“Where is the Village?“ Vocal by Jay Black

Jay Black, lead singer of Jay and the Americans. “Where is the Village?“ a well known yiddish song. “in 1966 Jay took a standard Yiddish song and adapted it into a version to demonstrate his feelings about the Holocaust... After a long struggle with the record company, he convinced them to let him record recording it he worked with Artie Butler to help him with the arrangement since Jay comes from an Orthodox Jewish Black who was born David Blatt is the voice, the creator and everything you hear on that vocal..“. A superb interpretation seldom heard in recordings of this song. I feel he showed us a facet of his personality that’s quite mature for someone in his twenties: A young man singing about the horrors of the Holocaust, recorded in a vinyl LP intended for the teenagers who buy pop/rock, and sung in Yiddish first, and then the second half of the song in English. Only one other major jewish vocalist, Steve
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