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Vi iz dus geseleh yiddish song JAY BLACK vocal

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English title: “Where is the village?“. Year 1966 Jay Black, lead singer of the pop group “Jay and the Americans“. “Where is the Village?“ (Vi iz dus geseleh?) a well known yiddish song. “In 1966, Jay took a standard yiddish song and adapted it into a version to demonstrate his feelings about the Holocaust. After a long struggle with the record company, he convinced them to let him record it. While recording it he worked with Artie Butler to help him with the arrangement since Jay comes from an Orthodox Jewish background. Jay Black who was born David Blatt is the voice, the creator, and everything you hear on that vocal.“. A superb interpretation seldom heard in recordings of this song. I feel he showed a facet of his personality that's quite mature for someone in his twenties. A young man singing about the horrors of the Holocaust, recorded in a vinyl LP intended for the te

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