# Musical and song rabbit-holes

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [January 24, 2023, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-and-song-rabbit-holes/978688 "2023-01-24T00:52:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-and-song-rabbit-holes/978688/10 "2023-01-25T22:20:20Z")

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> [@Treppenwitz](#):
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> Aside: when I posted part of this before, I have half a memory that @EinsteinsHund had an almost equally bizarre story about the Andrews Sisters’ _Bei Mir Bist Du Schön_. Have I got that right?

Well, you have a better memory than me, I only had a very dim memory of it and had to search the boards. But yes, I posted about “Bei Mir Bistu Schein” almost a year ago:

> [@Post the original versions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-original-versions/958879/38):
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> This reminded me of the other big Andrews Sisters’ song, “Bei Mir Bistu Shein” (alias Bei Mir Biste Scheen, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, etc.), which history I just heard about the other day on the radio and which has a similarly fascinating and convoluted history as “Rum And Coca-Cola”. It first started as a song in a Yiddish operetta before becoming the first big hit for the Sisters in the English version.

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