#safam

My parents used to play their CDs in the car until they started skipping and I've never heard anyone else ever talk about them? For those who don't know them, look them up! They're a Jewish American band from the 70s and here are my favorite songs of theirs in order from most to least:

Just Another Foreigner (One of my all time favorite songs)

Tribute (Sad but sweet)

Leaving Mother Russia (the ending lives rent free in my head)

World Of Our Fathers (finding a good quality version on youtube is unfortunately very hard)

Bad Choices (sounds like a sitcom opening in the best way)

Nachamu Ami

Judah Macabbee (funky)

This is a song I remember from when I was a kid. 

Along with Debbie Friedman, Safam was something of a soundtrack to my young New Jersey Jewish life. Through their songs I first learned about global Jewry beyond my particular suburbia, heard my first versions of a number of Jewish standards like “Dodi Li” and  “L’Cha Dodi,” and discovered that the Judah Maccabee fandom had a lot of members. I still remember most or all of the lyrics to many of their songs.  This song is the one I remember best, though. I was reminded of it because of the Klezmer ask. 

This song isn’t Klezmer, it’s much more folk, though it does have some obvious Klezmer influence.