From : mokumtv
Added: Feb 8, 2009
"When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records. Apart from the Light Programme, there was no music in the house during the rest of the week, and anyway, the star of my parents' collection of 78s was now heard only occasionally on the BBC. His discs, kept carefully in a cupboard in their paper wrappers, were placed on the turntable, the stylus lowered, and within a few notes we were all sobbing. For the singer, Leo Fuld, was renowned as the leading exponent of Yiddish song; he was, as it turned out, the last great Yiddish star. Einstein was said to be a fan. Fuld had had two smash hits: one was a cover of Sophie Tucker's My Yiddishe Momma, but it was the second, Wo Ahin Soll Ich Geh'n (Tell Me Where Shall I Go), that had us crying our eyes out. Tell Me Where Shall I Go told the story in two devastating verses, sung in Yiddish and English, of a man with no country." (Linda Grand on Thursday July 26, 2007 in The Guardian)
Category : Music

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