Hi, Shopping 613. You mean ‘Jump Down Spin Around’ has been popular lately? The video my son showed me looked old, like a black-and-white TV broadcast.
When I was a kid my folks had probably all of Alan Sherman’s records. (Wish I could listen to them now. Sigh.) JDSA was probably on “My Son the Folk Singer”. The records were old way back then in the ’70s, and the songs must have been a part of the culture for some time before that in order for them to be recognizable for parody purposes.
I always heard that music notation as we know it is a fairly modern invention, so we have no way of knowing how the songs sung/played in antiquity actually sounded. Wouldn’t it be hilarious to find out when Moshiach comes if the music from the Bais HaMikdash sound familiar. But in an unexpected way, like today’s pop songs or something.