# Jewish Musicians to Crack the Top 40

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-musicians-to-crack-the-top-40/114644>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 18, 2002, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-musicians-to-crack-the-top-40/114644 "2002-06-18T03:49:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-musicians-to-crack-the-top-40/114644/21 "2002-06-18T22:10:47Z")

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Warren Zevon, I believe, is half-Jewish.  
Not sure just how successful ‘Werewolves of London’ was, but it had to at least crack the top 40.

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**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-musicians-to-crack-the-top-40/114644/22 "2002-06-18T22:29:12Z")

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I am pretty sure that Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman of Phish are Jewish…but I do not know if any of their records have cracked the Top 40.

I definitely remember hearing Jon sing a Hebrew folk song (“Yerushalayim Shel Zahav???” I prolly spelled it wrong).

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-musicians-to-crack-the-top-40/114644/23 "2002-06-18T23:54:43Z")

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Artie Shaw.

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**Author:** ![benlormat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@benlormat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benlormat)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-musicians-to-crack-the-top-40/114644/24 "2002-06-19T03:19:41Z")

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How can you forget **Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jew Boys**? (Well, some of them were Jewish).

Ben

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**Author:** ![benlormat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@benlormat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benlormat)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-musicians-to-crack-the-top-40/114644/25 "2002-06-19T03:22:03Z")

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My bad, Kinky never made it to the top 40. (But should have)

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**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-musicians-to-crack-the-top-40/114644/26 "2002-06-19T06:58:40Z")

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Mick Jones of the Clash was Jewish according to the mother rule. He had 3 or 4 top 40 hits and maybe one with BAD.

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**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-musicians-to-crack-the-top-40/114644/27 "2002-06-19T11:12:19Z")

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[http://www.yahoodi.com/famous/sing1.html](http://www.yahoodi.com/famous/sing1.html)  
There are more here, although I’m not sure about all of them.

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