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

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Benny Friedman

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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 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 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.

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  1. 0:00my hat. Welcome, welcome to the podcast called Backstage with Benny, where we smoo and sing…
  2. 4:06showed up at a at a gig as a 10-year-old. My father bringing >> Oh, you…
  3. 8:46sixth grade and up and I was in the fifth grade, grade five as we say…
  4. 13:09>> yeah I pro chances are I got the idea the words I don't know >>…
  5. 18:32convince you. Okay. Belts, ties, socks. You can get socks there. Yes. And I'm wearing over…
  6. 24:23[music] for your [music] [singing] me. [singing] I…
  7. 28:28>> With no band. We went and bought all his tapes that he was selling over…
  8. 33:21[singing] below. >> [singing] [music] >> Yeah. >> And then you put English lyrics. >> The…
  9. 37:58>> [music] >> Lord [singing] know [singing] by your…
  10. 42:49brethren straight from the ways, right? >> Um we did I think we did. Yeah. Right.…

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