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Shpil Du Fidl, Shpil

from Surprising Finds by Metropolitan Klezmer

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This song is from American director / entrepreneur Joseph Green's first Polish / Yiddish cinematic co-production, featuring Molly Picon in one of the several cross-dressing roles of her long and highly varied career as actor, singer, dancer, acrobat, comedienne, radio host, lyricist and Maxwell House pitch-person...
[More in liner notes]

lyrics

Play you fiddle, play
Play a lovesong for me
Only you alone know
How it haunts and tugs at my heart...

[Complete lyrics in Yiddish, transliteration and English translation in liner notes]

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from Surprising Finds, released February 13, 2014
words: Molly Picon, music: Abe Ellstein, from the film YIDL MITN FIDL (1936); arranged by Eve Sicular, Debra Kreisberg and Metropolitan Klezmer

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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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