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Let Us Now Praise ‘Nice Jewish Girls’

JL;DR SUMMARY Loudon Wainwright III's 1971 song "Nice Jewish Girls" serves as a humorous reflection on the singer's attraction to Jewish women, highlighting the quirks of 1970s music culture where album track sequences held significance. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityMemoir1970s MusicWordplayFolk MusicHumorCultural CommentaryNice Jewish GirlsLoudon Wainwright IiiAlbum Structure

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New York, United States
"The publication last week of Liner Notes, Westchester blue-blood Loudon Wainwright IIIs folksy anti-folk folk-hero memoirs, is as good an occasion as any to dredge up his impeccable 1971 anti-ballad semi-ballad, Nice Jewish Girls."

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