Name your favorite Journeys song.

honey36

Wed, Jun 09 2021, 6:36 am

Hashem_Yaazor wrote:

I love many but I walked down to Lulay Sorascha.
A few of my kids are working on learning to play The Place Where I Belong, so so beautiful.
My husband walked down to Ilu Finu... Also very pretty.

😆 I also walked down to ilu finu! I loved it because it was like an expression of how thankful I was at that moment! Plus I loved the tune- I wanted something slow but not too "kvetchy". It was perfect!

I also grew up with journeys. Love all the songs.

My mother never liked the chasunah song, she thought it was insulting.😆 I love it though!

Crookshanks

Wed, Jun 09 2021, 6:49 am

Ihatepotatoes wrote:

That's the Abe Foxman story, right?

Yes. Amazing story. The Man from Vilna is one of my favorite songs too.

pizzapie

Wed, Jun 09 2021, 8:29 am

Mama Rachel, Jo DiMaggio's card, neshamala, lulei sorascha are some of my absolute favorites. My (relatively young) kids know many of the songs too!

Moonlight

Wed, Jun 09 2021, 9:00 am

I created a play list on Amazon music with just journeys songs and I shuffle it. This is my go to every day

shanarishona

Wed, Jun 09 2021, 11:08 am

In addition to what I posted previously:
Luley Sorascha (although I didn’t appreciate it as a kid)
And, how could I have forgotten-
Of course,
Yerushalayim!!!!!

amother

Wed, Jun 09 2021, 6:28 pm

Yerushalayim the place to live
Yerushalayim Harim Saviv
Yerushalayim Ir shel shalom
Yerushalayim we're going home

Yerushalayim the sky's so blue
Yerushalayim we turn to you
Yerushalayim Ir shel Shalom
Yerushalayim we're going home...

I rememebr as a kid, we once put on a show for our mothers and we sang this song. This was my solo:
Where else in this world can you find a wall,
Whenever you touch it- it ouches you
Reach for the stones, they're moist with the tears
Of our hopes and our dreams that we know will soon come true

amother

Camellia

Wed, Jun 09 2021, 6:30 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

My sisters MIL wrote the words to this song and abie bought it from her

amother

Wed, Jun 09 2021, 6:43 pm

amother [ Camellia ] wrote:

My sisters MIL wrote the words to this song and abie bought it from her

Really! I didnt know that.

I heard that Abie did not compose the tune to the Torah song (I was made way back in 1842), and Dreams come true. Anyone know if its true?

ETA;
Found this: THE PLACE WHERE I BELONG- Journeys- Attributed to R’ Hershel Goldstein,
Popularized By R’ Shalom Schwadron, English Lyrics By Abie Rotenberg- Journeys 1 (Same tune as Chasal- Lev V’nefesh 1)

cbsp

Wed, Jun 09 2021, 6:58 pm

amother [ Camellia ] wrote:

My sisters MIL wrote the words to this song and abie bought it from her

I remember hearing it at a woman's concert (possibly a taste of music?) to a different tune (slightly different start of the lyrics to the song as well) well before it made it to Journeys.

Definitely a favorite song of mine, but for that reason I have a hard time classifying it as a Journeys song

ETA was the author Dinah Storch?

amother

Thu, Jun 10 2021, 5:06 am

For all Abie Rottenberg fans, (and which one of us isn't??) here is a little known song that I discovered a few months ago. https://youtu.be/ebB0VIGs2UU

Soul-stirring. Warning, once you listen to it, you may find yourself playing it all day.
It is a tribute to R Eli Teitelbaum.

amother

Hotpink

Thu, Jun 10 2021, 9:11 pm

Teardrop (probably my favorite. I can't listen without crying)
Memories
Ride the Train
Neshamala (I love playing on the piano)
Sfashfenaz

Does anyone have a copy of the play Journeys that RCCS put out around 10 years ago? Chayayitty Pollack and 3 other ladies were high school classmates who had a reunion many years after they graduated. All the songs were from Journeys. If you can get your hands on it, it's worthwhile. We LOVE it.

dorothy1

Thu, Jun 10 2021, 9:15 pm

Moonlight wrote:

Huh? How can someone else make a journeys cd?

Sorry for late reply-

It’s Abies cd, Doni Gross is just the producer (same as he produced the newest Aish CD, uncle moishy, joey Newcomb many others ...). He was on a podcast recently and was talking about it as well as an off the record 2

amother

Thu, Jun 10 2021, 9:22 pm

amother [ Hotpink ] wrote:

I watched it. It was a great trip down memory lane.
They also did a play with MBD songs.

penguin

Thu, Jun 10 2021, 9:59 pm

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Btw, Abie Rottenberg also wrote a few books. He wrote a novel about a frum major league baseball player called Pepsy Meyers..

What other books did he write?

amother

Thu, Jun 10 2021, 10:12 pm

penguin wrote:

Quote:

Btw, Abie Rottenberg also wrote a few books. He wrote a novel about a frum major league baseball player called Pepsy Meyers..

What other books did he write?

You know, I thought I saw recently that he wrote a book on Tehillim or something similar. But I googled it now and apparently I mixed it up with someone else. Sorry.

amother

Thu, Jun 10 2021, 10:17 pm

penguin wrote:

Oh, I see
Eliyahu Hanavi, under his full name Avraham Yom Tov Rotenberg

That was it!! Thank you. I knew I had seen it but then I starting doubting my memory.
How did you find it?

amother

Fri, Jun 11 2021, 12:12 pm

penguin wrote:

Oh, I see
Eliyahu Hanavi, under his full name Avraham Yom Tov Rotenberg

Thank you.
I just bought this book for shabbos reading. So excited:)