Monday, January 06, 2025

Kvetch Me If You Can!!!

From his 1957 album Mish Mosh, please enjoy yiddish Spike Jones-ish musical parodist Mickey Katz -- perhaps better known these days as Cabaret star Joel Grey's father/Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey's granddad -- and his hilariously tacky "How Much is That Pickle in the Window?
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I stumbled across the above quite by accident the other day; it's an amusing story, but I'll share it with you guys at some other time. Preferably involving something kosher. 😎

In the meanwhile, regular posting -- by which I mean, music and stuff that's actually relevant to the theme of this here blog -- resumes tomorrow.

Sorry for the delay, but I'm still recuperating from the holidays.

3 comments:

Jonathan F. King said...

The instrumental break (starts at 1:00) is worth a listen ... it's got that whole mariachi/Klezmer thing going with the horns, then a Yidl min fidl kicks it up a notch.

steve simels said...

Katz was a serious musician underneath the comedy shtick.

Anonymous said...

I found this LP recently and sent a picture to my friend as we both dig this kind of stuff.

He says: "The REAL butcher cover!" (had I been drinking something it would have come out my nose).

Bob in IL