Playing a south-of-the-border style known as “Ameriachi,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass released ten Top 20 albums during the sixties. Born in LA in 1935, Alpert began his music career writing songs with Lou Adler, including the Sam Cooke hit “Only Sixteen.” He founded A&M records with Jerry Moss in 1962 the label’s artists would ultimately range from the Carpenters to Cat Stevens to Janet Jackson and would include Alpert’s own group, the Tijuana Brass. Herb Alpert was a musical mensch on both sides of the business, founding the wildly successful A&M records and playing trumpet as one of its acts. It was followed soon after by “Baby Talk,” the bassline of which sounds an awful lot like “Into The Groove.” When “Baby Talk” rose up the Billboard charts, the Brooklyn-born Alisha gained the dubious distinction of being the first dance diva ever to be dismissed as a wannabe Madonna. “All Night Passion,” the first single, quickly became a dance club favorite. One of the many mono-monikered pop stars of the eighties, Alisha was only fifteen when her self-titled album became a hit in 1985. When two guys he knew in Boston invited him to be in a band with his old friend Steven, Kramer accepted, contributing both his simple yet powerful drumming style and the name Aerosmith. He hit upon the band name “Aerosmith” while still in high school, possibly inspired by Harry Nilsson’s album Aerial Ballet. As one of the few Jewish kids in a predominately Italian school, he hung around a group of tough older boys for protection these bigger kids eventually inspired him to take up the drums. Kramer, who counts Jon Bonham as a major influence, was born in the Bronx. Rumors abound (mostly on neo-Nazi websites) about the Jewish background of Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler, but whether or not Liv’s dad is a chosen person, it’s certain that drummer Joey Kramer was once a nice Jewish boy. In 1974 he brought over the British theatrical version of Rocky Horror and produced it as a film not long after, he began managing the careers of two stoner humorists named Cheech and Chong. The recordings made him a rich man, and he went on to found the label Ode, signing Carole King and producing her album Tapestry. Ever-foresighted, Adler eventually sold Dunhill to ABC in order to focus more on planning (and recording) the Monterey Pop festival. Dunhill found some success with the song “Eve of Destruction,” by two songwriters on the label, but its real triumph was in signing the Mamas and the Papas. Soon he and Alpert were writing songs together under the name Barbara Campbell, but the partnership ended in 1964, when Adler founded his own record label, Dunhill Records. Lou Adler began his career working with Herb Alpert, fellow member of the tribe, as co-manager of the surf group Jan and Dean. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the man who brought The Rocky Horror Picture Show to the American screen was also a rock manager.
The Forgotten Exodus, a campaign on the behalf of Jews who have had to flee Arabic countries, uses her image on one of its posters. Paula Abdul is often counted among the many half-Jewish American celebrities, but she’s actually one hundred percent: her father is a Syrian Jew, while her mother is Jewish and French-Canadian. Lakers, now the arbiter of our country’s talent on “American Idol.” Abdul began her career in music choreographing for Janet Jackson, but when Jackson complimented her voice, she used the earnings from her dance work to record “Forever Your Girl.” Four of the album’s tracks went to the top of the charts: “Straight Up,” “Cold-Hearted,” “The Way That You Love Me,” and “Opposites Attract,” which may be the only number-one hit ever to have a video co-starring a large animated cat in suspenders. Aaronson was raised in Brooklyn.įormer cheerleader for the L.A. In the early seventies he was a member of the band Stories, which scored a number-one hit with the interracial love song “Brother Louie” in the summer of 1973. Know of anyone who should be on the list, but isn’t? Add them! Tell us about them!īassist Kenny Aaronson has played with a long list of rock luminaries, among them Bob Dylan, Hall & Oates, Rick Derringer, Foghat, Sammy Hagar, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, and the Rolling Stones. It was lovingly, painstakingly compiled by Jewcy’s own Izzy Grinspan, and we now bring it to the public to help us fill in any remaining omissions. It’s a long, long list of every more-or-less bigtime Jew in music.
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