https://youtu.be/Vu4oOoziIosIn an earlier post I wrote that in 'The Ancient Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' the learned Hazzan, D.A. de Sola, identifies the Spanish and Portuguese tune for Lekha Dodi as deriving from what he believes to be its original 16th century setting.By the 1960's however, as is evident from the recordings made of the London community's congregational music by John Levy, this melody had been considerably streamlined, with virtually none of the characteristic melismata that appear in the transcriptions of either Emanuel Aguilar or Jacob Hadida left standing.Their absence, while undoubtedly making it much easier to sing, removes much of the sparkle and obscures the affinity of the London version to the wider family of the melody's variants, including those of New York, Amsterdam and North Africa.Please like and share.For an mp3 of this recording please visit my website, where there are over 70 selections available for downloading.http://danielhalfon.com/multitrack-recordings/