Davy Crockett 1955

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RIP Fess Parker

another Mickey Katz gem
I tried to transcribe

Duvid, Duvid Crockett; King of Delancy Street.
Duvid, Duvid Crockett; This boy you've got to meet
Born in the wilds of delancey street
Home of gefilte fish and kosher meat
Handy with a knife, oh her zich tzi
He flicked him a chicken, when he was only 3
Duvid, Duvid Crocket, he sat in the sun und gerocket (rocked) und gebaket (baked)
Duvid, Duvid Crocket, King of Delancey Street
In eighteen-toiteen, he fought "Indianes,"
Den came the "Litvaks" and the "Galitzianes,"
Ah Ver derharget redskins all over the shteitle,
He never lost his head...he never lost his sheitle.
Duvid, Duvid Crockett;
Duvid, Duvid Crockett; King of Delancy Street.
He went down south, lookin' for a meidle.
Met a little tsatskele called DaisyFreidle.
From near und far, dey came to the "chippie,"
Elected him president of the B'nai Mississippi.
Mazeltov Duvid Crockett; mazeltov the mama and the altacocker
Mazeltov Duvid Crockett; King of Delancy Street.

previously on Davy and Fess Parker, who passed away yesterday at age 85

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This is probably the Yiddish view from old Delancey Street. It's pretty funny, even if you don't understand yiddish. From albert diner on youtube

Mickey Katz's (June 15, 1909 - April 30, 1985) unique blend of Spike Jones, klezmer music, and Borscht Belt humor proved a successful formula for much of the space age pop era. Studying the clarinet as a child, Katz began a proficient performer and was playing with local bands in his teens. He started introducing comic routines into his act and attracted the attention of Spike Jones, who hired him into his City Slickers band in 1946. Katz can be heard on a number of classic Spike Jones recordings, most notably making the astounding poly-glottal "glug-glug-glugs" on Jones' version of "Hawaiian War Chant". Katz eventually mentioned to Jones' RCA producers that he had been working on his own parody tunes, combining popular tunes with Yiddish lyrics and instrumentation. RCA decided to record Katz and released his first single, "Haim Afn Range" backed with "Yiddish Square Dance." It proved a surprise hit, selling over 30,000 copies in one month. Like Jones, part of Katz' success was due to the very high quality of musicians he used. Fellow City Slicker Mannie Klein (later replaced by the great Ziggy Elman) played trumpet, the young Si Zentner played trombone, and Sam Weiss played drums, and Nat Farber, a studio orchestrator, provided the arrangements. The popularity of his RCA singles led Katz to organize a road show, which he called "The Borscht Capades." Among the cast was Katz' own son, who later became famous as Joel Grey. Ironically, one place the show never appeared was the Borscht Belt itself. Katz switched to Capitol Records in the early 1950s, and remained with the label until he retired in the late 1960s. Most of his material remained the same throughout his albums--Yiddish interpretations of American tunes, rendered in Katz' heavily-inflected comic Jewish accent ("ecch-sent"). But he did play it straight for the album, Mickey Katz Plays Music for Weddings, paying homage to the klezmer music he heard as a child. He also recorded one straight comedy album, Mickey Katz at the U.N., and The Katz Pajamas, a collection of fairy tales told in fractured Yiddish. Katz reprised the "Borschtcapades" idea in the mid-1960s with a Broadway revue titled, "Hello, Solly," but the show was short-lived. He published an autobiography, Papa Play for Me in 1977. In the early 1990s, black clarinetist Don Byron, who had learned klezmer music as a member of the Klezmer Conservatory in the mid-1980s, paid tribute to Katz's work by recording the well-received Music of Mickey Katz.

Davy Crockett

A history of life at Knickerbocker Village for those who were kids in the 50's and 60's would be incomplete without including Davy Crockett.