Everything about Tzena Tzena Tzena totally explained
"
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" is a
song, originally written in
Hebrew by
Issachar Miron (
né Stefan Michrovsky), a
Polish emigrant to what was then
Palestine but is now
Israel, and
Jehiel Hagges (Yechiel Chagiz).
Miron, born in
1920, left Poland at the age of 19, thus avoiding the
Holocaust. In 1941, while serving in the
Jewish Brigade of the
British forces, he composed the melody for lyrics written by Chagiz. The song became popular in Palestine and was played on the
Israeli radio.
Julius Grossman, who didn't know who composed the song, wrote the so-called third part of 'Tzena' about November 1946.
Gordon Jenkins made an arrangement of the song for
The Weavers, who sang it with Jenkins' orchestra as backing. The Jenkins/Weavers version, released by
Decca Records under catalog number 27077, was one side of a two-sided hit, reaching #2 on the
Billboard magazine charts while the flip side, "
Goodnight Irene," reached #1.
Cromwell Music Inc. claimed the rights to the song, and had licensed the Decca release. They alleged the music to have been composed by a person named Spencer Ross, though in reality this was a fictitious persona constructed to hide the melody's true authorship.
Mills Music, Inc., Miron's publisher, sued Cromwell and won. The presiding judge also dismissed Cromwell's claim that the melody was based on a traditional folk song and was thus in the
public domain.
The original English lyric, written by
Mitchell Parish, was greatly altered in the version recorded by The Weavers.
Other charting versions were recorded by
Vic Damone and
Mitch Miller's Orchestra.
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