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# Title Principal Artiste Composers Lyricist / Date written Place Date recorded Matrix Label&cat.no. Additional Information
707 A Letter To My Mother, (A Brivele Der Mame) Lew Stone & the Monseigneur Band Gilbert / Nikle w/m 1907 London January 10, 1933 GB-5446-1 Dec F-3428 As above. Take 1. Sung in Yiddish.


Letter To My Mother, A (A Brivele Der Mame)

Letter To My Mother, A (A Brivele Der Mame) (Take 1)

(Gilbert / Nikle)

Lew Stone & the Monseigneur Band


This is take 1. Take 4 (GB-5446-4) was recorded 27th January 1933. Both were released.

Sung in Yiddish

The lable credits Gilbert / Nikle but sources suggest it was written by Solomon Shmulevitsh [a.k.a. Small]

A brivele der mamen
Zolstu nit farzamen
Shrayb geshvind, mayn lib kind
Shenk ir di nekhome,

Di mame vet dayn brivele lezn
Un zi vet genezn
Heylst ir shmerts, ir biter harts
Derkvikst ir di neshome