![]() Sales of “Getzel,” while nowhere near “What It Was, Was Football” numbers, did help to keep the fledgling Banner enterprise solvent and allowed Rosenberg to purchase a one-time Miami Beach roadhouse and turn it into his homage to the beloved Roumanian restaurants he left behind on the Lower East Side.įuture Star of Stage and Screen: Andy Griffith launched his career with a novelty comedy record. However, even if “Getzel at a Football Game” was not the product of Rosenberg’s own high-octane imagination, his unique lapel-grabbing style monologist style made everything he did seem inexorably his own. 19, 1947 episode of “Forward Hour” on WEVD and credited to humorist Louis Markowitz. While it’s not clear who wrote the skit, a guess might be the author of the companion Getzel Banner 78: “Getzel at a Baseball Game.”Īround the same time the Banner disc was made, a longer version of the monologue, “Berl Bass Shpilt Baseball/Berl Bass Plays Ball” was performed by Zvee Scooler on a Dec. A dollar a ticket? But I see everyone grabbing a ticket and God knows what sort of bargain this is so now they have my dollar, too and they let me in.” Until I come to a place they wouldn’t let you in without a ticket. So, I’m on the subway up to the Bronx, something must be doing there so I run, too. I have a habit that when I see people running, I run, too. “ Look at them running! What kind of chaos is this? America, you rascal! Everyone’s running. Unlike Griffith’s later laconic amble, which consumed both sides of a 10-inch record, Rosenberg’s animated Yiddish-English antic declamation does it on one side. In late 1946, Banner Records was formed, and, thanks to the label’s musical director, Yiddish theater composer Abe Ellstein, Banner cornered the market on the reigning crème de-la-crème of Yiddish performing veterans: Michel Rosenberg, Moishe Oysher, Molly Picon, Maurice Schwartz, Myron Cohen and a dozen more (Out of all the indie Yiddish labels of this period, only Banner sustained a long enough run to create a hefty catalog of nearly 200 titles.)įor Banner B-2012, (their second release) Rosenberg turned to his most popular stage-tested character, a frantic, sputtering allrightnik named “Getzel,” who is plopped down in a stadium and then brilliantly describes what happened. New Jewish labels included Jubilee, Apollo, Laff and Sun. How a Yiddish theater mecca became ‘the church of rock ‘n’ roll’.He taught in the Alabama State University communications department from 1997 to 2014. The best I remember, over-zealous efforts to avoid words anyone else would use dropped the student’s grade by a notch, but the student still passed, and I hope retained some information that will stick with him.Ī longtime newspaperman, Coke Ellington worked for the Montgomery Advertiser from 1984 to 1997. I realized that the student had even paraphrased within direct quotes. I got the greatest feeling of accomplishment when I realized that “insect glimmer” must mean a “flea-flicker” play, one that involves a pass and at least one lateral.Ĭlearly I got across the point about never plagiarizing. “Field objectives” must be what we usually call “field goals.” If you think about colors, “coppery” clearly is a description of “auburn.” Realizing that the student had access to game statistics and some sort of synonym-finder – probably an electronic one and not an old-fashioned printed thesaurus – I managed to decode most of the story and grade it. Alex Kozan was an offensive guard, so that’s what “hostile protect” meant, and “hostile exertion” could translate to “offensive effort.” ANDY GRIFFITH FOOTBALL STORY FROM 1953 CODEThe second of those helped me break the code and decipher the story. ![]()
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