IF I WERE A RICH MAN

Created on 17/09/2007
Latest update on 15/01/2024

Artist: Zero Mostel
Author: Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick
Label: RCA Victor
Year: 1964

As Tevje in Broadway version of musical Fiddler On The Roof, based on Tevje And His Daughters, a book written in Yiddish by Russian writer Sholom Aleichem (1894).

Covers:

1966:

Lex Goudsmit [Dutch version as Als Ik Toch Eens Rijk Was in musical Anatevka]

1966:

Herb Alpert

1967:

Topol [in London cast; replaced after a while by Lex Goudsmit, the Dutch Tevje]

1967:

Roger Whittaker

1967:

Trade Martin

1967:

Strangers [as Azzek Tien Miljoen Had]

1971:

Topol [in film version]

1991:

Cab Calloway

1991:

Nolle Versyp [in Flemish Anatevka; Kon. Ballet van Vlaanderen]

1993:

Louchie Lou & Michie One [ragga version as Rich Girl]

2001:

Henk Poort [in new Anatevka]

2004:

Gwen Stefani feat. Eve [cover of Louchie Lou's Rich Girl; top 3 US]

2005:

Yidcore [Aussie punk]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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