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an ethnocentric racist."
However, if you can't stand the
premise of The Producers, you'll be
calling the Anti-Defamation League
he Shout! Factory's Now That
Sounds Kosher!, a new collec-
after hearing Mel Brooks' over-the-top
production of "The Inquisition."
tion of 18 Jewish novelty
I'm sure that seeing classic rock
songs — from the classic shtick of
songs like that nice Jewish boy Lou
Allan Sherman and Mel Brooks to the
funky beats of 2 Live Jews and Yid
Reed's hit "Take a Walk on the Wild
Rock — just released on CD, cries out
Side" into Yid Rock's "Take a Walk on
to be heard this
the Kosher Side"
Purim. The holiday
and that nice non-
begins this evening,
Jewish boy Bruce
March 24, at sun-
Springsteen's hit
down.
"Glory Days" into
Since talmudic
Allen Lieberman's
times, Jews at Purim
"Holy Days" isn't
have poked fun at
for everyone. But
themselves, their
why not?
leaders, their institu-
The disc also con-
tions and their
tains Lieberman's
worlds through
John Denver-
purimshpiels (shpiel is
inspired "Thank
a Yiddish word
God I'm a Jewish
From "Duvid Crockett" to "(It's
meaning a "play" or
Boy."
Good To Be) A Jew at Christmas"
"skit"). This disc has
I'm a Jewish boy
18 holiday-ready purimshpiels that
thankful there is not
don't necessarily focus on Purim but
one song built on Jewish American
are reverentially in the spirit of irrever- Princess stereotypes. In fact, "You'll
ence.
Never Get the Party Started," credited
Not every song on the play list is
to a Mrs. Pincus — who is really Shari
Foos, the wife of Shout! Factory CEO
going to be everyone's glass of hot tea
Richard Foos — plays against stereo-
with lemon and a cube of sugar, but
type by featuring a mother who nags
there is something here to bring a
smile to everyone in your minyan.
her daughter (OK, it doesn't play
against every stereotype) because she
For example, I really didn't want to
isn't stylish enough.
know about the Soggy Matzah Boy's
It's nice that the humor on this disc
"Man of Constant Tsuris" being
is sharp but doesn't cut deep and leave
plagued with a gas problem, but
wounds.
Schlock Rock's remake of Ricky
It's also good to hear the alta cockers
Martin's "Livin' the Vida Loca" as the
Allan Sherman ("Sir Greenbaum's
hora-phobic "Learning to Dance the
Madrigal") and Mickey Katz ("Duvid
Hora" was just too goofy not to smile.
Crockett) get a seat at the table, as
And who can resist the opening
well as Tom Lehrer — yes, that Tom
whistles of "Don't Worry, Keep
Lehrer of "National Brotherhood
Kosher" by Guns and Charoses?
Week" fame — who adds a recent
Hardly any of this is what one
tune "(I'm Spending) Hanukkah in
would call "politically correct," but I
Santa Monica." In case you were won-
think more will laugh than die when
dering, he's spending Shavuos in East
"Weird Al" Yankovic sings in "Pretty
St. Louis.
Fly for a Rabbi" about how cool it is
that he "reads Torah and does his own
accounting, too."
Or when Kinky Friedman in "They
Now That Sounds Kosher!, at a
Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus
cost of $13.98, is available in
Anymore" tells off an anti-Semite
selected stores or by logging on
somewhere deep in the heart of Texas:
to www.shoutfactory.com .
"If there is one thing I can't abide, it's

DON COHEN

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