I clicked on this because I recognized the line from the song. I haven’t listened to Country Yossi in ages … time to go through the old cassette tapes!
“Deaf Man in the Shteeble” is beautiful. It’s almost brought me to tears on a few occasions. I wouldn’t want to listen to anything less spiritually uplifting. I’ll just pretend the original song doesn’t exist in my space-time continuum.
And, I’ll take “The Little Kinderlach” over “Kars 4 Kids” any day.
@interjection – Personally, I prefer the vocals in the Crystals’ version over Country Yossi’s, if not for the lyrical content. (Blech!) Also, I always felt bad for the boy in CY’s song, what with the parenting and teaching methods he was put through!
Does anyone feel there’s a slight “mixed message” when frum bands parody modern pop songs by folks like edited and edited (if the mods will allow us to write such unholy names here)? In comparison to the “oldie” songs Country Yossi and Veroba have parodied over the years, modern pop songs have little to no artistic merit.
I know the frum artists say right and left that they don’t endorse the original songs, the original artists, etc., but religious people who may not otherwise have heard these songs might still become exposed and desensitized to the (for the lack of a better word) musical style of this (typically) morally incompatible genre and not know to stay away if/when the original junk starts playing.