In this lighthearted look at the very serious problem of the illegal copying and downloading that has plagued the music business, Jewish music personalities join forces taking you through a day in the life of a fictitious Jewish singer, portrayed by Yoely Leibowitz.
Like everyone else, he is trying to earn an honest living, support his family and use his abilities to help others, but throughout the day he encounters former singers who have been forced to take other jobs as illegal copying and downloading has eaten away at their primary source of income.
The Music Video which was shot both in London and New York is Directed by Danny Finkelman, and Produced by FM Productions along with Sparks-Next for the AMI magazine. The Song which is both in Yiddish and English was written by the duo Motty Ilowitz & Moshe Kravitsky with original Music by Hershi Ginsberg as well as Motti Cohen.
Free Download of the song
Yoely Leibowitz, Beri Weber, Gershy Moshkowitz, Yumi Lowy, Yossi Benshimon, Sruly Ginsberg, Shloime Gertner, Yoely Greenfeld, Shloime Taussig, Dovid Gabai, Sruli Meyer, Mendy Wertzberger, Nachas, Michoel Schnitzler and Shimi Goldstein.
ענדליך פון קאמפויזער מען האט שוין דעם ניגון
,יעצט דארף מען פון ערענזדשער (די) מוזיק באקריגן
וואכן מ'ארבעט מיט די פייפער'ס און פידלעך
און דאס איז נאר אויף "איינס"! פון די 10 לידלעך.
נאכדעם וואס די מוזיק (ערענזשדמענט) איז שוין געלונגען
,קומט ערשט יעצט דער זינגער דעם לידל אפזינגען
ער זינגט און זינגט, ער איז שוין אויסגעברענט
. שעות דויערט ביז ס'הערט זיך 100 פראצענט
מ'איז אבער נישט פערטיג, יעצט דארף מען קווייער
,שעות/וואכן אין סטודיא ס'איז שווער און טייער
נאכדעם א מלאכה פון שניידן און פיקסן
.דער מומחה טוט עס עדיט'ן און דער גייט עס מיקסן
ווער רעדט נאך פון דעם דעקל, א גוטע דעזיינער
, ס'מיז זיין רייך פאר דעם דעקל ליינער
נאך די פאר יאר פון שווערע ארבעט און געלט
די נייע סידי אין געשעפט אריינגעשטעלט
די ווילסט עס נישט קויפן קיינער בעט נישט
אויב ווילסט עס יא, אויף גניבה טרעט נישט ,
פאר די מאכסט א קאפי טראכט א מינוט
. 'ס'נישט קיין תירוץ אז 'יעדער טוט
ווי קען מען פון א קאפי הנאה האבן
ווען שווערע געלט און ארבעט ווערט מיט דעם באגראבן
די שפארסט דיך טאקע אפאר נישטיקע סענט
.אבער די עבירה ברענט
"Well I used to be an entertainer
Everyone knew me
People ran into the stores
To pick up a Copy
of my latest cd
That is of course
Until the birth
Of mp3s"
Shut the lights
And curtains down
My work is diminished
Y’Copy paste a thousand times
Parnassah is finished
Not sure you get
What I’m tryin to say
So how’s about I turn
Around and put it this way
A lot of money goes into
The record labels
And I just wanna put
A little food on my table
And give the world what to sing about
But money talks and money walks
And I’m running out
The drum man
The base man
And Johnny Guitar
Don’t move a muscle
Feel the hustle
Get in the car
But the pedal won’t do a thing
F’The tank is empty
Pay them money so you can sing
Hey I know you wanna sing along with everyone else
But if you’re sharing music I’m losing all of my gelt
Hold up there sonny cause heaven sees
Every little deed
I’m trusting you
Believe in you
Look out for another Jew
And you’re the man of the hour
The boss the king
Enabling
Me
To sing
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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7 comments:
can't help you guys its 2011 you wanna make some money go get a day job !
Moshe I'm not sure what ur saying. R u trying to say that u don't need Jewish entertainment? Then why are u on this site?
read carefully and you will understand what i wrote ! who said i don't like jewish entertainment ??
You're all wasting your time. Your chances of getting results are as good as those of the jewish wedding bands who thought they can prevent the one man bands from taking over.
YIDDISH??!!!
english please???!! i dont know Yiddish...
BSD
I think that if the performers shifted away from albums to 1-3 song productions that sell for $1 to $2.50, or perhaps $5 at the absolute most when a top performer and a tzedoko are involved, they'd sell more and copying would stop. You'd still have the real offenders who sell copied music, but it would keep those who just don't have $15 happy and away from their friend's albums. The copiers are Creedmoorer Chassidim who usually are into plenty of other shticks; so we should NAME them, and then we SHAME them, and not be the ones who MAINTAIN them, cuz they're lowlives stealing GELT, making dirty GELT, by selling things they stole and taking from you GELT...!
It would allow the performers to keep current with fans by releasing songs a few times a year rather than once every two years, and customers would not even notice the small amount they are paying for new songs. This way, even if some lowlife does copy, more people will pay and they'll pay more often. A single can be issued on iTunes as well as via Mostly Music so it can reach a larger audience than it would as a disk.
Most albums are not profitable in any event; this might at least cut the losses or allow for a small amount of regular profit that keeps everyone happy and the copycats at bay.
Can a Yiddish-adept person please translate the Yiddish lyrics for us Yiddish-inept folks?
A groissen dank!
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