Talk:Bei Mir Bistu Shein

message: If the name of the original song is "Bei Mir Bistu Shein" how come the current lemma is "Bei Mir Bist Du Shein"?  I mean, "Let's Misbehave" isn't filed under "Let Us Mis-Behave", either.  I'll move the article. Maikel (talk) 11:10, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would need to check the original sheet music of the song, but the title as given in Yiddish does have 2 separate words for "bist" and "du." -- kosboot (talk) 20:21, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lemma

message: Was the tune to "Bei Mir Bist Du Shein", with different lyrics, used for a Shasta (or some other soft drink company) TV commercial jingle in the late 1970s or early 1980s?
72.82.178.23 (talk) 09:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, Shasta used it for a root beer commercial in 1976. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arnt9IbvHO0  75.171.5.152 (talk) 02:08, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Shasta Jingle?

message: The lyrics link 
*Bay Mir Bist Du Sheyn Original lyrics in Yiddish
is broken as of March 25, 2009. Replacing with lyrics link at Wikisource  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.69.103.77 (talk) 21:48, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  broken link 

message: I can't really confirm who played these versions:
http://www.radioswissjazz.ch/cgi-bin/pip/html.cgi?lang=en&m=cdinfo&sid=84248e7704510d39719aab8eae6c39a331686 (listed here: http://www.radioswissjazz.ch/cgi-bin/pip/html.cgi?lang=en&m=entity&sid=32809508719f71c36e63492afc338e207dee1)
http://www.radioswissjazz.ch/de/songinfo/sid/9478b1b83fc1d12f4085a9bff478da355083 (the back of the CD: http://www.musicpower.ch/shop/cds/tremble.htm)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balihb (talk • contribs) 08:29, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  found on www.radioswissjazz.ch 

message: It seems that the original meaning of the line is thoroughly forgotten. In fact, the formula "bay mir iz" may be a possession clause :
בײַ מיר איז אַן אוצר - Bay mir iz an oytser - "I have a treasure". Some languages, like English  are of "habere" style, where the "possesed item" is a direct object. In other languages, such as Russian the posssessed item is the subject or the sentence, rather than the object: "U menia / est / sokrovische" ("At me / there is / a treasure"). I am not sure whether 'bay mir iz' is inherited from the archaic Hebrew or borrowed from Russian (definitely not from Polish, "(Ja) mam skarb" - "habere" style is used in Polnish). Anyway, I have an opinion  that the title in fact says "A have a pretty you", kind of "You are my pretty", although I have no proof to meet wikipedia standards of reference. Long time ago I've seen a book which thoroughly traces the history of both the tune and the lyrics to Yiddish folklore, but unfortulately I am failing to refind it.   Loew Galitz (talk) 00:11, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title translation 

message: This page attributes the translation to Sammy Cahn while the Vic Schoen page attributes that Schoen wrote it will Cahn coming on board later. Neither offer any citations. 
Additionally both pages are contradicting each other as to who introduced the Andrews Sisters to the song. And still, this page  states that Lou Rogers (trumpeter in Vic Schoen's band and future husband of LaVerne Andrews) was the one who found it.
UpgradeTech (talk) 03:49, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who Translated This Song to English? 

message: Does anybody knows if Spanish Civil War song "Sin Pan" ("No bread") is the same as "Bei Mir Bistu Shein"? The tune seems very similar but I don't find much about "Sin Pan", although it's often included in various Spanish  song collections dedicated to the Civil War. Maybe someone with good knowledge of 1930's Spain could clarify this moment? - 88.147.153.12 (talk) 20:44, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sin Pan 

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message: @Flask, it looks like you've done some excellent work on this article! If you end up taking it all the way to GA, I think the DYK hook  would do extremely well. Cheers,  talk 20:00, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Sdkb Thank you for your kind compliments! I agree that would be a good DYK hook for the article. I hope to expand and to polish this article a bit further next year before pursuing the GA nomination. — Flask (talk) 14:01, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential DYK