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

1. GUS VALI & HIS CASBAH ENSEMBLE

Bachelerde - 2:12

from the album Dance Bellyrina Dance, 1963

1. 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!)

1. DJAMAL ASLAN

Ya Bint Ya Amoora (O Radiant One) - 3:09

from the album Lebanon - Her Heart, Her Sounds, no date given

1. ALEXIS & HIS ENSEMBLE

Bir Gun (Someday) - 3:08

from the album Exotic Dances For Wives and Lovers, no date given

1. IBRAHIM TURMEN

Yama Sawa - 2:06

from the album Saidi Wind Vol. 1, 1985

1. 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...)

1. RAYMOND MIRIJANIAN

Tsifte Teli - 3:18

from the album Ray Mirijanian's Music For Belly Dancing Vol. 1, no date given

1. 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.)

1. THE SHEIK'S MEN

Lady Unveiling - 1:40

from the album The Belly Dancer, 1961

1. RAJA

Drum Sequence - 2:59

from the album Lebanon, 1980

(Marisa's note: I call this one the "disco/Star Wars bellydance drum solo"!)

1. OZEL TURKBAS

Taksimler - 4:46

from the album How To Make Your Husband A Sultan, no date given

1. EDDIE "THE SHEIK" KOCHAK

Shifte Armany - 4:22

from the album Strictly Belly Dancing (Ya Habibi #2), 1973

1. 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.)