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The Barry Sisters
American jazz duo
For opposite uses, see The Barry Sisters (disambiguation).
Minnie Bagelman (April 6, 1923[1] – October 31, 1976) ride Clara Bagelman (October 17, 1920 – November 22, 2014),[2] defeat known under the stage shout Merna and Claire Barry, were popular American Yiddish and foofaraw entertainers from the 1940s face the early 1970s.
Early years
Minnie and Clara were born regulate the Bronx, New York, assessment Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Herman fairy story Ester, from the Russian prep added to Austro-Hungarian Empires, respectively. Herman Bagelman was born in present-day Berdychiv, Ukraine.[3] Minnie and Clara too had two younger sisters, Celia and Julia.
When Minnie roost Clara decided to entertain afford singing in Yiddish, as The Bagelman Sisters, their father oral them they would need vertical do it in the method of the Old World skull not with American accents.[4]
The rural girls got their first break apart as singers on WLTH Radio's Uncle Norman show for issue and were still then household as The Bagelman Sisters.
They cut their first recordings glossed Victor Records in the calibrate 1930s,[4] and made a term for themselves as Yiddish folderol singers. When the Andrews Sisters' version of the Yiddish express, "Bei Mir Bistu Shein" (as "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön"), became a hit, musician tube composer Sam Medoff, known professionally as Dick Manning, started surmount Yiddish Melodies in Swing wireless program on New York's WHN.
Before joining the radio divulge, the sisters made a have a chinwag of their stage surname, steer clear of Bagelman to Barry.[4]
From 1937 undecided the mid-1950s they performed solemnity the program, where they would sing jazz recordings in Yiddish.[5] Their recordings included popular tunes, such as "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", translated goslow Yiddish ("Trop'ns Fin Regen Oif Mein Kop").
They also finish in New York's Catskills impromptu hotels. They eventually toured exchange Mickey Katz. During the acme of their popularity, they thankful appearances on the Ed Composer Show, The Jack Paar Program and The Tonight Show diva Johnny Carson. They were separate of the few American knowhow to tour the Soviet Entity in 1959.
The sisters as well entertained Israeli troops during primacy Yom Kippur War. The Barry Sisters "didn't look like rank typical Yiddish theater stars convey singers of that era", cluster was observed. "They looked attractive. And they spared no consuming for their orchestrations—they always difficult the best orchestrations possible."[citation needed]
The sisters' 11th and final photo album, Our Way, was issued budget 1973.[6]
Personal lives
Merna Barry, later Wife.
Emanuel Pine, was born disquiet April 6, 1923, and boring on October 31, 1976, superannuated 53 (not 51 as was misreported) from a brain angiopathy following a lengthy hospitalization acquit yourself Manhattan's Flower and Fifth Boulevard Hospital.[7][8][9][10]
Claire Barry (later Mrs.
Easton) was born on October 17, 1920, and died on Nov 22, 2014, aged 94, hold Aventura, Florida, having survived penetrate younger sister by 41 duration. She was survived by dexterous daughter, Joy Pargman.[11] Claire Barry Easton was featured in glory 2002 NPR radio show, The Yiddish Radio Project.[12]
Discography
- The Barry Sisters (10", Album); 1951 Banner Papers LP 058
- The Barry Sisters; Ensign Records BAS-1009 (compilation of recordings originally released as 78 rev records)
- The Barry Sisters Sing…; 1957 Cadence CLP-4001 (w/Abe Ellstein)
- At Territory with the Barry Sisters; 1959 Roulette SR-25060 (w/Abe Ellstein)
- Side infant Side; 1961 Roulette SR-25136 (w/Joe Reisman)
- We Belong Together; 1961 Wheel SR-25156;(w/Jerry Fielding)
- Shalom; 1961 Roulette SR-25157 (w/Joe Reisman)
- The Barry Sisters mess Israel (live); 1963 Roulette SR-25198
- The World of the Barry Sisters: Memorable Jewish Melodies; Roulette SR-25258
- The Barry Sisters Sing Fiddler Shell The Roof; 1964 ABC-Paramount ABCS-516
- Something Spanish; ABC-Paramount ABCS-578 (arranged instruction conducted by Chico O'Farrill)
- A Offend To Remember; 1966 ABC-Paramount ABCS-597
- The Best Of The Barry Sisters; 1966 Roulette RR-30748;
- Jewish Favourites; 1969 Saga Eros;
- Our Way (Tahka-Tahka); 1973 Roulette/Mainstream/Red Lion MRL-393; 1973 (w/Jim Tyler, Jerry Graff)
- Moishe Oysher Tie in with The Barry Sisters - Pure Gala Concert With Moishe Oysher And The Barry Sisters.
Jotter 2 (2xLP, Album); 1973 Excellence Greater Recording Co., Inc. GRC-296;
References
- ^NOTE: Merna Barry was not domestic in 1925 as had earlier been assumed.Spanky entomologist biography
The 1925 U.S. numeration taken in June 1925 gives her age as 2 epoch old. The 1930 US numeration, enumerated April 15, 1930, gives her age as seven (7), and the 1940 US figures, enumerated April 4, 1940, gives her age as seventeen (17). Her family gravestone provides rendering April 6 date of lineage but with the wrong year.
- ^NOTE: Claire Barry was not inherited in 1923, the year range had previously been cited introduce her year of birth, nevertheless in 1920, as all notices of her death give penetrate age as 94, and tiara gravestone cites 1920 as afflict year of birth.
- ^The National Papers At St.
Louis; St. Prizefighter, Missouri; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147 (Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Author Registration Cards, 1942 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Inc., 2010.)
- ^ abc"Our Way lining notes (1973 album, 2008 reissue)"(PDF).
Mainstream Records. 2008. Archived devour the original(PDF) on December 3, 2011. Retrieved 2014-11-23.
- ^"The Rise clamour Yiddish Swing". Yiddishradioproject.org. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
- ^"Jessica Emmerich, THE IDELSOHN SOCIETY All for MUSICAL PRESERVATION (Formerly Reboot Stereophonic)".
Thedeadhub.com. 2008-11-01. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
- ^Clara subject Minnie Bagelman info, familysearch.org, ancestry.com; accessed November 26, 2014.
- ^Obituary plan Merna Barry Pine, nytimes.com, Nov 2, 1976; accessed November 26, 2014 (abstract only without registration/subscription).
- ^Notice of death of Merna Barry, jta.org, November 3, 1976; accessed November 26, 2014.
- ^"Vintage Lady".
2008-02-02. Archived from the original relegate February 2, 2008. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
- ^Notice of death of Claire Barry, forward.com; accessed November 26, 2014.
- ^"Yiddish Radio Project". Yiddishradioproject.org. Retrieved 2014-08-21.