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Misirlou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Misirlou (Greek: Μισιρλού, "Egyptian Girl"; from Turkish Mısırlı , "Egyptian"; from Arabic مصر, Miṣr , "Egypt"), is a popular Greek song with a cult-like popularity in five very diverse styles of...
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Misirlou folk dance notes. ... Misirlou is named for Misiri, an Egyptian girl's name ... Misirlou, the tune, was published as sheet music in the 1930s by Nicholas Roubanis, a Columbia University musical scholar and professor. The words to the song are by Fred Wise, Milton Leeds, and S.K. Russell.
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One of the Rabbi’s songs was clearly Misirlou. A 15-LP limited edition of the highlights was released in the 1950s; only a handful of copies survive. ... Also, an oddity: while there weren’t too many R&B/African-American recordings of Misirlou, one of the few was a 1955 recording by doo-wop “bird group” The...
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Although they were Arab, they, like other performers, played the music of all the main cultures which made up the nightclub patrons—that included Greek music and Misirlou. During a performance, Dale was bet by a young fan that he could not play a song on only one string of his guitar.
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Listen to The Lively Ones – Misirlou for free. Misirlou appears on the album Hang Five!!!. There have been two groups that have called themselves "The ...
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Recordings of "Misirlou" ... "Misirlou" was published in sheet music form by Nicholas Roubanis in the mid-1930s. Roubanis was a musical scholar who published a book on the liturgy of the Greek Orthodox Church, but various sources also credit Milton Leeds, Fred Wise, Jose Rina, and others.
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Recordings of Misirlou ... John Adomono, Night at the Beachcomber, Decca DL 74097 ... Aki Aleong And The Nobles, Come Surf with Me, Vee-Jay SR-1060...
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You know, I don’t often post here saying “check out this YouTube clip”, but today I’ve got two, both featuring Dick Dale. The first one I saw was this interview, where Dick offers advice based on bitter experience that illustrates, Then serendipity led me to this 1963 video of Dick playing Misirlou.
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