חג חנוכה שמח 🕎 5785

Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱🙏

For freedom of Gaza

originals are on the whole are always better than covers n this is just that case in point,better than later versions n yes better than Ronstadts,hers is a good rendition but this is the bomb

I like the Ronstadt version better. Still, it’s amazing this wasn’t a much bigger hit. Most people don’t even know it exists.

I gotta say I like all 3 version Dee Dee, Betty Everett and Linda Ronstadt

Whilst searching this day. Consolation?

She is no good for what she did to Whitney Houston!

The guitar, ahead of their time.

Lived it! Laughed it! Sung it! Phpppbbbttt!😂

Diane Warwick sister.?...wow

Finally found it. Nobody is aware of who the composer was!

duuuude the fuzz guitar solo! so sick!

This song is sung before we have a Shul appeal. It brings in large pledges.

Great tune. My mother had this but not this version, on a 78 with a blue label. No wonder Keith Emerson wanted to try his hand at it.

This song turns me into a damn muppet

We owe a lot to these original artists.

The best version !!!! Thanks.

Wow never hear the original....very nice.

I knew it was too Motown sounding to be a Linda Ronstadt original and I thought I'd heard it before, back then. This is really a groovin' version. It's hard to beat an original, especially with a Warrick singing it.

There were three cover versions - cause The Barron Knights did this one too.

Ik word te oud voor dd÷ muziek😂

Beautiful song

Listen to the guitar, how hard it is, highly unusual for it's time, it was recorded in 1963!!!

There are a number of melodies associated with the Etz Chaim prayer. I personally favor the ageless version, but this is pretty too.

Tremendous. However, the orchestration in the Ronstat version is so beautiful it eclipses this version. But then, I heard LR's version first.

It's a short song but it's full of emotion and I'm very happy I found out about it. Love the harmonica, love his voice and them lyrics hit hard man

Was, and will always be a classic.

Yeah, no tragic irony this 2023 year.

The part that you say is 'incorrectly sung' is one of the most minor modifications I've ever heard. I cant believe you're making a bit deal out of it! I think the way people sing it today sounds better actually. Music changes, especially congregational music as opposed to music for the concert hall. I highly doubt Tanchum cares. In fact, he actually himself sings the 'changed' or 'incorrect' way. There is a video of him with Eli Schwebbel in a restaurant singing the song, and he clearly sings it holding the A for three beats. So stop talking rubbish please.

Actually this is the “world premiere” of this song. But the composer and his friends presented it two or three years earlier at a Yeshiva University Chanukah party (where it took first prize). Later they ( and another two or three guys) recorded it on their Shivat Zion album.

דב פרימר, המלחין, שר ומנגן כאן בגיטרה. זה סוג של מקור

Today is the first night of Hannukah 5784, AKA 2023. Chag Sameach to all who are listening to this most beautiful prayer, especially in these trying times of darkness all around us; let the miracles, the wonders and the salvations come!

Great James Bond guitar licks

Great

I think Van Halen's version is pretty good. But I like the original the most. Good song.

Wow! Music far ahead of its time for 1963. What attitude! Iggy Pop wishes he had this much attitude.

Next-generation Rock n roll

It has a Latin boogaloo vibe

Sorry to say this ,I like The Swing Blue Jeans version.

I’m not even Jewish but I love this song

This is one of the best songs ever written - obviously .................. BUT - she is doing her own backing vocals, and just that is colossal !

Nobody in England has even heard of this woman, but every single one of them has heard of her sister. For my money that's the same old story, because the actual ability balance seems to be the other way around. In America, it seems like nobody's ever heard of the Swinging Blue Jeans version, which is the only one we know. I'm glad to say I never heard Linda Ronstadt or Van Halen do it, but I'm sure they would both do a ghastly job !"£$%^&*()_++_)(*&^%$£"! P.S. Thank you - as a frighteningly old man, I am able to get a serious buzz off seeing the labels of singles, and even the paper sleeves. .......

I thought Betty Everette's recording was the original.

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Dee Dee Warwick, Betty Everett, The Swinging Blue Jeans and Linda Ronstadt....all of these versions are great!

Any relation to Dion?

The original versions are usually the best. The percussion in this is great.

Is there anywhere I can buy a digital version of this album(or any album from this artist)? I can't find them anywhere! only discogs seems to have this, but it's Vinyl and not available in the states (unless I pay over 70 dollars)

Sha1om. There are a couple issues with your statement that everyone should use this tune in the original. 1 when Tanchum wrote this tune he did not use Shem Hashem or even a substitute. So, how do you add words while maintaining the integrity of the niggun. That is a minor issue. The much bigger issue is that words are repeated throughout the original version. Most sholes minhag at least in most US Orthodox ones is not to repeat words this causes a need to make adjustments. I know for a fact that Tanchum had no problem with this. My father Cantor Sherwood Goffin took this beautiful tune from an obscure album and introduced it to NCSY in the late 70's and while singing it he would say now this is how to sing it in shule. This basically created the way at least here in the US that we sing it. If you ever meat Tanchum ask him what he thinks of what my father did to the song. I will give you a hint he thanked him profusely everytime we ran into him.