I went down to Berkowitz-Kumin<\/em> The song bombed when I sang it at a nursing home. Worse, I strained my vocal cords. I could hardly talk for three weeks.\u00a0 My wife thought I was avoiding her. About the only thing I said was \u201cI don\u2019t want to hose down the garage.\u201d<\/p>\n I tried cough drops and tea. The internet advised me not to talk for two full days. The first day I sat through two family breakfasts. The first breakfast was at an Ann Arbor restaurant with my younger son, and the second was at a pancake house in Toledo with my older son. My sons didn\u2019t talk. They never do. My wife carried the ball. I went <\/span>to a party and brought a bag of cough drops and a bottle of water. I said, \u201cWhat are you up to?\u201d That\u2019s all I had to say. People answered at length. And if anybody asked me, “How\u2019s the band?” I said, \u201cStill playing. What else are you up to?\u201d<\/p>\n My throat got<\/strong><\/span> better, but it took at least two years. What worked: Ayr salt water spray and gel (up the nose). That’s the best thing for dry weather. An ENT friend told me about the Ayr of my ways. I had been getting ultrasounds of my throat at the Cleveland Clinic. No help. Just go into Discount Drug Mart and get yourself some Ayr saline mist and gel.<\/p>\n I wrote a song based on “St. James Infirmary” about the local funeral home: I went down to Berkowitz-Kumin To see my baby there They said I could not view her No open casket It\u2019s a Jewish affair. The song bombed when I sang it at a nursing home. Worse, I strained my vocal cords. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26044,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26020\/revisions\/26044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n To see my baby there<\/em>
\n They said I could not view her<\/em>
\n No open casket<\/em>
\n It\u2019s a Jewish affair.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"screw](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screw-up-241x300.jpg\")
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