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"Egyptian Shumba" has grown to become an underground classic. [2]During the 2000s, "Egyptian Shumba" became a cult favorite at Northern soul dances. [18]While reviewing the 2005 compilation One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost And Found, Jeremiah Tucker of The Joplin Globe described it as "one of the most peculiar girl group songs I've ever heard, sounding like the modern freak ...
The collection also contains several Christie hits with backing vocals by the Tammys. "Egyptian Shumba" was included in the Grammy nominated box set One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds, Lost and Found. In 2006, Pitchfork Media included "Egyptian Shumba" in its list of top 200 songs of the 1960s at number 177. [3]
Herbert and Christie also composed for his backup singers, a girl group named the Tammys, a handful of songs, including the eccentric single, "Egyptian Shumba," which with its over-the-top, savage vocals and faux-Middle Eastern melody, has become a cult classic. [6] Herbert died in Phoenix, Arizona in 2009, at the age of 87. [7]
During this pre-Army phase of his career, the female vocalists featured on Christie's records were The Tammys, a trio from Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsylvania. Christie and Herbert wrote the single "Egyptian Shumba" for the group, and although it was not a hit, it became a cult favorite in the Northern Soul scene in the early 1970s.
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"Two Faces Have I" is a song written by Twyla Herbert and Lou Christie and performed by Christie in his signature falsetto. The song was produced by Nick Cenci [1] and was featured on his 1963 album, Lou Christie. [2]
Kuchuk Hanem (fl. 1850–1870) was a famed beauty and Ghawazee dancer of Esna, [1] mentioned in two unrelated accounts of travel to Egypt, the French novelist Gustave Flaubert [2] and the American adventurer George William Curtis. [3] Kuchuk Hanem became a key figure and symbol in Flaubert's Orientalist accounts of the East.
The Arabic غوازي ghawāzī (singular غازية ghāziya) means "conqueror", as the ghaziya is said to "conquer" the hearts of her audience. They were also known as awālim (singular alma, transliterated almeh in French as almée), but in Egypt, Awalim are the traditional Egyptian dancers and singers of the city, not rural areas, who used to perform in respectable events such as the ...