Album titles we rejected:
Moxie • Streets of Gold • Freilachs and
Holiday Songs of the Jewish Immigrants
Dedication that didn't make it into the liner notes:
"Dedicated to our grandparents, who had the good sense to leave Russia."
Sentence that Chris Strachwitz blue-penciled out of the liner
notes:
"The simplistic, schmaltzy stuff which passes today for Jewish music is little
more than a ghost of the real thing; what Hitler didn't obliterate in the Old
World got nose-jobbed to death in the New."
Tunes we recorded that didn't make it onto the album:
Elek Veled, Halok Veled • Kecskebeka Felmaszott a
Fuzfara • Mayn Rue Plats • Baym Rebns
Sude • Ikh Bin a Boarder Bay Mayn Vayb •
Lomir Freylekh Zayn (Tarras) • Arcanul •
Hopak/Kucheryava Katyerina • Nyet Nyet Nikavo/T'raneinu
Sefosai
Who the album was almost credited to:
Laurie Chastain & The Klezmorim