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Pick a Pocket or Two

from Surprising Finds by Metropolitan Klezmer

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This song is from the 1960 musical "Oliver!" by Lionel Bart (released as a film in 1968), based on Charles Dickens' 1838 novel OLIVER TWIST, the story of an orphan boy who falls in with a den of young thieves in London run by an old Jew known simply as Fagin. In "Pick a Pocket or Two," the best known of several songs which Bart wrote for Fagin, the boys are indoctrinated into crooked ways...
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from Surprising Finds, released February 13, 2014
Words and music: Lionel Bart, c/o Hollis Music / BMI, arranged by Eve Sicular and Metropolitan Klezmer; chorus vocals by Ismail Butera, Rick Faulkner, Pam Fleming, Debra Kreisberg and Eve Sicular

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Metropolitan Klezmer New York, New York

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER, established in 1994, brings eclectic exuberance to Yiddish musical genres from all over the map. Performing vibrant versions of lesser-known gems from wedding dance, trance, folk, swing and tango styles, as well as soundtrack material from vintage Yiddish films, they re-invent tradition with both irreverence and respect… an exhilarating journey! ... more

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