Behind the Scenes - Off the Record - Baruch Levine

we're calling this record off the record and the music that really i remember inspiring me and really talking to me growing up when i was a kid music that i listened to on a record [Music] this album is special because it focuses on the english classics and it's i think it's very important for today's generation to understand that jewish music has its roots we had feedback we had people proof listening because we had to go to print and we had people that call us and said after they listened to the gullis medley they had tears in their eyes they listened to the song throughout pray and sing and the little bird and dear nikolai and it takes you through a [Music] journey me and bark go back a long way and to be able to work with bark was something very special for me donnie gross i'm so happy that he agreed to take on the project it was a real honor to work with him we really went through every song here to be able to retain the feeling and spoke to you know the the writers themselves they'll be gunny bronberg you'll see green people that were involved in jeb previously [Music] golding the anguish of your children knows no hands reach out to us with your helping hands [Music] we worked long hours um staying very very focused to really first of all credit the people properly credit the composers the lyricist and to be really true to the words to the music those are messages that are timeless those are messages that are needed today those are messages that that we need there are 46 tracks on this album we almost had to make a double album because we hit the limiter of close to 80 minutes of music so there's a lot of music here a lot of information and in order to really absorb it you want to take that trip down memory lane these 46 tracks are divided into six medleys the real credits goes to the songwriters and the lyricists then who wrote the songs and that stayed with us and we're just humbled to try to carry it on to the to the next generation that it should be here forever [Music] we incorporate a lot of guest artists we had a great choir that came and everyone that came really came with the passion came with a connection to the song previously together we cry we hope and we pray let's bring [Music] really really honored to have benny friedman simple liner reevy schwabel ribby sang on we were looking before at some of these records and his name is there is soloist and of course joey newcombe was such a flavor this is absolutely one of my most favorite projects that i've ever worked on why because the nostalgic songs you know music doesn't get old the song's just as fresh as it was in 1977 or before that or a little after that and to come to the studio you understand it's not just hello i'm a [Music] singer [Music] the songs have a progression they have an order they start somewhere they get you somewhere so listen to an order and we'd love to hear your feedback i think it's something that everyone will be able to connect to i hope you guys enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it available now wherever jewish music is sold go out support jewish music it's something you'll enjoy off the record at barofliving.com let us know what you think and let us know what we should put on off the record too [Music] bring us home [Music] you