Umm Kulthum
[1904?-1975]

Sonodisc -SONO 141
P. 1990

Title: Gamalek Rabena Yesido...[78 rpm's 1931-1934]

01 Gamalek Rabena Yesiedo [5:59][1931] Jihar kah?-Taqtuqah
02 Ellail Yetoul We Ye Kedny [5:51][1931] Rast-Taqtuqah
03 Shagany Nouhak [5:52] [1934] Bayati-Munuluj
04 El Azoul Fayek We Rayek [6:08][1932] Iraq-Taqtuqah[AAA-027 (V)]
05 Elly Habbak Ya Hanah 5:53 [1931] Rast-Taqtuqah[AAA-025 (III)]
06 Yama Amaar Al Forak 6:09 [1931] Hijaz kar kurd-Munuluj[AAA-025 (III)]
07 Alely Emta Kalbek Yteeb [6:02] [1931] Shuri?-Taqtuqah
08 Malak Ya Kalby [5:31] [AAA-027 (V)] [1931] Kirdan-Taqtuqah

[AAA-027, vol. V, is a bit "noisier" and in variant speed?]

composer:

Zakaria Ahmad,1-8

lyrics:

Hasan Sobhi, 1,4
Hasan Helmy, 2 [Husayn Hilmi al-Ministirli]
Ahmed Rami, 3,5-8

genre:

see individual tracks above

maqaam:

see individual tracks above

dialect:

x

recorded:

see individual tracks above

First Performance:

x

First recording:

Sono Cairo?

alt. transcriptions:

x

duration:

(see individual tracks above)

CD total time:

47:25

[Does not contain CD-liner notes]

Comment: Again one of the more confusing CD's to come out from Sonodisc France! Most of the composer and poet information on the leaflet accompanying the CD is wrong and the transcriptions can at best be described as quaint. I am still not 100% sure that I have given correct information for the second to last track. Judge for yourselves, I assume that Alely Emta Kalbek Yteeb = Qalu li imta.