English title: "Where is the village?". Year 1966 Jay Black, lead singer of the pop group "Jay and the Americans". "Where is the Village?" (Vi iz dus geseleh?) a well known yiddish song. "In 1966, Jay took a standard yiddish song and adapted it into a version to demonstrate his feelings about the Holocaust. After a long struggle with the record company, he convinced them to let him record it. While recording it he worked with Artie Butler to help him with the arrangement since Jay comes from an Orthodox Jewish background. Jay Black who was born David Blatt is the voice, the creator, and everything you hear on that vocal.". A superb interpretation seldom heard in recordings of this song. I feel he showed a facet of his personality that's quite mature for someone in his twenties. A young man singing about the horrors of the Holocaust, recorded in a vinyl LP intended for the teenagers who buy pop/rock. First half of the song is sung in yiddish, and the second half of the song in English. Only one other major jewish vocalist, Steve Lawrence, included a yiddish song in his popular repertory, a song titled "Where Can I Go?", also about the Holocaust period. Steve Lawrence sang the english lyrics first, followed by the yiddish lyrics. Jay Black undertook a higher risk, singing the yiddish lyrics first. "Where is the Village?" is a gem of a yiddish song, and Jay Black's curriculum should indicate popular vocalist, and yiddish singer. "Where is the Village?" sung in Yiddish and <b>...</b>
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