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“Domino” ©1990 by Karen Ellis
60 Traditional Children’s Songs, Games, Proverbs, and Culture From the United States Virgin Islands
45 minute Live Sound Field Recording ©1979
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I am Karen Ellis publisher of the Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc.

Nursery Rhymes are the foundation of reading readiness.
Understand the connection between speech, music and reading.
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/nursery-rhymes.html

Helped to produce the Movie “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” that documents the life and times of musicians known as The Funk Brothers and won 2 grammys 2003 and was nominated for best documentary.

JAZZ

How the Irish invented Slang by Dan Cassidy 

So…. I helped my friend Professor Dan Cassidy with research for his book

DAN CASSIDY: How the Irish Invented American Slang 
Find the Word origin of Jazz, Irish American Vernacular English and the hidden influence of Irish and Scots-Gaelic on what we call American English, and the history of Jazz.

Amercian Book Award Winner Dan Cassidy got help with my research on The Etymology of Jazz
Irish American Vernacular English.
It takes the gift of the goddess to reunite Karen Ellis, (David’s cousin) the key 1982 “gin-i-ker” citation from the 1940’s scholarship of Peter Tamony described by labor leader and folklorist Archie Green as “the keeper of the lore of the Irish clans of San Francisco.”; the internet, and Professor Dan Cassidy to connect the source of the word “Jazz” is from Kildare, Ireland.

David Goldenberg saved the first Jazz Sound Recordings

Sadly, I never met my Cousin on my Mother’s side David Goldenberg who  saved the first Jazz Sound Recordings
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/DavidGoldenberg.html

DAVID GOLDENBERG REMEMBERED 1938-2001
International Jazz Day 4/30 April Jazz Appreciation Month

David Goldenberg, 63, record collector
By William R. Macklin
[David Goldenberg was my 2nd cousin once removed.
This picture was taken March 2001, 4 months before he passed away. ]

David Goldenberg, 63, a pharmacist, record collector and film preservationist who accumulated a trove of more than 10,000 classic recordings and early-movie sound tracks, died Wednesday of complications after exploratory back surgery at Abington Memorial Hospital.

A Philadelphia native, Mr. Goldenberg had lived in Rydal for 18 years in a house that was part family home and part repository for thousands of thick, jet-black 78-r.p.m. records dating to the 1920s and ’30s.

A founding member of the Vitaphone Project, a group of collectors devoted to saving early movie sound tracks, Mr. Goldenberg made a significant contribution to film preservation recently when he provided the Library of Congress with the only complete sound-track discs for the classic 1933 film The Emperor Jones.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJAXpgYfcKU>

THE EMPORER JONES:
By murder & guile, a black Pullman conductor becomes THE EMPEROR JONES on an impoverished Caribbean isle.
Eugene O’Neill’s allegorical fable comes alive in this unique and intriguing film, recently restored by the Library of Congress. The legendary Paul Robeson dominates the film as a man who abandons his wife & Baptist upbringing to worship himself, wallowing gleefully in sin & violence as long as it furthers his goal for power & riches – the chance to become an emperor of his own tiny domain is merely the latest opportunity in a serendipitous sequence to be exploited.

Harold Nicholas – Emperor Jones (1933)
Harold Nicholas dance scene in “Emperor Jones”

“Finding lost pieces to these films is especially significant when you consider all the film that has been lost over the decades,” said John Newton, a friend and cofounder of the Vitaphone Project.

Mr. Goldenberg began collecting as a 14-year-old after hearing early jazz and popular music on the radio in the Upper Darby home of his father, a cantor at a local synagogue. The boy collector spent a nickel for each record. He blithely ignored friends and family members who pointed out that he did not own a phonograph.

“He said he knew someday he would have the money to buy a record player,” said his wife of 31 years, Eloise.

The cash value of Mr. Goldenberg’s collection has not been fully established, but then he never counted its worth in dollars. He focused on the collection and preservation of classic recordings and relied on the income from his work as a pharmacist to support his private passion.

After training at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Mr. Goldenberg served with an Army mobile surgical unit in the South.

After his discharge, he worked at pharmacies in Delaware and West Philadelphia. In his off hours, he haunted a West Philadelphia jazz club, an experience that only intensified his interest in collecting.

He became active with the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, and he mentored younger collectors.

Mr. Goldenberg worked 20 years as a pharmacist for the Albert Einstein Medical Center. He joined Express Scripts, a mail-order pharmacy in Bensalem, six years ago.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Rachel, and a brother, Joseph.

Funeral at 12:30 p.m. 7/22/01 at Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael-Sacks at 310 Second Street Pike in Southampton. Burial will be at Shalom Memorial Park in Lower Moreland Township.
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/07/21/obituaries/O-PGOLD21.htm [no longer works]

David did NOT donate his collection to Library of Congress only the disc was donated. Another rare disc was BOUGHT by the LOC. The rest of his collection was auctioned.

David compiled a book on how to dispose of your record collection for IAJRC International Association of Jazz Record Collectors. Goldenberg had been the Chairman of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors https://www.facebook.com/iajrc  housed in the Institute of Jazz Studies

IAJRC set up the David Goldenberg Memorial Library at Rutgers John Cotton Dana Library. And there is nothing on the Rutgers site that explains what happened to it or what it became.
185 University Ave.
Newark NJ USA 07102
Tel: (973) 353-5595
Fax: (973) 353-5944

Radio Compilation by David Goldenberg 1930-1960 housed at the University of Pennsylvania Library Schoenberg center for electronic text & image
Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive contact
https://www.library.upenn.edu/sceti/moved-sceti-collections

https://www.library.upenn.edu/sceti

David was President from 1989-91 and was a Trustee from 1978-83.
The archives were established by Gunnar A. Jacobsen before David died. After his death they honored him by naming the archive after him. The archives house, among other things, past issues of IAJRC Journals, books, records, copies of our recordings (both LPs and CDs) and miscellaneous papers.
Located on the 6th floor of Penn’s Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Room 453, this musical research library, international, and multi-lingual in scope, is a collection of approximately 5,300 Judaic sound recordings, in various formats (78, 45 and 33rpm, reel to reel and cassette tapes, compact discs, videos and DVDs).

Family Anecdote:

David Goldenberg was my 2nd cousin once removed, unfortunately we never met.

My maternal great grandfather Joseph Lichtman was responsible for bringing David Goldenberg’s family to Philadelphia from the Vincovitz & Zinkover area of the Ukraine in 1922. I’ve learned that Vincovitz is now known as either Vinkivtsi, Vin’kivci, or Van’kovichi or Van’kovitse (Van’kovichi), located 324.7 miles W of Kiev Ukraine Vinkivtsi is an urban-type settlement in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of the Vinkivtsi Raion, housing the district’s local administration buildings.

As a little boy, Sam Goldenberg (David’s father) was thrilled at seeing his first electric light and his first movie and later became an elementary school teacher, cantor and a choir leader. The 2nd Choir leader in the family.

After being told the story about David Goldenberg collecting jazz music and his repository / archive it struck me – how I have so much in common with my 2nd cousin David and how collecting music & singing runs in my family.

I am also a teacher, have collected music, and now have a connection with the etymology of jazz. My mother’s first cousin Gloria, a music teacher, has a daughter (my 2nd cousin) Marci, who inherited that big voice, has perfect pitch, sang in the opera and is now a cantor in N.J.

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