Side A
Artist	Song
Bob Dylan	All Along the Watchtower
Leonard Cohen	Who By Fire
Randy Newman	God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
Paul Simon	One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor
Steely Dan	Don't Take Me Alive
David Bromberg	Danger Man II
Country Joe and the Fish	Love
Norman Greenbaum with Dr. West's Medicine Show & Jug Band	How Lew Sin Ate
Lovin' Spoonful	Bald Headed Lena
Phil Ochs	Draft Dodger Rag
Warren Zevon	Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Billy Joel	Only the Good Die Young
Neil Sedaka	Lonely Night (Angel Face)
Neil Diamond	You Got to Me
Gefilte Joe & the Fish	Walk on the Kosher Side
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Lou Reed	Dirty Blvd
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers	Dodge Veg-O-Matic
Richard Hell & the Voidoids	Betrayal Takes Two
the Ramones	I'm Against It
Elastica	Car Song
Fountains of Wayne	Hey Julie
Beck	The New Pollution
Beastie Boys	Hey Ladies
the Strangeloves	Night Time
T. Rex	Mambo Sun
J. Geils Band	Whammer Jammer
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass	Casino Royale
Serge Gainsbourg	Ford Mustang
Sammy Davis Jr.	Too Close for Comfort
Allan Sherman	Shake Hands With Your Uncle Max

Comment:

Either a belated Hanukah present, or an early celebration of Christ's briss, a/k/a New Year's Day. A tribute to the rockin' members of the tribe (MOT). Definitions can be expansive -- after all, Elvis' great-great-grandmother was Jewish -- but I tried to stick with cases where the creative principal was a landsman, knocking out the likes of Bangle Susanna Hoffs and the Boss' Roy Bittan and Uncle Max. Also omitted are songwriters (Doc Pomus, Lieber & Stoller, et al), producers (Phil Spector) and businessmen (all of 'em). Kicked off by Madonna manager Guy Oseary's book 'Jews Who Rock,' but the last word clearly belongs to jewhoo.com. Apologies to Laura Nyro, Chris Stein, Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan, Friedmans Kinky and Dean, Manfred Mann (ne Lubowitz), Leslie West, that trio of Jews with Blues (Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield), Peter Green, Perry Farrell, the Clash's Mick Jones, Slash (ne Saul Hudson), Sylvain Sylvain, Doug Fieger, Danny Elfman, Robbie Robertson, Jim Croce (converted), Geddy Lee, David Lee Roth, Jorma Kaukonen, Eric Carmen, Randy Kalifornia, Flo & Eddie, Jay & the Americans and the Young Rascals. No apologies to Gene Simmons, Lenny Kravitz, Carly Simon, Carol King, Adam Sandler and -- it's a shonda -- Michael Bolton and Barry Manilow. For the record:
Dylan: from Isaiah 21.
Cohen: from Yom Kippur liturgy.
Steely Dan: Fagen MOT, Becker not.
Country Joe: mom Jewish, as were most of the Fish.
Spoonful guitarist Zal (Zalman) Yanovsky sings lead and on 'electric gorgle'.
Zevon: dad Jewish, mom Mormon.
Sedaka: Sephardic family name Seduka.
Diamond: dubbed 'the Jewish Elvis'.
Lou Reed's dad changed name from Rabinowitz.
Richard Hell born Lester Meyers.
Joey Ramone born Jeffrey Hyman.
Elastica's Justine Frischmann's is daughter of Auschwitz survivor.
FoWayne frontman Adam Schlesinger.
Beck: maternal grandmother only, but identifies as Jewish.
Geils: Peter Wolf and harpist Magic Dick (Richard Salkowitz) featured here.
Alpert + composer Burt Bacharach.
Gainsbourg born Lucien Ginzberg.
Sammy Davis: most famous convert.

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