In performances before a small audience, Carlebach usually performed alone.

Just him and the guitar "that awakens the strings of the heart and soul."

In the absence of another instrument to accompany him, he would precede his singing with a kind of musical introduction performed by whistling from his lips. The melodic whistling allowed him to add another musical dimension to the song.

In large performances, he was accompanied by an ensemble of musicians and backing vocalists, especially since his hippie period began. The ensemble members, young American men and women, looked like authentic flower children and gave him a "freaky" image. Ultimately, they also contributed to the conservative audience distancing themselves from him.

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Records, that's another story.

His major and famous albums were produced professionally, relative to the 1950s and 1960s.

Some of his albums were produced in advanced recording studios, relative to the period, and credit for the production was also given to a musical arranger.

The arrangements are simple and clean, with few instruments participating, and backing vocalists.

And each such arrangement adds to the emotionality emanating from the Carlebachian melody. Such was, for example, the arrangement for his famous songs "Lulei Toratecha" (Had Not Your Torah) or "Al Tira" (Fear Not).