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Miserlou (Egyptian Woman) - Misirlou

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Published on 20 May 2023 / In Folk / Folk

"Misirlou" is a folk song from the Eastern Mediterranean region. The original author of the song is not known, but Arabic, Greek, and Jewish musicians were playing it by the 1920s. The earliest known recording of the song is a 1927 Greek rebetiko/tsifteteli composition. There are also Arabic belly dancing, Albanian, Armenian, Serbian, Persian, Indian and Turkish versions of the song. This song was popular from the 1920s onwards in the Arab American, Armenian American and Greek American communities who settled in the United States.

This version is a cover of Dick Dale's 1962 American surf rock version.

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Bass Electric
Backing Vocals SingingWomble SingingWomble
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Drums Acoustic cbgb
Keys Piano Electric - Rhodes
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thx1138
thx1138 4 months ago

junglejim - Hi James - Any chance you may wanna lend us your Basssurfboard on this one please ?

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Eric
Eric 4 months ago

Added a piano track, couldn't help it. Don't feel obligated. Oh, and to avoid adding a tile just for the dude shouting, I added something myself (for now). It's not very good so let me know if you don't want that.

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Eric
Eric 4 months ago

BTW, I don't mean to override the invitation for @SingingWomble. It's just that this collab hasn't been touch for quite a while so I'm assuming he's not active in BH(?).

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Eric
Eric 4 months ago

Great job on that collab guys. Not easy on the guitar so special shout out to you Frank / @thx1138 !

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Eric
Eric 4 months ago

If we get a real vocalist's recording later, it'll be easy to just keep the keys at the end (via negative trimming to prune my poor vocal performance and then offset the track to align the piano with the BT).

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thx1138
thx1138 4 months ago

@pcderic: Hey Eric ! Thanks so much for joining in on this classic ! Appreciate it. I have not heard from SW in a while. Your vocals fit this one great ! And your playing…Well it goes without saying that it perfectly fits this collab ! Really adds to the exoticness of the sound of this one ! Thanks so much ! Also thanks for the praise…I can admit this one was not easy to play…Hand me a guitar today - I could not do it ! I forget how to play songs rather quickly ! LOL ! Appreciate your time, talent and effort !

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Eric
Eric 4 months ago

@thx1138: Thanks to you! I know the feeling about forgetting. At least, we have recordings to help remember how we were able (or tried) to play the songs. Yeah, the picking is super fast. It must be hard to play this like you did!

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Eric
Eric 4 months ago

@thx1138: Hi Frank, could you republish? I decided to just keep the piano so I trimmed and realigned.

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thx1138
thx1138 4 months ago

@pcderic: Missiles Away !

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Eric
Eric 4 months ago

@thx1138: Thank you sir!

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thx1138
thx1138 2 years ago

Owenks - Awesome ! Track received and published ! Thanks so much ! Awesome ! Ridin' the Wave !

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thx1138
thx1138 2 years ago

Owenks - Hi ! I published your Daw...I hear you..and it sounds perfect ! I just do not see you in studio ??

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Owen Kellie-Smith
Owen Kellie-Smith 2 years ago

Thank you Frank! I thought it was a bit behind at the end and pla to redo it but I’m glad you like it :)

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SingingWomble
SingingWomble 2 years ago

I can hear it but not see it, also don't see it in DAW. Maybe you have to move the track back to the collab from Drafts, that's where I see it. Sounds great btw. :)

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Owen Kellie-Smith
Owen Kellie-Smith 2 years ago

@SingingWomble: Here's a new one in the studio

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Bob
Bob 2 years ago

Here's a start. Actually, quite hard for m to play. Not a lot of room for improv. Guys are right, Frank. Very clean guitar.

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thx1138
thx1138 2 years ago

cbgb - Surf's Up My friend ! Thanks so much ! Sounds great ! Thanks so much for the quick track and the nice words....These classics are not always as easy as they seem eh ?

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thx1138
thx1138 2 years ago

Lemme know if you need more volume..

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Bob
Bob 2 years ago

Volume is fine, Frank. Drumming on the other hand... Lol. Let's see how it sounds when bass comes in and BT gets dropped.

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