Thread: Name that tune!

The first one you hear:
[ame=http://youtube.com/watch?v=fFDFSl6z14U]YouTube - National Egyptian Dance Troupe - Tour 2007[/ame]

I have a copy on a CD I bought from Faten Salama, but it's just called 'melaya leff' on the track listing -- and the quality is a little rough. I'd like to get an original recording AND I'd like to be able to find at least a rough translation.

Anyone? Anyone?

Bueller?

<*insert sound of crickets chirping*>

Sorry Lauren - I can't help you but I posted because you sounded forlorn.,f::

Love and sympathy are as welcome as information, Elijay!

I'm looking... no title yet but I've found another clip.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQeFBbiHzJg"]YouTube - Lubna Emam[/ame]

I don't know what it's called, but 20 seconds of it put me right back in Faten Salama's meleya leff workshop!

We need to get THTX in here. She is the "Name That Tune" expert.

Sorry Lauren, I'm not able to cough up an answer for you either.

Well I can't name that tune either. I have a few Cd's but it is always labeled "melaya luff" no specific song id.

I recently got Mohamed Shahin's 2008 workshop CD that has Melya luff on it. I know that he has a workshop DVD choreo available for this music. You can email him for details.

I saw Lubna do this dance last night in a show! Don't remember the name of the song. I'm sure I have it amongst my CDs .... somewhere.

THTX, where are you???

BTW, the Mohamed Shahin song is different. It's Banat Baharaei (sp?).

I don't know, but I am drooling over that first clip!

Faten said it's "Banat el Mahroussa". It's on the back of her melaya DVD also.

Best Wishes

found this thanks to bellydancefanatic: Aladdins Cave MELAYADVD

YAY, thank you!!! I never thought to look on the back of the DVD, D'OH!!!

I have the DVD. I also have Faten's CD with the music on it, but it's one of those CDs you often get from the Egyptian teachers, where all the track names have been changed and the quality is poor.

I'd still like to find an original copy of the music and a full lyric translation (Faten translated some of the lyrics at the workshop).

But having a song title will surely help!

Well, the only thing I've been able to come up with is a translation of the title,Banat el Mahroussa, The Guarded women of Cairo.

I found on Al Ahram that Al Mahrousa means "the guarded" and Cairo is also refered to as al Mahrousa.

Other than that, I've got squat. I don't even know how true what I just typed is.

Thanks, Michelle. I found Mahroussa mostly as the name of a ship, a racehorse, or a hotel!! I wondered if it was also a city name, a name for Cairo makes lots of sense.

My best guess is that in this case it just means 'girls of Cairo'