Program 7

One of my favorite archive episodes!  Enjoy!

1. MOHAMMED EL-BAKKAR & HIS ORIENTAL ENSEMBLE
Improvisation - 3:43
from the album Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer - Music of the Middle East, Vol. 6, 1966

2. GUS VALI & HIS CASBAH ENSEMBLE
Bachelerde - 2:12
from the album Dance Bellyrina Dance, 1963

3. THE FEENJON GROUP
Walla Dai (Arabic) - 3:52
from the album Recorded Live at Cafe Feenjon, 1966 (recorded 12/13/65)
(Marisa's note: One of my all-time favorite tunes!)

4. DJAMAL ASLAN
Ya Bint Ya Amoora (O Radiant One) - 3:09
from the album Lebanon - Her Heart, Her Sounds, no date given

5. ALEXIS & HIS ENSEMBLE
Bir Gun (Someday) - 3:08
from the album Exotic Dances For Wives and Lovers, no date given

6. IBRAHIM TURMEN
Yama Sawa - 2:06
from the album Saidi Wind Vol. 1, 1985

7. UNKNOWN MUSICIANS (POSSIBLY NICHOLAS EL DIK ORCHESTRA?)
Title Unknown! - 3:18
from the album Belly Dance! Music for an Oriental Dance, Vol. 2, 1973
(Marisa's note: This track personifies what is so frustrating about collecting belly dance LPs! The side this tune is on has 4 tracks, but only 3 are listed on the album cover. And of course, no musicians are listed either. So I have no idea who recorded this song (but it may well be the Nicholas El Dik Orchestra, I've since discovered), and I have no idea what the name of the song is, but it's one of the best ones on the album!! Arrgghh!!!! It's definitely a debke, though...)

8. RAYMOND MIRIJANIAN
Tsifte Teli - 3:18
from the album Ray Mirijanian's Music For Belly Dancing Vol. 1, no date given

9. YOUSSEF KASSAB, HAMOUDA ALI
Belly Dance Routine #2: Nay solo, elsamer, rumba, hebbina, nay takasim, dalal, accordion (balady), drum solo, finale - 20:02
from the album Belly Dance - A Gift from Cairo!, 1980
(Marisa's note: Youssef Kassab also recorded as Joseph Kassab on several LPs.)

10. THE SHEIK'S MEN
Lady Unveiling - 1:40
from the album The Belly Dancer, 1961

11. RAJA
Drum Sequence - 2:59
from the album Lebanon, 1980
(Marisa's note: I call this one the "disco/Star Wars bellydance drum solo"!)

12. OZEL TURKBAS
Taksimler - 4:46
from the album How To Make Your Husband A Sultan, no date given

13. EDDIE "THE SHEIK" KOCHAK
Shifte Armany - 4:22
from the album Strictly Belly Dancing (Ya Habibi #2), 1973

14. EDWARD MEKJIAN & HIS ENSEMBLE
Hella Hella - 4:13
from the album Belly Dance Music from the Middle East Vol. 3, no date given
(Marisa's note: This one is hella fresh! Depending on the album, Mr. Mekjian went by either Eddie or Edward.)