BEI MIR BIST DU SHEIN – ANDREW SISTERS

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‘Bei Mir Bist du Shein’ fever spread across the land. “It’s wowing the country,” reported one New Jersey paper. “They are singing it in Camden, Wilkes-Barre, Hamilton, Ohio, and Kenosha, Wis. The cowboys of the West are warbling the undulating melody and so are the hillbillies of the South, the lumberjacks of the Northwest, the fruit packers of California, the salmon canners of Alaska.” And it was a huge hit in Yorkville: “The Nazi bierstuben patrons yodel it religiously, under the impression that it’s a Goebbels-approved German chanty.

“I could say Bella Bella even say Vunderbar. Each language only helps me tell you how grand you are.”

Over in Germany, Hitler himself was a fan. Finally, the Third Reich had a tune it could hum to. At least, until it was discovered that the thing had been written by two Jews from Brooklyn..

Over the years, ‘Bei Mir Bist du Shein’ made millions of dollars for a lot of singers and record companies.