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Goldfarb in Reno
Everyone knows the Dreidel Song: I have a little dreidel, I made it out of clay, and when it's dry and ready, then dreidel I shall play. Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay, oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, then dreidel I shall play. Not too many people, though, know that Samuel E.… -
Botbol’s Moroccan Hits
Enjoying this new Botbol CD on a snowy Sunday afternoon. No liner notes, though. Darn! But it does include the well-known Yah Rayah by Dahmane Harrachi: Hey, immigrant, where are you going? Sooner or later you will come back exhausted. Many ignorant people regretted this before you and me. How many overpopulated countries and empty… -
Listening to Hachemi Gerouabi
What better on a relaxed holiday day than listening to Hachemi Guerouabi, grand master of chaâbi music (people's or folk music) from Algiers? Chaâbi came from working class areas in Algiers' casbah. Its singers generally were city people displaced from rural areas. They took melody from the classical Andalusian music that came to North…
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