Twenty Songs of the Chosen Surfers

Meshugga Beach Party | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 15, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Jmg / Jewish Music
• ASIN: B000BO0LMC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,425 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Meshugga Beach Party is actually Mel Waldorf (with drummers Shig Komiyama and Tom Rockwell), and his Twenty Songs of the Chosen Surfers is just what it sounds like: traditional Jewish songs played in the style of surf music, i.e., klezmer meets Ventures. Sound a little hokey? Well, maybe. But the two styles mesh surprisingly well. When this reviewer's Jewish father saw Pulp Fiction and Dick Dale's "Misirlou" began playing over the opening sequence, he expressed pleasant surprise that Quentin Tarantino was using a Yiddish folk song in his film. And he wasn't too far off--the tune actually began life as a Greek zeibekiko dance. Worth checking out if you'd like to hear a new twist on "Hava Nagila" or "Shalom Alechem"...or just like surf music, well-played. --Benjamin Lukoff

Product Description

Ask any big Hollywood macher, and they?ll tell you that it?s the latest craze with the boychicks and maydeles! The parting of the Red Sea and the curl of the Banzai Pipeline to the sands of the Sinai and the waves of Waikiki to the Diamond District to Diamond Head! The songs of the Jews and the sound of the surf guitar. So grab your surfboard, a bobby-pin for your yarmulke and don?t forget the sunscreen! The whole mishpuchah will be there to kibitz, nosh and dance the Hora at the Meshugga Beach Party! Cowabunga dude!!!

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hora on the beach, December 22, 2005

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Isadora Alman (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twenty Songs of the Chosen Surfers (Audio CD)

You'd think it's a huge divide - lovers of surf music and those who favor traditional Jewish melodies, but the two can come together here and dance a very exciting hora on the beach. A surprisingly enjoyable musical fusion with excellent guitar playing.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars even my Bubbe loves it!, December 21, 2005

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Jessica Lindsey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twenty Songs of the Chosen Surfers (Audio CD)

This record is awesome! The Jewish melodies are great with the surf guitar sound - I love it, my kids love it, my Mom loves it, even my Bubbe loves it. Now they all want to go surfing - oy vey!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars it gets in your head...and that ain't bad, September 25, 2006

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Bella Miriam "musicmaven" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Twenty Songs of the Chosen Surfers (Audio CD)

If you love Jewish Music or surf guitar... you will have a new favorite album. It got my Dad's toes tapping... and I don't think he ever liked either Jewish Music or Surf Guitar... so anyone may like it. It is that good.

Enjoy.