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Two foreign songs turn out to be beautifully bogus: Pink Martini's faux-French "Sympatique" and "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," a Yiddish swing hit as misinterpreted by a domineering beer-garden fraulein in an audience participation bit that proves, "South Park" to the contrary, that Germans can be funny.

The Jazz Scene: Hot Tones, Francophones Will Friedwald 2011

Later, at the age of only eighteen, she went on tour with the troupe to Paris and won the starring role in Dos Shempneyer Meydel (The Champagne Girl), a Yiddish-language operetta in which she for the first time sang the song that was to win her worldwide renown, “Bei Mir Bist Du Sheyn.”

Romanian Yiddish Theater. 2009

Those songs by the Andrews Sisters — “Rum and Coca-Cola,” “Oh, Johnny,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B),” “Bei Mir Bist du Schön,” et al. — are irresistible, and the contrast Taylor evokes between their wartime cheerfulness and intermittent images of soldiers dying remains powerful.

Pulling Itself Together, ABT Celebrates Tudor Centenary 2008

The song, is Wo Bist Du (Where are you) and is awesome. (but not my top five again)

dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008

"Bei Mir Bist Du Schon" had the concert audience clapping in time (if unhiply on the wrong beat); and at the close of the band's euphoric performance of "Swingtime in the Rockies," the Carnegie crowd let out a roar worthy of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom.

When Carnegie Hall Swung 2008

Those songs by the Andrews Sisters — “Rum and Coca-Cola,” “Oh, Johnny,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B),” “Bei Mir Bist du Schön,” et al. — are irresistible, and the contrast Taylor evokes between their wartime cheerfulness and intermittent images of soldiers dying remains powerful.

Pulling Itself Together, ABT Celebrates Tudor Centenary 2008

From Kurt Weill's cynical "Alabama Song" to Robert Stolz's "Du Bist Mein Greta Garbo," they played not only with perfect phrasing and color but with authentic articulation of the irresistible rhythms.

Music of the Weimar Republic -- 2007

Favorite Jewish tunes like “Tzena, Tzena,” “Belz,” and “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön” were performed on the same stage as numbers from Camelot, Guys and Dolls, and Fiddler on the Roof.

One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005

Favorite Jewish tunes like “Tzena, Tzena,” “Belz,” and “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön” were performed on the same stage as numbers from Camelot, Guys and Dolls, and Fiddler on the Roof.

One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005

Favorite Jewish tunes like “Tzena, Tzena,” “Belz,” and “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön” were performed on the same stage as numbers from Camelot, Guys and Dolls, and Fiddler on the Roof.

One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005