Your Favorite Jewish Number

[rufussars]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:32pm

What is your favorite song in such a style? This includes a number that either sounds heavily Jewish, is sung by a Jew, utilizes Yiddish, or speaks of general Jew-like content. Yes, it's broad, simply to avoid an overabundance of "Fiddler". I love all things Jewish, but if I must choose an absolute, it would have to be:
"The King of Broadway".
Discuss!

Updated On: 5/29/06 at 12:32 PM

[JudasIscariot]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:39pm

Interesting topic...

You Won't Succeed On Broadway
Four Jews In A Room Bitching
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Springtime For Hitler

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:41pm

You Won't Succeed on Broadway

[ashley0139]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:42pm

Shiksa Goddess (I think that would count). I love that song.

[WiiCKED x3]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:44pm

Shiksa Goddess- LOOVEE that song!

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:57pm

Shiksa Goddess, The Schmuel Song, and I Could Be in Love With Someone Like You.

[liotte]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:00pm

I like George's Prayer in Wedding Singer (Shechyanu).
It's not a musical number, but the sentences in Spelling Bee with Jewish content are great- Jihad, Phylactery, Cenacle, Quandary, Mohel. Updated On: 5/29/06 at 01:00 PM

[Smaxie]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:04pm

My favorite Jewish number? Marc Kudisch!

[flaemmchen]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:06pm

Douglas Sills!

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:10pm

Eye-dina, duh.

[GClef2]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:18pm

"Passover" from Elegies sung by Carolee Carmello is a favorite.

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:20pm

Shiksa Goddess (TL5Y)
The Dream (Fiddler)
You Won't Succeed On Broadway (Spamalot)

I heard from someone once (a very reliable teacher) that Shipoopi was written originally with some sort of Yiddush words in it, and had a very heavy Jewish-ish theme. Hah. That entertained me.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:37pm

Papa, Can You Hear Me?

[LessDazdMoreConfuzd]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:37pm

I thought You Won't Succeed on Broadway was really entertaining to see live, but I don't really listen to it much on the recording. I like the song "Meeskite" from Cabaret, though.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:47pm

Springtime for Hitler, You Won't Succeed on Broadway for being funny

Sunrise, Sunset is just one of my all-time favorite songs.

[jasonf]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:55pm

--Everyone Hates His Parents
--I don't know if it counts, but I LOVE "In My Own Lifetime" from The Rothchilds
--The title song from Rags
--"Our Shtetl is America," "Gliding"
--Of course, everything from Fiddler (the show is encoded in Jewish blood at this point)
--"The Channukah Party" from Caroline

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:45pm

Gliding - Ragtime
Four Jews in a Room Bitching - Falsettos

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:50pm

You Won't Succeed On Broadway
Shiska Goddess
The Schmuel Song

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:51pm

How Can I Call This Home - Parade

Sh'ma - Parade

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:56pm

The Urinetown song, it's either "Act 1 Finale" or "What is Urinetown".

[Kgshrauder]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 4:18pm

I totally thought of Four Jews in a Room Bitching when I read the title of the post.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 4:20pm

I totally forgot How Can I Call This Home from Parade!

[idinarocksmysocks!510]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 4:46pm

You Won't Succed on Broadway~Spamalot! I love that song! The audience was howling!

[pandajen14]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 6:12pm

To say anything from "Fiddler" would be cliched, so I won't.

You Won't Succeed on Broadway is just hysterical. Beyond that, most of Jamie's songs in L5Y, and Mushnik & Son from Little Shop. I don't know if Springtime For Hitler counts, but that's one of my favorite numbers ever performed on a Broadway stage. On that note, how about The King of Broadway?

[pandajen14]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 6:13pm

ACK! I forgot- Four Jews in a Room Bitching. Love it.