This gloriously rich, marginally weird, truly wonderful compilation roams even wider than the title suggests (it adds Berlin and London), from
Cantor Sirota
to
Molly Picon
Sophie Tucker
from comic theatre duos to the
"Partisan Song."
A few cuts (
Leo Marjane's
"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen,"
Benny Goodman's
"Shirt-Tail Stomp") are reaching, but so, in context, what? Great notes are included, too. ~ John Storm Roberts, Original Music