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Israeli rapper Sagol 59 recently released his debut American record.
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The Jewish (celebrity) songbook,
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new CD of classic Jewish songs
features Adam Sandler, Rob
Schneider and Triumph the
Insult Comic Dog, and the biggest sur-
prise of the album isn't even that they all
manage — more or less — to stick to
the original lyrics.
The big surprise is, they're entertain-
ing when they do.
The truth is, the ambitiously titled
The Jewish Songbook: The Heart and
Humor of a People casts its stones
toward a very specific era and subcul-
ture: the late 1940s and early '50s, cen-
tering on the melodies and entertainers
of the Borscht Belt, the hotel circuit
that started and ended at the Catskill
Mountains in New York.
While its tracks range from
the straight-up liturgical (Barbra
Streisand's version of the Rosh
Hashanah hymn "Avinu Malkeinu")
to the modern Israeli ("Hatilcvah," as
performed by Marvin Hamlisch), the
material hearkens to the tradition of
singing comedians and wise-cracking
singers, when the words "variety show"
really did mean variety and you weren't
sure what kind of song you were listen-
ing to until the last note was played.
Like the Catskills stage, the stars
of Songbook are shmaltzy even when
they're fresh.
It opens with the Manhattan
Transfer's lead singers harmonizing in
a smooth retro chorus, trading boo-be-
doo scales with a horn section.
Schneider does a credible job singing
on the '40s novelty song "Bagels and
Lox," written by one of Elvis Presley's
songwriting teams, while his fellow
Saturday Night Live alum Sandler does
an unexpectedly straightforward rendi-
tion of"Hinei Ma Tov:'
The serious side of the collection
is held up by Neil Sedaka's straight-
forward "My Yiddishe Momme," and
Theodore Bikers performance of
"Sabbath Prayer" from Fiddler on the
Roof, which is sentimental and not at all
out of place.
But the best songs are a pair of
set pieces: "Joe and Paul," performed
by Paul Shaffer and Richard Belzer,
and "Mahzel Means Good Luck" by
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and
Max Weinberg (of Bruce Springsteen's
E Street Band). The former is a send-up
of the '50s Hebrew and Yiddish radio
station WEVD, broadcasting out of New
York, and features both entertainers
speaking in Yiddish.
"Shaffer knew the song in Yiddish,"