It's archive show #69 gainin' on ya, featuring the splendiferous sounds of John Berberian, Bert Balladine, Raja, Georges Yazbek, and more besides! Don't say I didn't warn ya...

1.  GEORGES YAZBEK
    Folklore Baladi Rakess
    from the album Oud & Rhythms, 1980

2.  UNCREDITED ARTISTS
    Aneva sto trapezi mou
    from the album Karsilamades and Tsiftetelia Dances No. 6, 1981

3.  OMAR KHORSHID & HIS MAGIC GUITAR
    Enta Oumri
    from the album Tribute to Oum Koulsoum, 1989
   
4.  JOHN BERBERIAN
    Hale
    from the album The Dance Album, 1978
   
5.  SAFET GIOUNDEGIER
    Niavende Tsifteteli
    from the album O Ilios Tis Anatolis (Turkish Belly Dance), 1973
   
6.  GEORGE ABDO & HIS "FLAMES OF ARABY" ORCHESTRA
    Imm El Manadili (The Lady of the Veils)
    from the album George Abdo Live at the Averof, no date given
       
7.  ELIAS & ZIAD RAHBANI
    Bright Lights (Ya Mahla Nourha)
    from the album Belly Dance Fever, 1979
           
8.  GUS VALI & HIS ORCHESTRA
    Bird
    from the album The Greek Way, 1961
   
9.  BERT BALLADINE (MARY ELLEN DONALD, CHIEF MUSICIAN)
    Treasures
    from the album Encore! Bert's Baladi, 1979

10. YOUSSEF KASSAB WITH THE SALIM SARWEH ORCHESTRA
    Dakhlak Ya Tair Ali
    from the album Bedouin Belly Dance, 1977

11. EDDIE MEKJIAN & THE HYE ECHOES ORCHESTRA
    Ekhdiartza
    from the album Tamzara from Mekjian, 1966

12. THE ABDUL HASSAN ORCHESTRA
    Ode to Yonina
    from the album Arabian Affair, 1978

13. ERKIN KORAY
    Saskin
    from the CD Hava Narghile: Turkish Rock Music 1966 to 1975, 2001
    (originally released as a 45 rpm single, 1974)
   
14. HASSAN ABU SEOUD & HIS ORCHESTRA
    Music for Zeinat
    from the album Belly Dances from the Middle-East Volume 2, 1975

15. RAJA
    A Drummer and a Dancer
    from the album Dance Illusion, 1984

Say hello to archive show #68, featuring Eddie Adamis, Eddie Kochack, Eddie Mekjian, and so many more whose names are not Eddie! Shimmy on!

1.  EDWARD MEKJIAN & HIS ENSEMBLE
    Kurdili Karshilama
    from the album Belly Dance Music From the Middle East Vol. 3, no date given

2.  IBRAHIM TURMEN
    Holowa Dee
    from the album Saidi Wind Vol. 1, 1985

3.  TONI FRANGIEH (buzuk), SETRAK SARKISSIAN (tabla)
    Ya Medakdak
    from the album Belly Dance Nights (Layale Bourg El Hamam) Volume 2, 1977
   
4.  MOHAMMED EL-BAKKAR & HIS ORIENTAL ENSEMBLE
    Raksat Africa
    from the album Music of the African Arab: Music of the Middle East Vol. 3, 1958
   
5.  EDDIE ADAMIS ORCHESTRA
    Lour Lebnane
    from the album Middle East Goes Modern, 1963
   
6.  THE FUAD HASSAN ENSEMBLE
    Whirling Sands
    from the album Music of the Bedouin Bandits, 1959
       
7.  ARAM ARAKELIAN ENSEMBLE
    Izmir
    from the album The Oud, 1958
           
8.  YACOUBIAN & COMPANY
    Shish Kebab
    from the album The Glorious Greeks, 1963

9.  CHRIS KALOGERSON & THE ENSEMBLE SHARQI
    Shat Eskindria (The Beach of Alexandria)
    from the album Belly Dance!, 1979

10. ALI SROUR & HIS ORCHESTRA
    Rakset Alhowanen
    from the album Exotic Oriental Dances: Cairo By Night Vol. 1, 1976

11. EDDIE "THE SHEIK" KOCHAK
    Belly Dance Routine: Ma Elee (He Didn't Tell Me) * Cleopatra (Dance, Rhumba Tempo Medley) *
    Yett May Ess (My Life, My Love) * Chifti Telle (Chifti-Tempos-Takseems) * Balady (Drums-Zils-Derbekee Solos) *  Ah Yah Zein (Ja Zayer, Medley Fast Tempos)
    from the album Strictly Belly Dancing (Ya Habibi #2), 1973

12. GUS VALI & HIS ORCHESTRA
    Yiati Ylikia Mou Kles (Greek-Turkish)
    from the album And All Ports East, 1965

13. ABBUD ABDEL AAL & HIS GOLDEN STRINGS
    Aatini El Naya El Kalb Yachak Kol Jamil
    from the album Belly Dance for Arabian Nights, 1973
   

Welcome to archive show #67, featuring the likes of Kahraman, Lutfi Guneri, Omar Ben Jilali, and the "easy listening" king of vintage belly dance, Claude Ciari!  The Sabah tune I refer to in this show is a different one than the one that appears here; the original was lost in the Great Sound File Disaster of 2009. Sorry about that! And now, back to the show.  My, it's hotter than the Devil's Anvil in here!

1.  THE DEVIL'S ANVIL
    Treea Pethya
    from the album Hard Rock from the Middle East, 1967

2.  MOHAMED ABDEL WAHAB
    Ebn El Balad
    from the album Belly Dance Vol. 1, 1976

3.  OMAR BEN JILALI
    Ana Mzaouig (I Beg You)
    from the album Night in the Casbah, no date given
   
4.  TAT' OUL AL'TOUN MIDDLE EASTERN ENSEMBLE
    Welcome My Friends
    from the album Exotic Belly Dancers, no date given
   
5.  MICHAEL HARTOPHILIS & HIS ORCHESTRA
    Laziko
    from the album Greek Fire, 1966
   
6.  KAHRAMAN
    Layya W Layya (Bedouine Lila)
    from the album Flame of Araby - Music of the Middle East, 1958
       
7.  THE FEENJON GROUP
    Shishelai (Turkish)
    from the album Belly Dancing at the Cafe Feenjon, 1968
           
8.  SABAH
    Zakfi Ya Shabab
    from the album Best of Sabah -2- (CD reissue), no date given
   
9.  JODETTE (KAMELIA) WITH FAHID BALLAN & ABOUD ABDEL-AL'S ORCHESTRA
    Al-Asfoureyeh/Wain Aramallah
    from the album Songs for Belly Dancing, no date given

10. CLAUDE CIARI
    Ya Tayr El Wourwar
    from the album Habbeytak Bessayf, 1974

11. UNCREDITED ARTISTS
    Dark Eyes (El Asmarani)
    from the album Nights of the Orient, no date given

12. LUTFI GUNERI WITH ORIENTAL ORCHESTRA
    Aman Avci
    from the album Memories of Istanbul (Istanbul Hatiralar), no date given

13. OMAR KHORSHID & HIS MAGIC GUITAR
    Ka'an Azzaman
    from the album Belly Dance with Omar Khorshid & His Magic Guitar Volume 2, 1974
   
14. RAY MIRIJANIAN
    Hasapiko
    from the album The Ray Mirijanian Oud and Clarinet Volume 1, No. 1, no date given

15. THE KAYA ORCHESTRA
    Tamir Hane Dansi
    from the album Juliana Presents Belly Dance Music for the Connoisseur, 1977