Jacob Jacobs
Jacob Jacobs (born Yakov Yakubovitsh) (January 2, 1890 – October 14, 1977), Yiddish theater and vaudeville director, producer, lyricist, songwriter, coupletist, character actor, comic born in Rosca (now Riska, Romania). In 1904 the family emigrated to the United States and Jacobs worked in a soda factory, later in a sheet-metal factory, and then learned tailoring. In 1907 he joined the chorus in a vaudeville theater and he sang couplets on Sundays, when vaudeville plays could not be presented. The following year he was hired as a vaudeville actor. In 1911 he was in his first play, Leon Kobrin's Yankel Boyla at the Odeon theater. In 1912 he became director of the Lyric Theater in Brownsville (Brooklyn), and then a partner with Nathan Goldberg in the Lennox Theater in Harlem. From 1926 to 1930 he was co-director of the National Theater, and subsequently the Prospect Theater in the Bronx. He wrote the music to his own couplets. He married Rebecca Treitler (Betty), daughter of the Yiddish theater director. In 1932 he collaborated with composer Sholom Secunda on a Yiddish musical comedy, I Would If I Could. Although the show was not a great success, it did produce a song that become a #1 hit, Bei Mir Bistu Shein. He wrote, composed and directed the Broadway show, "The President's Daughter" in 1970. He is buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, in the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance area. |
Birth and Death Data: Born 1890, Died 1977
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1916 - 1961
Roles Represented in DAHR: tenor vocal, lyricist, speaker, author, composer, songwriter
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Recordings (Results 1-25 of 153 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-19257 | 10-in. | 3/8/1917 | Chinka pinka | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-19258 | 10-in. | 3/8/1917 | Litvak and Galicianer | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-19259 | 10-in. | 3/8/1917 | Madlich | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-19719 | 10-in. | 4/27/1917 | Mine wife | Jacob Jacobs | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-19720 | 10-in. | 4/27/1917 | Shachna and Yachna | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20106 | 10-in. | 6/12/1917 | Fifty-fifty | Jacob Jacobs | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20107 | 10-in. | 6/12/1917 | Die motnia | Jacob Jacobs | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20134 | 10-in. | 6/19/1917 | Moisha Kapoir | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20146 | 10-in. | 6/21/1917 | Hello New York | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20147 | 10-in. | 6/21/1917 | A gris fin America | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20148 | 10-in. | 6/21/1917 | Yenta gait zech regestin | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20149 | 10-in. | 6/21/1917 | Moisha Kapoir muft | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20940 | 10-in. | 11/1/1917 | Gam se l' toiwo | Jacob Jacobs | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20941 | 10-in. | 11/1/1917 | Men shokelt sich | Jacob Jacobs | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20942 | 10-in. | 11/1/1917 | A gett | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-20975 | 10-in. | 11/13/1917 | Ales bam fetter | Jacob Jacobs | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-21110 | 10-in. | 11/22/1917 | I should worry | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-21111 | 10-in. | 11/22/1917 | Hot nit chosena | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-21127 | 10-in. | 11/30/1917 | Gimpel bainish | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-21589 | 10-in. | 3/19/1918 | Chad gadyo | Jacob Jacobs | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-21594 | 10-in. | 3/21/1918 | The gambler | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-21861 | 10-in. | 5/17/1918 | Milchuma zivishen litta in Galitzia | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-21862 | 10-in. | 5/17/1918 | Goodbye Kaiser | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-22049 | 10-in. | 6/27/1918 | Die Polisha chosena | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal | |
Victor | B-22050 | 10-in. | 6/27/1918 | Dame rabbins nisem | Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | vocalist, tenor vocal |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Jacobs, Jacob," accessed November 2, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/107058.
Jacobs, Jacob. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 2, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/107058.
"Jacobs, Jacob." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 2 November 2024.
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External Sources
Wikipedia: Jacob Jacobs
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LCNAR: Jacobs, Jacob, 1890-1977 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94033248
Wikidata: Jacob Jacobs - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17421415
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/31223952
MusicBrainz: Jacob Jacobs - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0d9e119e-c903-48aa-b93e-3441a25c091c
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