WFMU: Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from April 12, 2023

Listener comments!
	6:57pm listener james from westwood: In early to say hey, all!
	6:58pm Gary: Evening, James!
	7:00pm tim abdellah: Hi Gary and Friends!
	7:01pm Gary: Tim! Nice to see you
	7:01pm peter: Hello Gary & co.!
	7:01pm Gary: And Peter! The blogspotting gang is all here
	🇰🇷 7:01pm WR: Hi Gary, Bodegans Assembled.
	7:02pm TDK60: Hola Gary! Bodega is stocked.
	7:05pm Gary: Welcome, WR and TDK60!
	7:07pm Marc Nasdor: Poodlecannon in da house. This sounds terrific!
	🇰🇷 7:07pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Workin late tonight. Greets to all, loving the tunes!
	7:07pm Gary: Marc! What a wonderful surprise!
	7:08pm Gary: Threemoons! Yay!
	🇰🇷 7:08pm WR: Wondering what prerequisites there are to fully appreciate this episode. Cramming some Wikipedia reading....
	🇰🇷 7:08pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Thank you! Hoping for lots of Oum Kalthoum!
	7:09pm Marc Nasdor: Sorry I haven't been here in a bit.
	7:09pm Gary: ↳ WR @7:08 WR: I would grab the artist info (in Arabic) and search Discogs -- sometimes they have a bit about the artists there, and sometimes they have links to Arabic wikipedia, which you can run through Google translate
	🇰🇷 7:09pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: And for anyone looking for more info RE Oum Kalthoum, go grok the documentary "A Voice Like Egypt" -- in its entirety on YouTube here: www.youtube.com...
	7:10pm Gary: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜 @7:08 Oh, shoot -- no Oum Kalthoum tonight -- this episode is focused on what was whirling around her
	7:10pm TDK60: ↳ WR @7:08 WR, You do the learnin' for me, I'll sit back here with the hookah and herbal tea.
	7:10pm peter: that vocals on that first track reminded me of so many novelty polkas i have..
	7:11pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "My Wonder Land ارضي الجميله" by "Karim Shukry كري... aswan to hear this track so bad!
	7:12pm Jeff g. via app: Just amazing stuff
	🇰🇷 7:13pm chresti: Hi Gary bodega show!
	7:13pm Gary: NGH and Jeff!
	🇰🇷 7:18pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Gary @7:10 No worries; I'll let you make it up to us. :D
	7:19pm slugluv1313: Yallah, Habibi! looking forward to EGYPT! ❤️🇪🇬🤍🇪🇬💛🇪🇬🖤 greetings, Gary! Bodega patrons! away from comments (mostly) but listening and so loving this (and not even 20 minutes in yet!) 😺😺
	7:20pm Gary: Slugluv1313!
	7:20pm Webhamster Henry: This is hot stuff, Gary!
	7:21pm Gary: Webhamster Henry!
	🇰🇷 7:24pm chresti: All vinyls no less!
	7:26pm Gary: Chresti! Sorry, I missed you earlier
	🇰🇷 7:28pm chresti: ↳ Gary @7:26 That was only 13 minutes ago
	7:29pm slugluv1313: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜 @7:09 hi, Threemoons! you read my mind! 😺😺 i love "Fatma" too! from 1947, i saw it years ago (with English subtitles) at an Arabic film festival -- it is also on YouTube, but i could not find a version with subtitles
	🇰🇷 7:32pm chresti: That photo is from the 60s? It looks like it could be from the 50s
	7:32pm doctorjazz: Hello Bodega Shoppers!
	7:33pm Gary: The Doctor of Jazz is in!
	🇰🇷 7:33pm chresti: Hi doc! slugluv!
	7:34pm Gary: ↳ chresti @7:32 I found that photo doing a search for Cairo 1966, I think? Lemme see if the source page has any info
	🇰🇷 7:34pm chresti: Webham!
	7:34pm Gary: ↳ chresti @7:32 According to this page, it's from 1966 www.pinterest.com...
	7:37pm slugluv1313: ↳ chresti @7:24 hi chresti! right? vinyl! from Egypt!!! (yes i am totally geeking out here 🇪🇬😸)
	7:39pm TDK60: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:37 Yes, chresti, slugluv: It's great that we got records spinning as we type.
	7:41pm Gary: ↳ TDK60 @7:39 Full transparency: These records were spun on Saturday and Sunday, when I ripped them to FLAC files. I only have one turntable, plus most of these songs extend across both Sides A and B, so I join them in Audacity. But, yes, you are listening to vinyl spinning (and then digitally mediated)
	7:45pm northguineahills: ↳ Gary @7:41 almost cheating, but less cheating then when you started this show 9 years ago ;) Thanks, Gary!
	7:48pm Gary: This singer, btw, is Abdel Halim Hafez's older brother
	7:48pm TDK60: Gary thanks for the info. I'll keep imagining labels and spindles spinning for the good of humanity.
	7:52pm peter: As long as the music made its way off the records and onto the airwaves, I can’t imagine splitting hairs over the level of mediation involved! :P
	7:53pm slugluv1313: ↳ peter @7:52 i agree!
	🇰🇷 8:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hullo !
	8:02pm northguineahills: ↳ peter @7:52 musical media playback semantics at our wfmu?🙂
	8:04pm emily_w: Hello bodega!
	8:06pm Gary: RevRab and the FabFab Emily!
	8:10pm northguineahills: i've never studied arabic script. I'm ok w/ hiragana, i can plotz through cyrillic, but that's about it (i suppose I can phonetically make sense out of greek as well).
	8:14pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Gary, Bodegatrons
	8:16pm Gary: Coelacanth!
	8:16pm Marc Nasdor: Totally enjoying this week's show!
	8:21pm Zipperhead7: Hi Gary and Bodegans! Just finished watching "Los Olvidados" for the first time in decades. Surely one of the grimmest films ever made
	8:22pm Gary: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:21 Zipperhead! LOVE that movie, yes
	8:24pm Gary: Here's Abdel Latif al-Talbani's Arabic-language wiki page: ar.wikipedia.org...
	8:24pm northguineahills: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:21 not sure how I've missed that one, put another flick on the queue!
	8:38pm Zipperhead7: I wish someone would invent a self-lighting cigarette. I've lost thousands of lighters over the years and now have to light it on the stove and race outside. They don't give away matches anymore around here
	8:47pm northguineahills: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:38 sounds like a capital idea. I see no unforeseen consequences of such a device. To the copywrite office!
	🇰🇷 8:49pm Listener Gregory: Went to dinner and so missed the first half of the show. But the bar was playing the greatest hits of the 90s, so it was pretty much just like being here.
	8:49pm ?: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1327139
	🇰🇷 8:49pm chresti: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:21 Oooh I want to see that again! I had a cat named Jaibo.
	8:50pm Gary: Gregory! Exactly like the nineties just upside down
	8:50pm Dean: ?=me Odds are good that if you're thinking, "I wish someone would invent [x]," then somebody has invented x.
	8:50pm headcleaner: Egypt is the place to be!
	8:51pm Gary: ↳ Dean @8:50 Dean! That patent is expired, meaning we could all work together on executing it and MAKE A FORTUNE!
	8:52pm Gary: Headcleaner!
	8:52pm Dean: This is wild, because just this week I wrote a poem about a visit to Cairo that involves a reference to cigarette lighters!
	8:52pm TDK60: This Rushdi my fave cut so far.
	8:52pm Zipperhead7: ↳ @8:49 What a hoot! And 1920, just when Big Tobacco was really ramping up. Guess I'll focus on the inflatable dartboard and the electric book crusher to create more shelf space
	8:53pm Zipperhead7: ↳ chresti @8:49 I'll bet that cat was handsome and serious bad news?
	🇰🇷 8:59pm chresti: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:53 He was a skinny stray orphan- grey point Siamese that started visiting.
	9:00pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:38 Zipper, just install a cigarette lighter on the side of your house.
	🇰🇷 9:01pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Gary @8:50 Ha! I see I haven't missed the Egyptian cover of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." Will that be the final piece?
	9:02pm Zipperhead7: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:00 There ya go! Never thought about that. Duh . . . the bulb is dimming . . .
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: ..and as you're in the business install a cigarette vending machine. - and a coffee vending machine...
	🇰🇷 9:02pm chresti: ↳ Gary @8:50 Haha
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: maybe a lasagna vending machine...
	9:04pm slugluv1313: ↳ chresti @8:59 he sounds adorable and majestic 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
	9:05pm coelacanth∅: another option is to install a watertight box outside with a lighter inside that's attached by a theft-resistant cable of some sort; but that seems kind of lame next to the other options.
	9:10pm Listener Gregory: Puzzled by Gary’s suggestion we share our bad jokes. When has there been a bad joke on the comment board??
	9:10pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:10 Gregory, I meant "bad" as in "bad" "ass"
	9:11pm coelacanth∅: i've never seen one,Gregory
	9:11pm Zipperhead7: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:05 Or just a couple of flints and box of tinder so no one suspects anything. Artfully arranged, of course
	9:12pm coelacanth∅: there were a few bad ass jokes earlier today on Irwin's comments board.
	9:12pm Ike: Just got here. I'm eating tasty Egyptian leftovers from a place called AbuQir in Astoria where I went yesterday, so this seems apropos.
	9:14pm Gary: Ike! The seafood place on Steinway?
	9:14pm Zipperhead7: "Žižek's Jokes" has some howlingly bad jokes. Some are even badass
	9:15pm coelacanth∅: Zipper yes -good idea. - or you can hook up a line directly to the gas supply your stove works off, run it to your favorite outdoor smoking lounge by tiny pipe and just leave it lit indefinitely, like a pilot light.
	🇰🇷 9:16pm chresti: ↳ slugluv1313 @9:04 he was in his early teens I think- he was very talkative and - liked to bite your hand hard once in a while. Always hungry.
	9:17pm Ike: ↳ Gary @9:14 Yep! The shrimp was a little disappointing, but the calamari and bronzino were good and the scallops were excellent. And the eggplant w/garlic and vinegar is banging.
	9:18pm Gary: ↳ Ike @9:17 My controversial take: shrimp that isn't grilled and smothered in Vietnamese spices is always a little or a not so little disappointing
	9:18pm Zipperhead7: ↳ chresti @9:16 Sounds like Jaibo, alright
	9:19pm Listener Gregory: Shrimp is just a chunk of protein with little taste, IMHO.
	🇰🇷 9:19pm chresti: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:11 How about a cabinet outside?
	9:20pm Listener Gregory: The only bad ass joke I know involves Balaam, but most people don’t get the allusion, so I won’t tell it.
	9:21pm Gary: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:15 While it has been many years since I was a smoker, I like the idea of poles interspersed here and there with gas lines coming up through them that are sensor-activated so that when you get close to one, the flame goes on, as if offering to light your cigarette (or hair, if one is not careful)
	9:23pm coelacanth∅: shrimp is just a vehicle for cocktail sauce. it may as well be dolmas with cocktail sauce.
	9:23pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Gary @9:21 it's up to us to create that world
	9:24pm Zipperhead7: ↳ Gary @9:21 A friend was looking at mausoleums, and he had a choice of a "forever" flame, in which the gas was shut off when the bereaved departed (you had to call ahead to have it lit) and an "eternal" flame, which stayed lit 24/7
	9:24pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @8:50 so, rule 34 for patents?
	9:25pm Ike: ↳ Gary @9:18 I can understand this take.
	9:27pm Dean: Kind of rule 34, yeah, though I'm skeptical about rule 34 since 1) I don't view porn, I don't like porn, and so I have no idea what porn looks like; but 2) I know that I can come up with ideas for porn that will not possibly be anticipated online.
	9:27pm Hubig Pie: Mesa' Al-Khair.. Enjoying the sounds of the UAR
	9:28pm Dean: Patents, on the other hand (because my first hand is presently otherwise occupied), are fairly pedestrian, silly documents.
	9:28pm Gary: Hubig Pie!
	9:28pm Listener Gregory: These ideas for public cigarette lighters are horrible. If we don’t have Humphrey Bogart lighting the cigarette of a dame, what will happen to our culture?
	9:32pm Zipperhead7: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:28 When they moved the strike surface to the back, lighting one-handed became more difficult, but still possible.
	9:35pm Akiva: Hi Gary. You sparked some serious belly dancing in my household tonight.
	9:36pm Gary: Akiva! Welcome!
	9:38pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:28 Gregory, couldn't Bogart poosh (in a flirty way) the back of Katherine Hepburn or whoever's head toward the self-lighting pole?
	9:42pm Hubig Pie: Nasser changed Egypt which is Masr in Arabic to Goomhariya Al-Arabia Al-mutahida, The UAR. The name didn't stick
	9:42pm Listener Gregory: That does have a certain romance, I suppose.
	9:43pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:42 In an evidence-of-heat way, I'm thinking
	9:44pm Gary: Stick around after this program for Sam Segal's always-already terrific If You Lose Your Horse! Tonight's episode: "The Facts and Figures Just Hint at the Horse in Store For You" wfmu.org...
	9:45pm Zipperhead7: I found a playlist of Monica Lynch's most-played WFMU tracks. Great stuff! open.spotify.com...
	9:46pm northguineahills: ↳ Hubig Pie @9:42 there was that tricky thing about the UAR that included 'loose' political union w/ Syria (and for a while w/ the Yemeni Kingdom, aka north yemen)
	9:46pm Dean: toujours-déjà Heh, Derrida
	9:47pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @9:27 I'm w/ you w/ that one...
	9:47pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @9:28 haaa!
	9:49pm Hubig Pie: ↳ northguineahills @9:46 Ya, Nasser also promoted Pan-Arabism. That didn't stick either.
	9:50pm slugluv1313: ↳ chresti @9:16 yes, definitely a Jaibo!
	9:53pm northguineahills: ↳ Hubig Pie @9:49 that's what happens when you use teflon on your kitchenware!
	9:55pm TDK60: Great sounds tonight, Gary. Thanks.
	9:55pm Dean: I am an acolyte of Andrea Dworkin, of her work and her mission. I had the good fortune to meet her, and I frequently regret the loss of her skill and brilliance.
	9:56pm northguineahills: thanks, Gary what a tour!
	9:57pm slugluv1313: this is all so very very beautiful! one of the reasons i loved North African/Middle Eastern dance classes (& why i miss them so!) is that you are learning along with this incredible music 😺😺 definitely gotta listen again, for parts that i missed thank you so much for this exquisite dive into Egypt 1966, Gary!!!
	9:58pm Zipperhead7: Thanks for another delightful show, Gary! I found the damned lighter -- was pressed into service as a bookmark
	9:58pm Hubig Pie: Shukran for the tunes. Only got to hear the last bit , but it was moomtaz
	9:59pm Listener Gregory: Hmm, running out of time for the Beatles covers… Good show none the less, Gary. Thanks!
	🇰🇷 9:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ Gary ~
	10:00pm Gary: Night, everyone!
	🇰🇷 10:00pm chresti: Thanks Gary!
	🇰🇷 10:08pm WR: Thank you! Gary! A lot to absorb, will repeat listen for sure.
	3:14pm Jason Munger: Lovey show! The leyla gmail piece reminds me a lot of Ahwak by AHHafez Also do you know blond blond? I know not Egyptian but Algerian, I just found a cover by rachid Tasha of his hit “bomb atomique”

Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from April 12, 2023

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April 12, 2023: Egypt 1966
The year before the 1967 War, legendary singer Oum Kalthoum and composer Riad El-Sunbati released “Al Atlal,” generally recognized as the pinnacle of Kalthoum’s artistic career, and arguably one of the greatest songs of the 20th Century. This all-vinyl episode explores some three-dozen releases from the same tumultuous year, ranging from escapist twist, cha-cha-cha, and comedic novelties to gut-wrenching refrains of unrequited love and amped-up demonstrations of national pride.

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Bodega Pop	Intro "Intro" by "Bodega Pop"	Bodega Pop	2023			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Karim Shukry كريم شكري	My Wonder Land ارضي الجميله	My Wonder Land b/w Ramadan	1966	45		0:04:40 (Pop-up)
Sohair سهير	My Heart قلبي	My Heart b/w Mon Ammour قلبي / حبيبي	1966	45		0:08:26 (Pop-up)
Taghrid تغريد البشبيشي	Alafon Ba'on الف باء	Alafon Ba'on الف باء	1966	45		0:11:07 (Pop-up)
Lebleba لبلبة	Halli Galli هالى جالى	Halli Galli هالى جالى	1966	45		0:17:33 (Pop-up)
Samir al-Iskandrani سمير الإسكندراني	Once More It's You	Once More It's You	1966	45		0:23:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Suleiman Fathallah سليمان فتح الله	Once More It's You (Instrumental)	Once More It's You	1966	45	I've shared some of these tracks, and many others, at https://arabicsinglesgoingsteady.blogspot.com/
Galal Fikri جلال فكري	Hush Alrumush حوش الرموش	Hush Alrumush حوش الرموش	1966	45		0:31:44 (Pop-up)
Sana' Nada ثناء ندا	Farah Okhti فرح أختي	Farah Okhti فرح أختي	1966	45		0:38:49 (Pop-up)
Ismail Shabana إسماعيل شبانة	Wallah Wahishani والله واحشني	Wallah Wahishani والله واحشني	1966	45		0:44:28 (Pop-up)
Fayda Kamel فايدة كامل	Allah Ya Layl Allah الله يا ليل الله	Allah Ya Layl Allah الله يا ليل الله	1966	45		0:50:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Suleiman Fathallah سليمان فتح الله	Once More It's You (Instrumental)	Once More It's You	1966	45		0:58:33 (Pop-up)
Mohamed Taha, Khadra, and Fatma	Toubi Ya Nafs توبي يا نفس	Toubi Ya Nafs توبي يا نفس	1966	45		1:04:20 (Pop-up)
Fatima Hashi al-Somalia فاطمة حاشي الصومالية	Alhazu Alsaid الحظ السعيد	Ya'arisuna b/w Alhazu Alsaid ياعريسنا / الحظ السعيد	1966	45		1:11:43 (Pop-up)
Abdel Latif al-Talbani عبد اللطيف التلباني	Ya Mahni Del Aleusfurah يا محني ديل العصفوره	Ya Mahni Del Aleusfurah يا محني ديل العصفوره	1966	45		1:17:35 (Pop-up)
Sakina Ahmed سكينة أحمد	La7 el Fagr لاح الفجر لاح	La7 el Fagr b/w Yally 7abaybak Be3eed لاح الفجر لاح / ياللي حبايبك بعيد	1966	45		1:24:11 (Pop-up)
Mohamed Takrouni محمد تكروني	Ya'arisuna ياعريسنا	Ya'arisuna b/w Alhazu Alsaid ياعريسنا / الحظ السعيد	1966	45		1:27:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Suleiman Fathallah سليمان فتح الله	Once More It's You (Instrumental)	Once More It's You	1966	45		1:30:25 (Pop-up)
Ahmed Sami أحمد سامي	Eatshan Ya Euyun Habibati عطشان يا عيون حبيبتي	Eatshan Ya Euyun Habibati عطشان يا عيون حبيبتي	1966	45		1:35:05 (Pop-up)
Ahlam أحلام	Sibak Melhob سيبك ملحب	Sibak Melhob سيبك ملحب	1966	45		1:42:49 (Pop-up)
Ahmed Rushdi أحمد رشدي	'Agdae Salam أجدع سلام	'Agdae Salam أجدع سلام	1966	45		1:49:42 (Pop-up)
Aida al-Sha'er عايدة الشاعر	Habeet al Hob حبيت الحب	Habeet al Hob حبيت الحب	1966	45	AHA! This was the record that was actually published in 1967. This track is dated on the label as 1966, tho	1:57:19 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Suleiman Fathallah سليمان فتح الله	Once More It's You (Instrumental)	Once More It's You	1966	45		2:02:21 (Pop-up)
Nagat al-Saghira نجاة الصغيرة	Ana Bastannak أنا بستناك	Ana Bastannak أنا بستناك	1966	45	A rare live recording on 45 RPM	2:08:08 (Pop-up)
Sayed Ismail سيد إسماعيل	Alhabwu Fath Shibakah الحبو فتح شباكه	Alhabwu Fath Shibakah الحبو فتح شباكه	1966	45		2:20:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Suleiman Fathallah سليمان فتح الله	Once More It's You (Instrumental)	Once More It's You	1966	45		2:29:18 (Pop-up)
Faiza Ahmed فايزة أحمد	Al'ayam الأيام	Al'ayam الأيام	1966	45		2:33:16 (Pop-up)
Ibrahim Hamouda إبراهيم حمودة	Ealaa Kayfik على كيفك	Ealaa Kayfik على كيفك	1966	45		2:44:49 (Pop-up)
Layla Gamal ليلى جمال	Kalimat Tawdik كلمة توديك	Kalimat Tawdik كلمة توديك	1966	45		2:51:22 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Catrina Paslaru	Hei La Bodega "Hei La Bodega" by "Catrina Paslaru"	Hei La Bodega - Carnaval!	2000			2:58:15 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:57pm listener james from westwood: In early to say hey, all!
	6:58pm Gary: Evening, James!
	7:00pm tim abdellah: Hi Gary and Friends!
	7:01pm Gary: Tim! Nice to see you
	7:01pm peter: Hello Gary & co.!
	7:01pm Gary: And Peter! The blogspotting gang is all here
	🇰🇷 7:01pm WR: Hi Gary, Bodegans Assembled.
	7:02pm TDK60: Hola Gary! Bodega is stocked.
	7:05pm Gary: Welcome, WR and TDK60!
	7:07pm Marc Nasdor: Poodlecannon in da house. This sounds terrific!
	🇰🇷 7:07pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Workin late tonight. Greets to all, loving the tunes!
	7:07pm Gary: Marc! What a wonderful surprise!
	7:08pm Gary: Threemoons! Yay!
	🇰🇷 7:08pm WR: Wondering what prerequisites there are to fully appreciate this episode. Cramming some Wikipedia reading....
	🇰🇷 7:08pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Thank you! Hoping for lots of Oum Kalthoum!
	7:09pm Marc Nasdor: Sorry I haven't been here in a bit.
	7:09pm Gary: ↳ WR @7:08 WR: I would grab the artist info (in Arabic) and search Discogs -- sometimes they have a bit about the artists there, and sometimes they have links to Arabic wikipedia, which you can run through Google translate
	🇰🇷 7:09pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: And for anyone looking for more info RE Oum Kalthoum, go grok the documentary "A Voice Like Egypt" -- in its entirety on YouTube here: www.youtube.com...
	7:10pm Gary: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜 @7:08 Oh, shoot -- no Oum Kalthoum tonight -- this episode is focused on what was whirling around her
	7:10pm TDK60: ↳ WR @7:08 WR, You do the learnin' for me, I'll sit back here with the hookah and herbal tea.
	7:10pm peter: that vocals on that first track reminded me of so many novelty polkas i have..
	7:11pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "My Wonder Land ارضي الجميله" by "Karim Shukry كري... aswan to hear this track so bad!
	7:12pm Jeff g. via app: Just amazing stuff
	🇰🇷 7:13pm chresti: Hi Gary bodega show!
	7:13pm Gary: NGH and Jeff!
	🇰🇷 7:18pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Gary @7:10 No worries; I'll let you make it up to us. :D
	7:19pm slugluv1313: Yallah, Habibi! looking forward to EGYPT! ❤️🇪🇬🤍🇪🇬💛🇪🇬🖤 greetings, Gary! Bodega patrons! away from comments (mostly) but listening and so loving this (and not even 20 minutes in yet!) 😺😺
	7:20pm Gary: Slugluv1313!
	7:20pm Webhamster Henry: This is hot stuff, Gary!
	7:21pm Gary: Webhamster Henry!
	🇰🇷 7:24pm chresti: All vinyls no less!
	7:26pm Gary: Chresti! Sorry, I missed you earlier
	🇰🇷 7:28pm chresti: ↳ Gary @7:26 That was only 13 minutes ago
	7:29pm slugluv1313: ↳ Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜 @7:09 hi, Threemoons! you read my mind! 😺😺 i love "Fatma" too! from 1947, i saw it years ago (with English subtitles) at an Arabic film festival -- it is also on YouTube, but i could not find a version with subtitles
	🇰🇷 7:32pm chresti: That photo is from the 60s? It looks like it could be from the 50s
	7:32pm doctorjazz: Hello Bodega Shoppers!
	7:33pm Gary: The Doctor of Jazz is in!
	🇰🇷 7:33pm chresti: Hi doc! slugluv!
	7:34pm Gary: ↳ chresti @7:32 I found that photo doing a search for Cairo 1966, I think? Lemme see if the source page has any info
	🇰🇷 7:34pm chresti: Webham!
	7:34pm Gary: ↳ chresti @7:32 According to this page, it's from 1966 www.pinterest.com...
	7:37pm slugluv1313: ↳ chresti @7:24 hi chresti! right? vinyl! from Egypt!!! (yes i am totally geeking out here 🇪🇬😸)
	7:39pm TDK60: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:37 Yes, chresti, slugluv: It's great that we got records spinning as we type.
	7:41pm Gary: ↳ TDK60 @7:39 Full transparency: These records were spun on Saturday and Sunday, when I ripped them to FLAC files. I only have one turntable, plus most of these songs extend across both Sides A and B, so I join them in Audacity. But, yes, you are listening to vinyl spinning (and then digitally mediated)
	7:45pm northguineahills: ↳ Gary @7:41 almost cheating, but less cheating then when you started this show 9 years ago ;) Thanks, Gary!
	7:48pm Gary: This singer, btw, is Abdel Halim Hafez's older brother
	7:48pm TDK60: Gary thanks for the info. I'll keep imagining labels and spindles spinning for the good of humanity.
	7:52pm peter: As long as the music made its way off the records and onto the airwaves, I can’t imagine splitting hairs over the level of mediation involved! :P
	7:53pm slugluv1313: ↳ peter @7:52 i agree!
	🇰🇷 8:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hullo !
	8:02pm northguineahills: ↳ peter @7:52 musical media playback semantics at our wfmu?🙂
	8:04pm emily_w: Hello bodega!
	8:06pm Gary: RevRab and the FabFab Emily!
	8:10pm northguineahills: i've never studied arabic script. I'm ok w/ hiragana, i can plotz through cyrillic, but that's about it (i suppose I can phonetically make sense out of greek as well).
	8:14pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Gary, Bodegatrons
	8:16pm Gary: Coelacanth!
	8:16pm Marc Nasdor: Totally enjoying this week's show!
	8:21pm Zipperhead7: Hi Gary and Bodegans! Just finished watching "Los Olvidados" for the first time in decades. Surely one of the grimmest films ever made
	8:22pm Gary: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:21 Zipperhead! LOVE that movie, yes
	8:24pm Gary: Here's Abdel Latif al-Talbani's Arabic-language wiki page: ar.wikipedia.org...
	8:24pm northguineahills: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:21 not sure how I've missed that one, put another flick on the queue!
	8:38pm Zipperhead7: I wish someone would invent a self-lighting cigarette. I've lost thousands of lighters over the years and now have to light it on the stove and race outside. They don't give away matches anymore around here
	8:47pm northguineahills: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:38 sounds like a capital idea. I see no unforeseen consequences of such a device. To the copywrite office!
	🇰🇷 8:49pm Listener Gregory: Went to dinner and so missed the first half of the show. But the bar was playing the greatest hits of the 90s, so it was pretty much just like being here.
	8:49pm ?: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1327139
	🇰🇷 8:49pm chresti: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:21 Oooh I want to see that again! I had a cat named Jaibo.
	8:50pm Gary: Gregory! Exactly like the nineties just upside down
	8:50pm Dean: ?=me Odds are good that if you're thinking, "I wish someone would invent [x]," then somebody has invented x.
	8:50pm headcleaner: Egypt is the place to be!
	8:51pm Gary: ↳ Dean @8:50 Dean! That patent is expired, meaning we could all work together on executing it and MAKE A FORTUNE!
	8:52pm Gary: Headcleaner!
	8:52pm Dean: This is wild, because just this week I wrote a poem about a visit to Cairo that involves a reference to cigarette lighters!
	8:52pm TDK60: This Rushdi my fave cut so far.
	8:52pm Zipperhead7: ↳ @8:49 What a hoot! And 1920, just when Big Tobacco was really ramping up. Guess I'll focus on the inflatable dartboard and the electric book crusher to create more shelf space
	8:53pm Zipperhead7: ↳ chresti @8:49 I'll bet that cat was handsome and serious bad news?
	🇰🇷 8:59pm chresti: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:53 He was a skinny stray orphan- grey point Siamese that started visiting.
	9:00pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Zipperhead7 @8:38 Zipper, just install a cigarette lighter on the side of your house.
	🇰🇷 9:01pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Gary @8:50 Ha! I see I haven't missed the Egyptian cover of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." Will that be the final piece?
	9:02pm Zipperhead7: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:00 There ya go! Never thought about that. Duh . . . the bulb is dimming . . .
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: ..and as you're in the business install a cigarette vending machine. - and a coffee vending machine...
	🇰🇷 9:02pm chresti: ↳ Gary @8:50 Haha
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: maybe a lasagna vending machine...
	9:04pm slugluv1313: ↳ chresti @8:59 he sounds adorable and majestic 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
	9:05pm coelacanth∅: another option is to install a watertight box outside with a lighter inside that's attached by a theft-resistant cable of some sort; but that seems kind of lame next to the other options.
	9:10pm Listener Gregory: Puzzled by Gary’s suggestion we share our bad jokes. When has there been a bad joke on the comment board??
	9:10pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:10 Gregory, I meant "bad" as in "bad" "ass"
	9:11pm coelacanth∅: i've never seen one,Gregory
	9:11pm Zipperhead7: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:05 Or just a couple of flints and box of tinder so no one suspects anything. Artfully arranged, of course
	9:12pm coelacanth∅: there were a few bad ass jokes earlier today on Irwin's comments board.
	9:12pm Ike: Just got here. I'm eating tasty Egyptian leftovers from a place called AbuQir in Astoria where I went yesterday, so this seems apropos.
	9:14pm Gary: Ike! The seafood place on Steinway?
	9:14pm Zipperhead7: "Žižek's Jokes" has some howlingly bad jokes. Some are even badass
	9:15pm coelacanth∅: Zipper yes -good idea. - or you can hook up a line directly to the gas supply your stove works off, run it to your favorite outdoor smoking lounge by tiny pipe and just leave it lit indefinitely, like a pilot light.
	🇰🇷 9:16pm chresti: ↳ slugluv1313 @9:04 he was in his early teens I think- he was very talkative and - liked to bite your hand hard once in a while. Always hungry.
	9:17pm Ike: ↳ Gary @9:14 Yep! The shrimp was a little disappointing, but the calamari and bronzino were good and the scallops were excellent. And the eggplant w/garlic and vinegar is banging.
	9:18pm Gary: ↳ Ike @9:17 My controversial take: shrimp that isn't grilled and smothered in Vietnamese spices is always a little or a not so little disappointing
	9:18pm Zipperhead7: ↳ chresti @9:16 Sounds like Jaibo, alright
	9:19pm Listener Gregory: Shrimp is just a chunk of protein with little taste, IMHO.
	🇰🇷 9:19pm chresti: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:11 How about a cabinet outside?
	9:20pm Listener Gregory: The only bad ass joke I know involves Balaam, but most people don’t get the allusion, so I won’t tell it.
	9:21pm Gary: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:15 While it has been many years since I was a smoker, I like the idea of poles interspersed here and there with gas lines coming up through them that are sensor-activated so that when you get close to one, the flame goes on, as if offering to light your cigarette (or hair, if one is not careful)
	9:23pm coelacanth∅: shrimp is just a vehicle for cocktail sauce. it may as well be dolmas with cocktail sauce.
	9:23pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Gary @9:21 it's up to us to create that world
	9:24pm Zipperhead7: ↳ Gary @9:21 A friend was looking at mausoleums, and he had a choice of a "forever" flame, in which the gas was shut off when the bereaved departed (you had to call ahead to have it lit) and an "eternal" flame, which stayed lit 24/7
	9:24pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @8:50 so, rule 34 for patents?
	9:25pm Ike: ↳ Gary @9:18 I can understand this take.
	9:27pm Dean: Kind of rule 34, yeah, though I'm skeptical about rule 34 since 1) I don't view porn, I don't like porn, and so I have no idea what porn looks like; but 2) I know that I can come up with ideas for porn that will not possibly be anticipated online.
	9:27pm Hubig Pie: Mesa' Al-Khair.. Enjoying the sounds of the UAR
	9:28pm Dean: Patents, on the other hand (because my first hand is presently otherwise occupied), are fairly pedestrian, silly documents.
	9:28pm Gary: Hubig Pie!
	9:28pm Listener Gregory: These ideas for public cigarette lighters are horrible. If we don’t have Humphrey Bogart lighting the cigarette of a dame, what will happen to our culture?
	9:32pm Zipperhead7: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:28 When they moved the strike surface to the back, lighting one-handed became more difficult, but still possible.
	9:35pm Akiva: Hi Gary. You sparked some serious belly dancing in my household tonight.
	9:36pm Gary: Akiva! Welcome!
	9:38pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:28 Gregory, couldn't Bogart poosh (in a flirty way) the back of Katherine Hepburn or whoever's head toward the self-lighting pole?
	9:42pm Hubig Pie: Nasser changed Egypt which is Masr in Arabic to Goomhariya Al-Arabia Al-mutahida, The UAR. The name didn't stick
	9:42pm Listener Gregory: That does have a certain romance, I suppose.
	9:43pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:42 In an evidence-of-heat way, I'm thinking
	9:44pm Gary: Stick around after this program for Sam Segal's always-already terrific If You Lose Your Horse! Tonight's episode: "The Facts and Figures Just Hint at the Horse in Store For You" wfmu.org...
	9:45pm Zipperhead7: I found a playlist of Monica Lynch's most-played WFMU tracks. Great stuff! open.spotify.com...
	9:46pm northguineahills: ↳ Hubig Pie @9:42 there was that tricky thing about the UAR that included 'loose' political union w/ Syria (and for a while w/ the Yemeni Kingdom, aka north yemen)
	9:46pm Dean: toujours-déjà Heh, Derrida
	9:47pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @9:27 I'm w/ you w/ that one...
	9:47pm northguineahills: ↳ Dean @9:28 haaa!
	9:49pm Hubig Pie: ↳ northguineahills @9:46 Ya, Nasser also promoted Pan-Arabism. That didn't stick either.
	9:50pm slugluv1313: ↳ chresti @9:16 yes, definitely a Jaibo!
	9:53pm northguineahills: ↳ Hubig Pie @9:49 that's what happens when you use teflon on your kitchenware!
	9:55pm TDK60: Great sounds tonight, Gary. Thanks.
	9:55pm Dean: I am an acolyte of Andrea Dworkin, of her work and her mission. I had the good fortune to meet her, and I frequently regret the loss of her skill and brilliance.
	9:56pm northguineahills: thanks, Gary what a tour!
	9:57pm slugluv1313: this is all so very very beautiful! one of the reasons i loved North African/Middle Eastern dance classes (& why i miss them so!) is that you are learning along with this incredible music 😺😺 definitely gotta listen again, for parts that i missed thank you so much for this exquisite dive into Egypt 1966, Gary!!!
	9:58pm Zipperhead7: Thanks for another delightful show, Gary! I found the damned lighter -- was pressed into service as a bookmark
	9:58pm Hubig Pie: Shukran for the tunes. Only got to hear the last bit , but it was moomtaz
	9:59pm Listener Gregory: Hmm, running out of time for the Beatles covers… Good show none the less, Gary. Thanks!
	🇰🇷 9:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ Gary ~
	10:00pm Gary: Night, everyone!
	🇰🇷 10:00pm chresti: Thanks Gary!
	🇰🇷 10:08pm WR: Thank you! Gary! A lot to absorb, will repeat listen for sure.
	3:14pm Jason Munger: Lovey show! The leyla gmail piece reminds me a lot of Ahwak by AHHafez Also do you know blond blond? I know not Egyptian but Algerian, I just found a cover by rachid Tasha of his hit “bomb atomique”

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