My First Egyptian 45

[Pete S]

I think so anyway...

 

[Kegsy]

41 minutes ago, Pete S said:

I think so anyway...

 

It would be nice if it was on pyramid or casablanca. 

[Guest]

Or Sphincter!

[Tattoodave]

Casablanca is in Morocco, and unless that's an intended Freudian slip, you might mean Sphinx Steve?

[Guest Spain pete]

Was it a giveaway with 20 camels 👅🎶

[maslar]

2 hours ago, Steve Lane said:

Or Sphincter!

Oooh slippy Freud

[Kegsy]

1 hour ago, TattooDave said:

Casablanca is in Morocco, 

It's on a west coast demo in that case 

[Mgm 1251]

...Nile Rogers on guitar...?.....

What does Cairo U.A.R stand for(or did stand for)  ?  

[maslar]

49 minutes ago, MGM 1251 said:

...Nile Rogers on guitar...?.....

What does Cairo U.A.R stand for(or did stand for)  ?  

United Arab Republic. The name  Egypt went under  from 1958 until 1971. From 58 to 61 the UAR was Egypt and Syria.

[Joesoap]

I've got a 7" from Nepal somewhere, not soul though, unsurprisingly.

Furthest flung soul record I've got is Linda Lyndell from the Philippines found in a local record shop with John Manship's handwriting on the sleeve speculating that it's a local, Philadelphia release!

At risk of being done for going totally off topic, best Egyptian record is Jonathon Richman 'Egyptian Reggae'. Always went down a bomb when played at parties for a more general music loving crowd. I reckon you could just about pull it off at a broad-minded enough soul night, given enough alcohol! 

(Edit: Actually, just listened to 'Egyptian Reggae'. Definitely sounds like something that Roger Eagle might have played had it been around in the early days of The Wheel!) 

 

Edited January 26, 2018 by JoeSoap

[Robbk]

No surprise that there were Soul records in The Philippines during the 1960s.  It was a US territory with US military personnel stationed there.  But why would RCA print The Lollipops' record in Egypt???  There were some Brits there, but I'll bet that song got no airplay in The UK.  It didn't even get played in USA outside The Northeast.

Edited January 29, 2018 by RobbK

[Tlscapital]

Mind you that Cairo was "Western" orientated then, like Beirut (Lebanon) and Istanbul (Turkey) and there was a clubbing night life for the most Jet-Setters chosen few then. Also I believe more that it could be through the French "channels" that those labels got such releases over there...

Edited January 29, 2018 by tlscapital

[Sheep]

Lived in Cairo for 3 years. Did hear of a radio station which had a record library, otherwise very rarely  saw a 45 in shops or markets.

[maslar]

Who knows how and why a particular record gets released in a foreign country and others don't? Some are obvious, some not so. E.g why was The Hesitations INBTW/Soul Superman released in Holland and not the UK? Or any other European country for that matter? As for Egypt - I don't really have any knowledge of how record were released (or what were imported - if any)  or  for what reason. The absence of the American fleet aside the obvious answer is a perceived market/demand  from young people. Then again maybe they specifically released records that could be used in the belly dancing dens in the casbah (in the absence of the US cavalry of course). The Beatles releases only amount to the  last two LPs I think and those are very rare (there might have been one of two singles, I'm not sure). I've seen a pic of an Egyptian copy of Baby Love. It looks to me like releaes were done on very idiosyncratic manner - probably due to the whims of individuals more than anything else.