Jewish FunkeyMonkeys!, by FunkeyMonkeys!

Jewish FunkeyMonkeys!

by FunkeyMonkeys!

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1.	Ki Va Moed- A Holiday Is Coming 02:40	buy track
2.	Ma Nishtanah - The Four Questions 01:53	buy track
3.	Od Yishama - The Wedding Niggun 01:48	buy track
4.	Shalom Rav - Song of Peace 02:24	buy track
5.	Oseh Shalom 02:44	buy track
6.	Eili Eili - My God 00:47	buy track
7.	Sabbath Prayer - Fiddler on the Roof 01:40	buy track
8.	Alef Bet -The Alphabet Song 01:12	buy track
9.	Ivdu Et Hashem B'Simcha 02:22	buy track
10.	Al Kol Eleh - All These Things 02:18	buy track
11.	Sh'ma Yisrael - Hear O Israel 00:56	buy track
12.	Jerusalem of Gold 03:00	buy track
13.	Bashana Habaa - Next Year 01:55	buy track
14.	Am Yisrael Chai 01:43	buy track
15.	Hinei Ma Tov 01:10	buy track
16.	Shabbat Shalom 00:55	buy track
17.	David Melech Yisrael 00:43	buy track
18.	Tree of Life 01:28	buy track
19.	You Shall Love 02:05	buy track
20.	Tatala and Bubula 00:33	buy track
21.	Chorshat Ha'Ekaliptus 01:19	buy track
22.	Hatikvah 01:04	buy track

about

Jewish FunkeyMonkeys! is the 3rd album from the FunkeyMonkeys; the NYC-based funk supergroup for children and families. Created and produced by Dora the Explorer composer, Josh Sitron.

The original inspiration for Jewish FunkeyMonkeys came in 2000, before the live band even existed. While recording music for Dora the Explorer with Boots the Monkey (the then 8-year old, Harrison Chad), the two started spontaneously jamming on a funny and funky version of 'Ma Nish Tanah: the Passover Four Questions song' in the recording booth (while waiting in between takes of Dora dialogue: 'bridge, gate, big red hill'.) Ah, show business.

After leaving Nickelodeon, Josh created the 1st FunkeyMonkeys album, in which a chorus of children funk their way through children's classics remade in house, disco, funk, hip hop, techno, reggae, and jazzy styles. The album was a hit, so Josh decided to do a Jewish one. Enlisting a dozen superstar kids from the Ramaz school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, along with the incomparable Carey White on lead vocals, Jewish FunkeyMonkeys was recorded in the fall of 2002.

Two years, 22 songs, and a cast of thousands later, the new CD is finished.

The song selection is very eclectic and from all over the Jewish cultural map. There are Holiday songs, secular songs, reform, orthodox, hasidic, english, hebrew, yiddish, instrumental, religious, non-religious, Israeli, Debbie Friedman, and of course, Fiddler on the Roof songs.

Done in the spirit of inclusion, Jewish FunkeyMonkeys is for everyone. You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy it thoroughly.

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released January 1, 2006

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FunkeyMonkeys! New York, New York

Created by Joshua Sitron, composer for Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer, the FunkeyMonkeys are a supergroup of professional musicians, comedians, and teachers, based in New York City, who produce eclectic music and live shows for kids and parents. Think '"The Muppets performing Free to Be", "Seinfeld meets the Wiggles" or Randy Newman & Quincy Jones make some edgy children's music. ... more