When I got to Germany in 1964 for a year at the University of Göttingen, I had a number of record albums, including one with Guela Gill and Theodore Bikel.
During that year I became good friends with a married doctoral student
and his wife who lived in the student housing I was assigned to. When
Jurgen heard the Bikel album he went crazy. He loved it and we played
it over and over again. And, of course, I left the album with them when
i went back home.
Years later when we visited Jurgen and Inge, Jurgen had gotten every
album Bikel had ever put out and could sing all the songs - particularly
those in Yiddish.
So, it is with a heavy heart that I learn about Bikel's death today. But like my mom, he was in his 90s and has had a good life.
Here's the only Youtube I could find of a song from my old album. It's
been forever since I heard this. It's in Spanish, not Yiddish.
[sorry, this is another reposting because Feedburner didn't pick the original up]
A great loss. Singer, composer, musicologist, linguist...can you name the TWO submarine movies in which he performed?
ReplyDelete--Bill Butler
Not even one, but I could google it.
ReplyDeleteGood obit in today's Chronicle:
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He actually had a considerable naval "career", as the original Capt. von Trapp, Leutnant Swoffer in "The Enemy Below", and the sub commander in"The Russians are Coming"
Be well, Steve,
Bill Butler
Ashland, OR