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Album titles we rejected:
Gangsters in Toyland  •  Dental Telepathy  •  Newspeak  •  Vodvil  •  Cheap Trills  •  Hotsky Totsky  •  Disguised as Themselves  •  Heebie-Jeebies  •  Brass Bandits  •  Revolting!  •  Loonytunes  •  Shatter Zone  •  Harlot's Hello  •  Hell's Kitchen  •  Hoi Polloi  •  Tsardust  •  We Cover the Earth  •  Marching to a Different Drummer  •  Blues from Brassadonia  •  Satanic She-Devils of Sansabelt

Paragraph that didn't make it into the liner notes:
"Traveling through an underground network of tacky motels, subsisting entirely on espresso and scraps filched from used room-service trays, The Klezmorim frequently change planes between cities to confound the authorities. Their movements are unpredictable."

Album concept we dropped:
Preceding each musical track with a soundscape evoking the trials of life on the road.
     [SOUND EFFECTS:  AIRPORT AMBIENCE]
     PASSENGER IN AIRPORT LOUNGE:  Excuse me
are you boys musicians?
     KLEZMER:  No, ma'am. We're The Klezmorim.

Tunes we recorded that didn't make it onto the album:
Yiddisher March (Cherniavsky)  •  Back from the War (Naftule Brandwine)