh. Side 1B: Bonybean History; Norht African Hunters and Fisherman; Meanterthal (The Tall Meander); Cro-Magnon (Grandpa-Cro); How the informant got the name "Burr"; How his family got to Central America (The Bonybean Tribe); Uncle Contiki; Origin of the saying "He's gone south"; Piedra Blanca; The invention of the bow; Discovering the ships of the sea; How lion canyon got its name; Little Shehan and Grandma Skinnyfingers; Grandma Skinnifingers' club; How the informant got the name "Wallace"; THe last of the Bonybean Tribe; How Wallace got a wife. Side 2A: Lil (poem); Here's to Mag (poem); Frigging in the rigging (good ship venus) (song); One-Eyed Reilly (song); Pilot Told Me Before He Died (song); Way Down by the River Perdec (song); Queen of all the Acrobats (song); Last Saturday Night (song); Good Old Mountain Dew (song); Meet Me by the Slop Shute (song); Story of a Cat - Sam the Fraternity Man (song); Gay Cavallero (song). Side 2B: West Point march; Presentation Day; The Fouth Class System; "Kissing Rock" on "Flirtation Walk"; The Stone Eagle on the doorway of Washington Hall; The Statue of General Sedgewick; The cadet of France statue from Le Col Polytechnique; West Point Alma Matre (origin and text of the song); The Core (origin and text of the song); Benny Haven's Oh (origin and text of the song); Army Blue (origin and text of the song); On Brave Old Army Team (song). Side 2C: The rock jumped when the rooster crowed (riddle); Trying to get bread, jam, and butter, to comeout even (riddle); The cows' legs matched the mountain (riddle); Come O Cao (tongue twister); Had an Old Mule (poem); Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo (counting out rhyme); Oh! The Buzzards, They Fly High (song). Tape #4, continued from tape 65/26. Note: Performers: Jeanette Machat; Louis Machat; Mike Hendin; Wallace Burr; Delta Songs; Christopher Lambides; Kathy Morgan
Collected by: Irving and Reba Bass

Physical Description

Extent

28m 18s

Dimensions

7 in.

Keywords

Resource type

sound recording