[78-L] Yiddish Home on the range

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Jun 4 14:43:35 PDT 2009


And Joel Grey (who was making 78s in the mid 50s) recorded an album for Capitol 
titled Songs My Father Taught Me.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>>> I'm sure this has been covered before, but
>>> Mickey Katz's son grew up to be musical star Joel Grey.
>>> Taylor B
> 
> From: "I. Cubillo" <i.cubillo at telefonica.net>
>> Aaahhh... that's it!
>> I didn't know about Mickey Katz, except for the fact that
>> this name rings a bell.. Is Mickey Katz related to the
>> movie/great musical show CABARET? Could this be the
>> connection that rang a bell in my mind? 
>> Joel Grey was great in Cabaret!     Iñigo Cubillo
> 
> 
> One of Mickey Katz's last albums was the recording of his traveling show
> "Hello Solly".  He might have done something with Joel concerning
> Caberet, they did do some performing together.  And that book "Papa Play
> For Me" is wonderful.  
> 
> Katz supplies the glugs in Spike's "Cocktails For Two", and also for
> Pinto Colvig's Bozo record "Filbert the Frog", one of the greatest
> records of all time.  It's not quite the same as "One Froggy Evening"
> but might have led to it.    
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
> 
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