Theodore Bikel

Of his Yiddish songs, I like Kum Aher du Filozof (a snag friend of mine used to say he liked this song because it makes fun of both chassidim and maskilim).

Tzu veystu vos der Rebbe tit
Beshas er zitst bi’ychides?
In eyn minut er in himl flit
Un pravet dort shalesh-shides.

His Russian accent is most charming:

Dark Night (original). I used to listen to this song over and over on a record.

What’s sadness to me?

Gypsies coming home (a rather liberal interpretation, but a very nice one)

(For the last two songs the titles in the player are wrong.)

From Songs of Russian Gypsy.