Undies and musical drama

[Tourbeau]

So this turned into one of those rabbit holes, where you think "It's just one little YouTube clip" and then...

Katy (Kitty, Keti) Vintage Bellydance

From the 1949 film "The Egyptian Effendi"

WHAT ARE YOU DOING, KATY? Put the front of your skirt DOWN, please.

So I noticed someone asked for the name of the song in the comments. Probably because it sounds so familiar.

Apparently, Katy is lip syncing to Afaf Attiya singing "Hatouli wabour al hari'a" here, but about 8 years later, Faiza Ahmed recorded another version of it that became a bit more famous.

هاتولي وابور الحريقة - الكروانة / فايزة احمد

But it gets weirder. In 1957, Faiza Ahmed sang the song "Asmar ya asmarani" in the film "al Wisada al khalia."

أسمر يا أسمراني - فايزة أحمد

أسمر يا أسمراني - فايزة أحمد | أسمر يا أسمراني .. مين قساك عليا 🥺💔 ميعادكم بعد شوية مع فيلم "الوسادة الخالية" على #روتانا_كلاسيك | By Rotana ClassicFacebook

أسمر يا أسمراني .. مين قساك عليا 🥺💔 ميعادكم بعد شوية مع فيلم "الوسادة الخالية" على #روتانا_كلاسيك

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She expected it to be a hit, at least until somebody else in the movie got the same idea to record and release the song, namely Abdel Halim Hafez.

Abdel Halim Hafez - Asmar Ya Asmarany | عبد الحليم حافظ - أسمر يا أسمراني

So Faiza decided the best way to retaliate was to take an old song he had just reworked for his upcoming movie "Shari'a al hob" and release her version of it as a satirical dig.

عبد الحليم حافظ اغنية (قولوله الحقيقه)... من فيلم شارع الحب

But today, we still think of that song as "Ouloulou," so, sorry, Faiza. Mohammed Abdel Wahab called your voice "broken crystal." Riyad al Sunbati called you the "sweetest person to pronounce the letter H." Umm Kalthoum called you "the only female voice she heard with ecstasy." And you still got pwned by Abdel Halim Hafez. Twice.

 

[Shanazel]

Wow, Tourbeau! Interesting post. And you just carry all this stuff around in your head where you can retrieve it at a moment's notice? Wow, again.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING, KATY? Put the front of your skirt DOWN, please.

Belly dance/can-can fusion?

 

[Zorba]

So this turned into one of those rabbit holes, where you think "It's just one little YouTube clip" and then...

Katy (Kitty, Keti) Vintage Bellydance

From the 1949 film "The Egyptian Effendi"

WHAT ARE YOU DOING, KATY? Put the front of your skirt DOWN, please.

LOVE THOSE EARRINGS!!! Zorba want!

 

[Tourbeau]

Wow, Tourbeau! Interesting post. And you just carry all this stuff around in your head where you can retrieve it at a moment's notice? Wow, again.

I wish I had all this knowledge at hand! No, yesterday's rabbit hole was a lot of digging around on elcinema and ar./arz.Wikipedia, trying to sort out the timeline of when the various versions of these songs were recorded.

 

[Greek Bonfire]

I've used this song in a more modern but classical style by Cairo Orchestra. It's listed as Oolooloo. I would've never known it was called something else, but I've performed to it many times, and it's a fun song to dance to.