Program 50

Radio Bastet hits the big 5-0 with Toni Frangieh and Setrak Sarkissian, Naif Agby, John Bilezikjian, and so many more!  This program and #51 were saved by me before the big sound file loss of earlier this year, so my original intros and closings remain intact.  This is good or bad news depending on your point of view...

1.  BERT BALLADINE (MARY ELLEN DONALD, CHIEF MUSICIAN)

    Desert Dance - 5:47

    from the album Encore! Bert's Baladi, 1979

2.  ALEXIS & HIS ENSEMBLE

    Ask - 2:54

    from the album Exotic Dances for Wives and Lovers, 1966

3.  TONI FRANGIEH & SETRAK SARKISSIAN

    Faouk El Kheyl Kaddak El Mayass - 4:53

    from the album Belly Dance NIghts Vol. 2 (Layale Bourg El Hamam), 1977

4.  MOHAMMED EL-BERJAWAY ET. AL.

    Tabla - 6:18

    from the album Introduction to Instrumental Arabic Music, no date given

5.  ARTIE BARSAMIAN & HIS ORCHESTRA

    Tamara - 3:05

    from the album Shadows in the Casbah, 1959

6.  JOHN BILEZIKJIAN

    Sultani Yegah Sirto - 7:47

    from the album A Thousand and One Nights, 1977

7.  YOUSSEF KASSAB WITH THE SALIM SARWEH ORCHESTRA

    Bedouin Dance - 19:31

    from the album Bedouin Belly Dance, 1977

8.  JOHN BERBERIAN

    Sophig - 4:08

    from the album Echoes of Armenia, 1972

9.  EDDIE "THE SHEIK" KOCHAK & HAKKI OBADIA

    Dance Zarefah - 4/4 Ghawazee - 1:56

    from the album Special Silver Anniversary Album - The Best of Belly Dancing Vol. 1, no date given

10. THE TOPKAPI INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE

    Sheker Oglan - 2:55

    from the album Picture Yourself Belly Dancing, 1977

11. NAIF AGBY & THE LEBANESE RADIO ORCHESTRA

    Tony Ya Tony - 2:56

    from the album An Evening with Uncle Tanous, 1974