{"id":6984,"date":"2016-03-03T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T12:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6984"},"modified":"2016-03-02T08:06:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:06:03","slug":"yiddle-mitn-fiedel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/yiddle-mitn-fiedel\/","title":{"rendered":"Yiddle mitn Fiedel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I had a song stuck in my head.  It was playing on a loop through most of the afternoon.  I input the lyrics into a search box and found out that the primary refrain of my song was a movie:  <i>Yidl mitn Fidl<\/i> or <i>Yiddle with his Fiddle<\/i>.   According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishfilm.org\/Catalogue\/films\/yiddle.htm\">National Center for Jewish Cinema<\/a>, <i>Yidl mitn Fidl<\/i> was &#8220;the most commercially successful musical in the history of the Yiddish cinema.&#8221;  The story about a penniless father and daughter who become traveling musicians has songs, but not the song stuck in my head.  There is a clip of &#8220;Yidl mitn Fidl&#8221; from the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/jwa.org\/media\/yiddle-mitn-fiddle-poland-2\">on the Jewish Women&#8217;s Archive<\/a> and also a version by the Klezmer Quartett Heidelberg:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TDFkcy_NBMg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A cursory search of the internets found &#8220;Yiddle on your Fiddle play some Ragtime&#8221; by Irving Berlin.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nUAxRveofYQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This was also not the song stuck in my head.  When I went home last night, I searched through our newly organized record collection for the song.  I knew I had heard it in the house, on our little multi-function record machine.  I was unsuccessful.  Then, while watching <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sense_and_Sensibility_%28film%29\"><i>Sense and Sensibility<\/i><\/a> I had a brainstorm and went to our CD cabinet.  I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Music-From-Yiddish-Radio-Project\/dp\/B000060P7J\"><i>Music From the Yiddish Radio Project<\/i><\/a> and on it was Yidl mitn Fidl by the Barry sisters, and Eureka! That was it, so I share it with you.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/BarrySisters-01-25\" width=\"500\" height=\"140\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a song stuck in my head. It was playing on a loop through most of the afternoon. I input the lyrics into a search box and found out that the primary refrain of my song was a movie: Yidl mitn Fidl or Yiddle with his Fiddle. According to the National Center for Jewish&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/yiddle-mitn-fiedel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yiddle mitn Fiedel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[172,111],"class_list":["post-6984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-consumption","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5962,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/04\/03\/stuck-in-my-head\/","url_meta":{"origin":6984,"position":0},"title":"stuck in my head","author":"leems","date":"April 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"do you know the muffin man the muffin man the muffin man do you know the muffin man who lives on Drury lane? \u00a0 \u00a0 hey, Wikipedia\/Project Gutenberg has an illustration of said muffin man.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/36\/Muffin_man_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_20338.png","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11195,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2025\/12\/18\/christmas-time-in-florida\/","url_meta":{"origin":6984,"position":1},"title":"Christmas time in Florida","author":"leems","date":"December 18, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gCHQ3kVQSm8?si=LTFbkaUk3Lo5p-tb The song \"Christmas in Florida,\" written by John A. 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