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| (Issachar Miron) |
| (o): | Issachar Miron (1942) | label: |
| | Real name: Michrovsky. Wrote this while in the Palestinian Brigade, part of the British Army. Julius Grossman wrote a new version in 1947. On May 14th 1948 (birth of the Israelian State) it was played as the first song on the (no longer clandestine) Israelian radio station. |
| (c): | Weavers with Gordon Jenkins (1950) [n°3 US, B-side of Goodnight Irene; also a version in Hebrew], Mitch Miller Orch. (1950) , Tohama (1950) [hit Fr as Tzena], Jacques Hélian (1950) [idem], Lucien Jeunesse (1950) [idem], Edmundo Ros (1950) , Vic Damone (1950) , Chet Atkins (1960) , Connie Francis (1961) , Paul Evans (1961) , Springfields (1962) , Smothers Brothers (1963) , Stanley Black (1965) , Pete Seeger (2008) [at 89 with Arabic lyrics], |
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