Jameel
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Rare recordings from the 1920's
I was at a cousin's house last week installing some cabinet doors I had made for him. First of all, the cabinets were filled with records. The man has
a huge collection of jazz, rock, classical (including two copies of the original White album) among others. A real child of the 60's and 70's. (I grew
up on all this music too, my dad was into every type of music from Um Kulthoum to Santana--and we probably listened to more music than TV) So I was
drilling some holes for the hinges when this really ratty binder got in my way. This thing looked like it had been through both World Wars, a washing
machine, run over by a dump truck, etc. etc. So I grabbed it to move it out of the way and when I saw the labels were in Arabic, I took a much closer
look. Well, it turned out these albums HAD been through two world wars! Well, almost. I think these are from the 20's and perhaps earlier. Maybe
someone can shed some light on these artists. I've only heard of Laura Dedache. I didn't bother to tweak the audio on these or remove the pops or
hiss, since the quality isn't so great anyway.
Rare Discs
Click on the labels to download the audio.
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Mike
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What a find Jameelo! Shams el Shamoose...NICE! 
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TruePharaoh21
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Hey guys,
Nice find, man. I don't know if I shared this site with you all before or not, but here's a site that this guy has where he posted all of these
records that he has of old Arabic music, including a recording of an artist labeled as "Semi Sheheen," which someone on another forum suggested might
be Simon Shaheen when he was much younger.
Old Records
Enjoy,
TP21
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Jameel
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Sorry these aren't better quality fellas.
Nice site TP. I have a few of these albums from my grandfather's old collection!
That's not Simon Shaheen. He would have been an infant in the 50's.
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alex-nozh
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wow! thanks for links 
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