Tuesday, August 5, 2008

The apple does not fall far....


Tapuach, Tapuach Zahav!


The song "Tapuach Zahav" -an Orange (lit. golden apple) is from a genre of early agriculturally themed songs. The song, with a melody by Menachem Rabinowitz (Ravina), and text by Shmuel Bass, uses the orange as a metaphor for the fruit of the labor of the chalutzim. The melody reminded me of the late, great Shlomo Carlebach's beautiful songs in triple meter, so I asked his daughter Neshama Carlebach to sing it. She recorded a delightfully sensuous version with her band, featuring our own Dave Richards on bass.....  

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