The Music Was Always There | Baruch Levine | Backstage with Benny

my hat. Welcome, welcome to the podcast called Backstage with Benny, where we smoo and sing and fab with some of the most gishmaka people in the whole world. And uh this episode is brought to us by Atika men's clothing, the best non-iron that you will ever find in the whole wide world. And our kashik guests that we have the honor of wearing one of them now. I don't know. want another brand but >> the chances are very high50 >> the chances are very high when a guest sits down in this chair that he's wearing a tikka anyway our kasha guest today is worldrenowned composer singer and allaround great yid rabbi I used to call you rabbi >> used to be part of your title and it kind of fell off but I still call you rabbi because you are my rabbi my rabbi rabbi baruk lavine welcome >> thank you Benny thank you it's a real >> the crowd goes Pleasure to be here. I hear I hear the crowd going wild for you. And um it's an honor to sit and for bring with you. We always we work so much with each other and have good times and >> yes indeed. I have just one request first of all before we continue. We always start off the show we give so that it should be. So this dollar is yours. >> This one is mine. And we put in a pushka to have a it should be filled with mitzvah. Oh yeah. That one's that that's that's gonna be >> my money always gets stuck somewhere. [laughter] It's >> like horses is traffic. >> One thing I wanted a request from you for this episode, especially for this episode. I don't always make requests, but today I'm making a request >> in the Golden Crown. >> Yeah. >> You are one of the children in the Golden Crown. Yes. You are one of the voices of the children. Yes. >> And the Zadei, one kid says, "But Zadeie," and the other kid says, Mr. Freriedman. >> Yes. So, I would appreciate it if you would refer to me for the rest of this episode as Mr. Freedman. But Mr. Freriedman like you. >> I grew up in Toronto. We're very everything is very proper and you take off your shoes when you come in the house. And >> AB Ronberg also my neighbor in Toronto. Everything is you know auntie this, uncle that, Mr. Freriedman, Mrs. You didn't call your parents friends by their first name. It just didn't happen. >> So, uh, that's the one thing I'm requesting. Other than that, feel free, but just >> Okay, Mr. Freedman. >> Mr. Freriedman. Nobody not Mr. Freedman. >> Oh, Mr. Freedman. >> There we go. That's what I'm looking at. >> Milk and cookies. >> There we go. If you don't know what we're talking about, >> listen to it. >> I don't even know. I don't even know. I don't even know. I don't even know what you're doing with your life. Anyway, I didn't mean to start off so strict. First of all, Mazav on the capella music that you've been putting out now. Thank you for taking my job. I appreciate [laughter] it. >> We learned it took it took me so many years to listen and to how how your voice comes in. >> Oh, so I'm your Rev. Oh, listen Benny, I always say in Spir, we don't have regular snacks. We have snackapellas. >> Okay, [laughter] that's Yeah, >> very good. >> Yeah, you better watch. I'll give you a smackella if you want to. [laughter] >> Okay, >> so what's beautiful about this Nishmosi project acapellia is that you you first of all, I don't know if people know, >> you've been composing for what, like 600 years? >> Like ever since you were ab you composed? >> Since Yes. Since I was >> even before you were Abra. Even before Yeah. >> as a child before >> a child. I think so. >> I wouldn't I wouldn't want to sing the songs that I composed then. But uh >> what if we forced you? [laughter] >> Not too bad. It's not so bad. >> I was composing before I knew what it means to compose. I had a I had a keyboard teacher um Gilden. >> Yeah. Yehuda. and he was my teacher and he would, you know, come and there was one time where he actually gave me one of his gigs. He was um >> as a piano player as a he was a oneman band, Tommy piano >> and he was not feeling well and that's a whole story in of itself. I played as I showed up at a at a gig as a 10-year-old. My father bringing >> Oh, you forgot to say that little detail. You were 10 years old when he gave you his gig. >> Yes. >> Wow. and >> and I I think I did a good job. I think that people the clients were very surprised to see a 10-year-old show up and my father I still feel bad today is like my roadie shleing my equipment and but he was very happy that I that I was making some money. >> That's amazing. But um in one you know in our lessons I didn't really I couldn't really I never really read to this day I don't read music because I had the gift of playing by ear and I always kind of went ahead and just I know the song I'm going to play it and I started tinkering around and my father came down one day and he's like bar what what song is that? I said I don't know >> said I think you just you know composed the song and just kind of >> can I buy it? Is it for sale? The first song it's not it's nothing sophisticated. You want to hear it? >> Absolutely. I think we all want to hear it. All 10 million of us. >> I don't even know what keys should go. [music and singing] [music] [singing] It's like you're just going down with the chords. The chords were were simpler then, but I got a little better. >> There's no high parts. [singing] [music] >> [singing] >> Oel, [singing] I am speechless. >> If you were to to compose that song today, >> Yeah. What percentage of it would be different? >> It's a beautiful song. >> It's like I I guess I feel today songs that got a little more sophisticated maybe or just you can't just take a puk and like it's almost like you ask a child compose a song like >> Yeah. Yeah. That's a song. I think that's that's unbelievable. >> Thank you. >> So again, you were 10 years old when you wrote that? >> 10 or eight. Eight. Eight or 10. >> Eight or 10 or 10. Oh my goodness. Well, I'm just trying to think what I was doing when I was eight or [laughter] 10. >> Listen, it was I'm not going to say the other things I was doing when I was eight or 10, but I was composing music. >> You're playing ice hockey. >> We're playing. Yeah. 100%. >> All right. Growing up in Toronto for sure. Um I wasn't great, but I really enjoyed it. >> And in in Toronto, you have I say Toronto. I don't say Toronto, forgive me. Toronto. >> Toronto. That's how I say it. >> Yeah. Um, you had some of the greatest uh musicians, composers, singers. >> Yeah. >> Who would ever think >> Toronto? It was really I had very special opportunities with I mean my earliest opportunities. Schlomma Kalbach would come. His daughter was in my class in kindergarten and her her father would bring her to school. I definitely remember two or three occasions when he would sit with us in the circle and sing songs with us. >> Um >> that's wild. I was a little I don't know 5-year-old. >> Um >> you're sitting there going I could do that. >> I do remember when we're four or five years old. I just remember had a real like it was a memory that I still have. And then we had my father's kuso was AB Rottenberg at that time. So that gave me a lot of opportunity. You know, it is today someone you're putting out an album and you say, you know, you need a child soloist. And your neighbor says, you know, Benny, my son sings very well. Like, yeah, why not? You know, uh, we had Zale Newman in Toronto who was the producer of Yehuda. >> Yeah. >> I heard you're a big fan. >> Yes, I'm a big Yehuda fan. >> I wrote I wrote a lot of Yehuda stuff. Um, Mosha Yas was in Toronto. I don't know. I don't think I ever met him, but loved his. father used to play me the mama records. Put me to sleep with that. >> Did you sing on the marvelous mess machine or that was my >> I wasn't accepted. >> Marvelous Meos machine. >> It was a school project in where I went to school. >> They rejected you. Well, that's not >> It was only if you you had to be in sixth grade. [laughter] >> Meos alert. >> Very good. That is um it was only for sixth grade and up and I was in the fifth grade, grade five as we say in in Toronto. >> Oh, you were so close. >> I was very close. But I did have my chance at the Golden Crown. And then Journeys Two, I think it was, I sang Elufu, the child soloist. >> Yeah. You know how to play a piano? I don't know. >> Do you remember from when you were 10 years old? Uh, [singing] >> so my solo was if I said a real Canadian accent, if our [singing] mouths were filled [music] with song like the [singing] vast and mighty sea [music] and our tongues were ocean waves to sing a joyou [singing] me. That was my solo. >> Yeah. And >> you had of course AB teaching you all the phonetically how to pronounce the words. >> For sure. >> The English was Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And then um a year or two later was uh maybe my biggest solo I ever had more than anything. Big big big uh big Yeah. >> Yeah, it was. That's right, Ganon. Hamala Goel. Hamal, not Hamal Goyel. It's the Vegas 4 back then. It was Hamal. That's how we sung. >> Whichal? >> Thatala. Unbelievable. Oh well. [music and singing] Yeah. [singing and music] >> [singing] [music] >> because [music and singing] Abraham the shame [singing] of the shame of those [singing] Lord know [singing] the shame [music] of shame [singing] of [music and singing] the Oh, please do [screaming] get [singing] home. [music] If you know the song, it's thanks to Rabbi Barak. I actually I had like so much khalisha sadas a little bit because in Toronto then we didn't have any there was no organized choirs Toronto pure was already before my tofu of childhood and then began already >> begun >> had already begun >> oh >> had already begun in New York Miami New York whatever but I just I remember when they came to Toronto I once I once went to the dressing room where they're doing their backs the green room in between uh in intermissions and I just I I had to see what goes on there. I had to see it and I remember saw me like what are you doing here you know but we joke about it today. What songs do you remember from in Miami and that >> um my tufa I mean for sure >> claw together >> those albums >> what songs are what song what's the >> oh no >> oh see that he stole your move >> yeah I pro chances are I got the idea the words I don't know >> you wrote it first you were eight and you talk about >> I know you're probably right I probably didn't write it first he stole it from me >> there you go the words >> there you go >> um yeah cla all together. I love that. [singing] >> Let's do that song. Let's do that song. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. >> Yeah. What key are we on? >> Yeah. >> I think I know it. >> Elon, sing along. [singing] >> [music] >> for your Oh no. [singing] >> [music] [singing] >> Amen. [music] D [singing] but [music] I know [singing] [music] [music and singing] [music] I adore I know what you want to do. Yes. You know was about the songs in those days people say like you know today we don't want to be depressed when we listen to music right but they made you like ache that's the word I like to use like it made you when you sang songs about for Msiah are beautiful and they're very beseeching right there's a certain like a little bit of a pain not depression that like you know via >> [singing] >> want, you know, it was just a way to talk to that was like I try to still bring that into the music a little bit. [music] Yeshua [music and singing] Yeshua [music] Yeshua Yeshua. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hey. >> Yes, indeed. Wild time. >> We need to find that have a little >> Oh, I thought you wanted to sing the song [laughter] >> from Miami. >> Yeah. Wow. >> Here. Here. Look. Okay. Okay. Then you have it in your power. >> Yeah. I mean, music is really it's it's gone crazy. Totally crazy. >> Yeah. >> You know, crazy in a good way. Crazy in a not so good way. Crazy in a mus way. It just is. Baby Renberg always tells me says, "We can't stop Urita Syrus, but we could slow it down." And it's a very positive way like I'm very positive about wherever music is going, you know, because it is what it is. So let's let's influence it. Let's just, you know, >> 100% 100%. We have like uh an you know what I mean? Whatever it means. Anyway, so I see that you are looking at my suit the whole time ever since we sat down. So you know, as a as a performer and this, you know, you can't be hot and schwitzy and sticky on a stage. You need you need comfort. You need loose. You need light. I want to tell you, I mentioned it earlier as we started the episode. Atika men's clothing, atikaman.com. I went in there a couple of weeks ago. First of all, they have anything that you need. Talk about like yeshiva clothing, shirts, suits, pants, blazers, kapa. You're looking for a kapata. New kapata. >> Not yet, but maybe after this podcast >> if I can. I'm I'm going to try to convince you. Okay. 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Check it out on the website atikaman.com. Fill up your shopping cart. Check out, and you will not regret it. You will feel sharp. You will look sharp. And we will see you at the next wearing your Atika wardrobe. Thank you, Atika, for sponsoring the show. [music] This is the segment in the show where we play a game. And these are the rules of the game. Game. I don't make it up. Take turns picking a card. Read the word and sing the first song that comes to mind. Okay, you go first because you're the guest. >> Oh, what does it say? >> Thunder. >> Can you hear the thunder? Can you feel the pain? Right. >> Oh, yeah. >> Too many tragedies, disasters, so insane. I think D minor. Yeah. Go. Nothing [music] seems to last. People feel the squeezes on. It's really [music] a shame. Can you feel the thunder? Can you feel the pain? So many tragedies, disasters, so insane [music] to this terrifying trend. And everyone you talk to feels the same. [screaming] >> But many happy days are coming out. Won't you please listen to me? We will be singing, dancing, laughing. Everybody just your way [music] to sing. Mira, amazing wonders like no one's ever seen before. [music] Finally, the magic moment we have all been waiting for. Yes. Day after day [music] coming now. Would you please listen to me? We'll be singing, dancing, [singing] laughing. Everybody should wait and [music] see. Miracles, amazing wonder like no one ever seen before. Finally, the magic [music] moment we have all been waiting for. We have all been waiting for. We have all BEEN WAITING [music] FOR. WHAT about What about another song with thunder? >> Thunder. >> And when you hear a crash of thunder, >> don't you tremble out of fear. >> So you know who I am. >> That's the chorus, right? >> That's I mean that's >> that is the chorus. >> I have trouble with my words. They don't seem to come out clear. >> But I want you all to know me, [music] so I'll try. [singing] Baby, I asking one small question. It won't take up too much time. Can you tell me? [music] Can you answer? Who am I? Beautiful song. >> Oh yeah. Okay. Now I pick one. >> Not two, just one. >> Oh, okay. his blood. Give me that. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Next. God. We could do this for an hour. >> Light. Light. [laughter] A song about light. >> Light. So many lights. Yeah, exactly. 1 [music] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Light up the night. The candles burning bright. A festival of light here on Kan as a hope can [music] reach a common go with a fire in our soul. The light of Kanek [screaming] light up tonight. [music] The candles burning bright on the festival of nights here on Kaneka. Our nation as a whole can reach a common goal with a fire in [music] our souls. The light of >> last one. Is this the last one? >> Last one. >> Boro. [laughter] Okay. Bor. [music] Very good. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Give me a second. [singing] [music] for your [music] [singing] me. [singing] I for [music] so let's go back and sing some of the first songs that you composed that people know first of all Yehuda which song because of Zale Newman that's how you made the connection >> yeah again it's so much you know today I feel It's such a people send you compositions probably all the time, 10 times a day. >> It's my full-time job listening >> listening to music and I know you you do listen, which is amazing. I know Donnie Gross always says Benny listens to all the songs. Pretty incredible. It wasn't so easy to to get songs to people then. So my parents saw the um the talent in me, you know. I was very Yeshiva was yeshiva. School was school. It was there was no shortcuts. um great parents, you know, and but they wanted to help me with my talents. So every bay manim, you know, as I was getting older, they would rent a studio for me and I would make these demos. The first few for Yehuda. No, Zel Newman came to my house. He put on a tape recorder and I played a bunch of songs. Um $150 a piece. Yeah. Each song. What songs from like my first My first published song that came out was on Yehuda One. the picture of him with a there's a him and a lion. You would know the song. >> Try it. I mean, I know some of his songs. [music] [singing] >> What's the chorus? >> [singing] >> How old was you then? Also very young. >> 16. I was 13. He was 16. [laughter] >> It's like a It's like a Yeshiva project. >> Unbelievable. Right. And it was like it wasn't in the day where people had house studios. I mean, everyone had to he had to I don't know, go somewhere and record it. >> Yeah. >> And then I had a song on Yehuda 2. >> How did he pull that off that he made an album when he was 16? It wasn't like today. >> I don't know who found him. It was was really ahead of in a certain sense. We don't hear from him much today. Way ahead. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> He wasn't David Alvin Freed like a like a teenager who who wanted to put out >> music. How and he he did it >> and he made it happen. And I want to tell you that when I was a kid, >> I remember two concerts, >> three uncle Moshi came to town. I lived in Minnesota. I grew up in Minnesota. So it was not, you know, I mean, it wasn't the one of the main stops on the way, you know, to to superstardom. Uncle Moi came. I think I remember one time that I remember I remember actually in camp they told us Uncle Moshi's coming. And then Zale Newman came and he's like, I'm not Uncle Moi, but I'm his mitzvah man. And I was like, all right, that's pretty good. [laughter] >> We'll take what we can get. >> I'll take it. >> And he sat on his guitar and he said, but so we have Uncle Moshi. I remember Aram Fried came as as from what I remember in my childhood. came once. >> Wow. >> And that was, you know what I mean, the craziest thing in my life. And Yehuda. >> Wow. >> Yehuda came. >> He got around >> and he and he had he he played with tracks. Yes. >> His father >> sat on the side of the stage >> and played the tracks and he sang along and he had uh uh lightsabers and and balloons and beach balls and it was like such a crazy show. >> Yeah. >> With no band. We went and bought all his tapes that he was selling over there by the table. And since then, I'm like a I'm a Yehuda. >> Yehuda. Yeah, that's so he was really Yeah. And his third his fifth album I composed most of his songs. I think it was the fifth album. Hud and friends I had on there um yeah um that album and then that just recently on this nishmosi of these ac capella collections in the tora medley I had this song um a lot of I got a lot of regards from it. It was um [music] >> [singing] >> MS. [singing] [music] Yeah. Wrote that as a bucker. See that? >> Probably should songs. Yeah. >> Good. Then he very good. >> Then came ash. >> Then came ash. Yeah. Then came. Very good. >> Straight to the top. You know, you didn't take little baby steps. >> Um, >> what did you write on a You wrote your wrote >> I wrote Mahira. >> How's it go? >> It's a D minor day. Today we'll go to C minor. [singing] Jo [singing] [music] [singing] Hello. [music] [singing] Oh [singing] no. So [singing] we call you [singing] thinking that they were a little sad, a little a little achy. Yeah. But but it was again what's everyone you know we had the wall >> this one came out first. This is Yeah. Yeah. But it's right. We're saying in we're asking please it should be heard of course. So it's you could go both ways. >> So that was H1. >> H1 H2 already. I had I think I was already had just been married. >> So you wro >> So things got happier in my life. >> So I wrote a major song. [laughter] >> Beautiful. Hey yo. How's >> What are we doing again? G A. I can't play an A Gon. Okay, I'll transpose. Cheating right here. Okay, don't tell anybody. So, it's um Here we go. [music] >> [singing] [music] >> door. [singing] No. [singing and music] >> [singing] >> Coco [music] [singing] ite. is always [singing] [music] [singing] below. >> [singing] [music] >> Yeah. >> And then you put English lyrics. >> The English was before. >> The English was before. Cuz I was going to ask you why. I think it's the second time already that you recorded it. >> Yes. Both ways in English. Yeah. >> Like you have an affinity for the English and saying because it was composed first. >> It was composed first. It was that we did a when one of my years in Israel in the summer, you know, we're sitting there. We didn't go home. My parents didn't fly me home anytime I wanted. And I was there with a friend of mine, Rabbi Yehuda D. She's a Mcmanal now in five towns, very talented. And we did this kids album called Lost in Laserland. So it was the friendship song. And then when my I was going out with my wife, actually had a funny story. one of our on one of our dates. Um, again, I wasn't I didn't identify myself as someone in the music industry. I was a yeshiva baker and I was, you know, I composed songs. It was a hobby. It was something that I love to do. Make a little money on the side. Why not? And my wife, my then, you know, soon to be wife, we're in the Waldorf Atoria in New York City and she says, "I what does it mean you compose songs?" I said, "I I write tunes." And then she says, "But what do you mean more and David?" And I said, "They don't write they write some tunes, but a lot of tunes, you know, we write." So, we're passing by a piano and she says, "Um, can you compose one right now?" >> Wow. >> Wasn't this one. So, I said, "Give me words." And it was, she said, "Um, elk shama." Right. Just we just picked simple words then, right? Mhm. >> And I composed that song from my my Elohina Shama was composed there. Most of it I think definitely um [singing] [music] and I think you know a lot of the song was a long song and then um when we were getting engaged I just had a pre I had to you know if she knows me as a composer I got to write a song. What am I going to write? And I knew this friendship song was a good was a good tune. So I kind of this something that I rarely do. Usually you're writing a song, you're you're you're interpreting lyrics and you're you know expressing it in a tune perishim here. I took that tune and brought it to beas. Yeah. >> And it was a success. >> It was a success. We went into the car play I played the CD >> and she said yes. >> So I want to tell you that uh I listen to a lot of songs as you as you mentioned earlier. I'm really good about listening to to demos and I want to say that I I uh I I I decide very quick yes no yes no you know I mean and all totally begish >> and this way I have missed the opportunity to sing some very good songs because I heard it once and I go ah next next you sent meata >> really >> yeah you sent it to me you said this is a good song for labavature >> and I said yeah but they have >> it's a bad song but it's a good >> it's a great song but I heard it and I was like I I can't I I can't I can single varata. Um, and then you sent me >> It's interesting because that song I thought right away would be like a huge hit in Labich world. It is I'm singing it, but it was one second. One second. >> Right. That same feeling that I had was So that was a mistake on my part. I apologize. And then you sent me >> Yeah. >> And I was and I remembered David singing from the show. I think Reges sings it. And I was like David has one. I can't compete with David. Oh >> yeah. >> What an error. >> We have more chances. >> Amen. Let's do it now. Let's do it now. Write me a song. Alikes. I kind of [laughter] >> [music] >> Lord [singing] know [singing] by your >> [singing] >> He made aem. My a so >> [singing] >> Seamless concierge. My personal concierge that I use for all my concierge needs. One-stop shop for flights, hotel bookings, corporate travel, private aviation, luxury vacation, private chefs, drivers anywhere in the world and everything in between. From quick trips to fully planned experiences and excursions. One call and it's handled seamless. Up. That's the sound. You know, we can't go too long without uh learning Toyota. You know what I mean? So, we have a a minute over here on the show. We pick a card. any card. We pick a card and we read whatever it says over here in this is in Yiddish from is from the previous and it says like this is speaking in general to all to allen you have to have a clean mouth right before you make in the morning before you say before you say in the morning you have to rinse your mouth you have to make sure just the same the same way in order to to uh to celebrate or to you know what I mean lift yourself up with the words of you have to have a clean mouth shouldn't like dirty your mouth with with idle talk like negative talk shouldn't be moldy or whatever it is zen Especially a singer, especially a teacher, especially you have to make sure that your tool, your instrument is not with all types of this is a unbelievable thing. >> Yeah. Speaks about I think in also that a clean mouth a person watches the way he speaks. Then when he says something, it's a serve, you're serving delicious food on a very clean plate, which is very appetizing. Imagine you go to a restaurant, fanciest restaurant, they serve you something unbelievable, high-end, and the plate's dirty. >> So this is the plate has to be clean. >> You have to be very careful. First of all, [laughter] >> no, this is not the first time we've met actually. No, >> we actually have done tons and tons of work together. First Oh, [laughter] >> the first time I ever met you. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Ask you camp. >> You was it camp? No. I I I don't know. Could be. But for what what I'm remembering is we did a Shabas. >> Yeah. >> For Camp Morasha. >> Yes. Yes. And it with a concert on Sunday. >> The concert was Sunday and we were all together. Shabas. Oh my goodness. That is one of the greatest memories of my whole life. It was >> fantastic. Uh that was the first time I saw you and uh ever since then I just can't get enough. We did a lot of duets together. >> Lot of duets. >> We sang on the off the record. >> Yes. Yes. The the the medley. Two two medleys. Glo. We did the um a lot of these Jeep songs. um our brethren straight from the ways, right? >> Um we did I think we did. Yeah. Right. On the second one >> and then all these >> here we stand on solid ground with hearts of gold. His nation [singing] sold. [music] Together we all pray. Young and old [music] with hearts [singing] of gold. [music] Our hearts so still beat [singing] it on. They [music] sing out loud forever [singing] strong. May [music] your stand in our [singing] own land with hearts of [music] gold. Hearts of gold. Hearts [singing] of gold. [screaming] >> Oh yeah. >> Then we got all those all those duets the for for Betam and and Hold on tight. >> Hold on tight. And and Bonum like you mentioned. >> Yes. >> Which one? my hand long your way. They never go astray. They [music] know you as I know you except my queen. [music] Give me children. [singing] I never got to sing it with you or I never got to record it with you. But uh this also is a song as you know as and this is one of the [snorts] the uh you know the songs of cla yeah it's it's humbling I would say it's the it's a song that took me the shortest to write a message from the that we work we toil and we have plans and our careers and songs and we collaborate and then Hashem gives you one just like that and he says you you know, it's not going to be your toil and you're going to work. Everything you do is from me. We have to recognize that. That was the lesson the song taught me as well as, you know, being like an anthem for Cla and for the >> Sure. [singing] foreign [singing] king. [music] I'm [music] [singing] foreign. [singing] [music] [singing] [singing and music] [singing] >> [singing] [music] >> Long >> [music] [singing] [music] >> May you be to have all the in the world and tremendous from your children and your grandchildren and your great grandchildren >> for many should be as you my hat.