PLEASE HELP
PLEASE HELP
Dsiggy15
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/10
#1PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 2:42am
Hey Everyone,
My school is doing a musical revue of Frank Loesser, and we want to include the parody song Satchel and a Seck written by Allan Sherman. The only problem is we don't know the lyrics because they are in Yiddish. Can anyone please help me by transliterating the lyrics? Please please please help! We need it really soon so please ask your Jewish friends and your grandparents! Thank you so much!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 9:14amWell, considering you didn't supply the yiddish lyrics, how can I help?
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#2PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 9:34amI don't know any Yiddish, but if it's a direct translation of one of his songs into Yiddish, the original song must be "A Bushel and a Peck" from Guys and Dolls. Check out those lyrics and see if it matches up at all.
#3PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 9:57amToo bad my grandmother doesn't use message boards. The only yiddish I know is "goyim".
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#4PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 10:13amWend...it is...but its a parody of the song. Allen Sherman was a comedian -- of the 60s. Pretty funny, pretty jewish. I actually had one of his albums when I was a kid.
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#5PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 10:51amThey don't need a translation, they need a transliteration.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#6PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 12:33pm
Which doesn't make sense anyway, because yiddish is not a written language. 
I would have helped....but I guess it's not that important since the OP didn't come back.
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Dsiggy15
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/10
#7PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:37pmThe reason I didn't post the lyrics because there is only one website where the lyrics can be found and they are all wrong.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#8PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 2:33pm
Then how can I help you? Do you want ME to go find the right ones for you?
Oy.
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Dsiggy15
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/10
#9PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 5:37pmNo, I wanted someone to be nice enough to transliterate them.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 6:34pmThere actually IS a word "transliterate"! Live and learn!
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ArtMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
#11PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 6:48pmDramamama...its oye vey!!!! Do you remember...hello mudda, hello fadda, here I am in Camp Granada?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#12PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 7:16pm
Yes, I never said there wasn't...but it doesn't mean what the op thinks it does.
He either means translate or transcribe....but now based on his most recent post: NOW I'm guessing the op wants someone that HAS the recording to write it down word from word from it. Not asking too much from a bunch of strangers, eh?
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 7:22pm
Hence, he wants us to "transcribe" the Yiddish lyrics.
The only way I'd do that is if he revealed the name of the love child Mr Roxy conceived with Corine 'way back when.
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#14PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 7:28pmIt strikes me as an unwise idea to include a song in a revue that's in a language that no one in the cast can speak.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
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#15PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 7:39pm
"Which doesn't make sense anyway, because yiddish is not a written language."
You might want to tell that to the owner of this Yiddish bookstore.
ETA - Forgot to paste the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/nyregion/25about.html?scp=1&sq=yiddish%20book%20store&st=cse
Updated On: 8/28/10 at 07:39 PM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#16PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 7:40pm
Add to that -- who in their audience would understand it?
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#17PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 7:42pmPossibly this is to be performed in a Yeshiva.
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#18PLEASE HELP
Posted: 8/28/10 at 8:36pm
My stating that it isn't a written lanuguage didn't MEAN to imply that you couldn't write it. You can. My original post about that was referring to the word "transliteration".
I should have said it wasn't a written language using its own ALPHABET.
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