Radio Bastet hits the big 6-0 with Eddie Kochak, Youssef Kassab and a bit of Middle Eastern exotica from the one and only Martin Denny!  Grab that cocktail shaker and shake it!

1. MARTIN DENNY

The Girlfriend of the Whirling Dervish

from the album Exotic Percussion, 1961

2. GUS VALI & HIS ORCHESTRA

Medley Number Three: Sala Sala/Ahlaw Sahla/Gamel Gamel/Ala

Dole/Aghvoor Aghcheeg/Yaba Hei'Ya/Ala Mesbo Daog' Albee/Mimak/Tamara

from the album Belly Dancer Favorites, 1973

3. CLAUDE CIARI

Sa'Alouni Annass

from the album Habbeytak Bessayf, 1974

4. A. AZIZ

Rouayah El Djanna

from the album Chants et Musique D'Algerie, no date given

5. DIMITRI & HIS ENSEMBLE

Magic Nights (Nihtes Magikes)

from the album Greece, no date given

6. EDDIE "THE SHEIK" KOCHAK WITH FRED ELIAS & THE EL-MECCA ENSEMBLE

Belly Dancer (vocalist: Eddie)

from the album Ya Salaam - The New Amer-Abic Sound of the Middle

East, no date given

7. HESSEIN FADEL (ET. AL.)

Flirtation in 10/4 time (Sabah - Nye)

from the album "Takseem" ("Improvisation") - Authentic

Instrumental Music by the Most Famous Arab Artists, 1967

8. TAT' OUL AL'TOUN MIDDLE EASTERN ENSEMBLE

The Nile

from the album Exotic Belly Dancers, no date given

9. THE STEVO TEODOSIEVSKI ENSEMBLE

Nino, Nino

from the album Turkish Delight - New Sounds From the Near East,

no date given

10. ARMANDO TROVAJOLI

Dancing For You (from the film Dimmi Che Fai Tutto Per Me [Tell

Me You Will Do Everything For Me], 1975)

compiled on the CD Easy Tempo Volume 9, 1999

11. YOUSSEF KASSAB WITH HAMOUDA ALI

Full length dance routine: Nay Solo * Elsamer * Rumba * Hebbina *

Nay Takasim * Dalal * Accordion (balady)

* Drum Solo * Finale

from the album Belly Dance - A Gift From Cairo!, 1980

12. SERENA & THE SERENA ENSEMBLE

Petrified Snake (Serena's Cane Dance)

from the album Serena - Concert In Woodstock, 1976

13. THE SULTANS MIDDLE EASTERN BAND

Baglama Taksim (Improvisation)/Linda Linda (4/4 Beledi)

from the album String Wind And Percussion Volume 2, 1982