A_JEW:
I want to pickup on a subject you touched on btw, which is the difference between Michoel's and the other Yiddishe only tapes like Yonoson and YM Kahana.
For a tape to be a success there is always a first impression, before one can actually listen thoroughly and evaluate it, that plays a big role in the minds of potential customers. In a normal music tape where most songs are based one one sentence (posuk, selicha, yotzer, medrash, chazal, or eben ezra!) there is only the tune or melody that has to appeal to the listener. Whereas songs that are lyrics based there is also the unfamiliarity of the words AND the message that plays a role in the first impression.
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In the case of YM Kahane and Yonoson they took old popular melodies to accompany the lyrics, so the listener only had to evaluate the content of the song and its message (and the same is true for many of Reb Yom Tov Ehrlich's songs which were known melodies [even though he composed many of them]).
However Michoel's selection of songs has 'increasingly' been from previously unknown or little known melodies, which makes it with one step harder for a person to enjoy or even get the feel of it. ( I say increasingly because on his first Neshoma Flam I think he did have some old-time songs).
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