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Title: Destination Desert: 33 Oriental Rock 'n' Roll Treasures (Various Artists)
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Bear Family
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4000127177315
Genre: Pop
Release Date: 2023-09-08
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: BOOKLET

Destination Desert: 33 Oriental Rock 'n' Roll Treasures Off to the desert, embark on a R 'n' R trip to the orient, to exotic destinations and distant cities: this CD edition from the 'Destination' series on Bear Family Records® is all about rock 'n' roll and sheikhs, harems, oases, King Tut and Ali Baba and faraway places like Baghdad and Istanbul. -Musical companions include Bill Haley and his Comets, Jerry Reed, Art Neville, Dinah Washington, The Fendermen and Preston Love. -The playlist from the 1950s and early '60s provides Caravan, Come With Me To The Casbah, Turkish Doghouse, Ahab The Arab, Sinbad, Ali Ben Ghazi and more musical highlights. -Charmingly written liner notes and info on each performer by music historian Bill Dahl and careful re-mastering round out a delightful project. If you were astride a mighty camel while fearlessly navigating the wind-swept sands of the Sahara, good old-fashioned rock and roll would be just about the last commodity you would expect to encounter. Yet such fantastic scenarios inspired a slew of songs set to exotically rocking rhythms, their unusual narratives constructed around sheiks, harems, oases, King Tut and Ali Baba, and far-off locales like Bagdad and Istanbul. Those happen to be the very subjects dominating Bear Family's 'Destination Desert - 33 Oriental Rock 'n' Roll Treasures.' Some very unexpected names turn up on this anthology that you'd never expect to see searing their feet in such scorching, sun-strewn climes: rockabilly guitar ace Jerry Reed, for example, or sax wailer Preston Love, or New Orleans piano pounder Art Neville. Glamorous R&B chanteuses Dinah Washington and Big Maybelle seem highly unlikely candidates to hop aboard a dromedary, but they're here as well. The Fendermen, The Polk Brothers, and Bobby Christian offer contrasting treatments of Duke Ellington's immortal Caravan.

Tracks:
1.1 Jerry Reed - Rockin' In Bagdad
1.2 The Champs - Ali Baba (2 rmst.)
1.3 The Polk Brothers - Caravan Rock
1.4 The Ramrocks - Pasha
1.5 The Silver-Tones - Arabian Rock
1.6 Eddie 'The Sheik' Kochak - Shish Ka Bob Rock
1.7 The Majestics - Oasis
1.8 Big Maybelle - That's A Pretty Good Love
1.9 Jack Hammer - Ali Ben Ghazi
1.10 The Latins - Habibi Twist
1.11 The Slaves - Hari's Harem
1.12 The Saxons - Camel Walk -part I
1.13 Jo Ann Campbell - Ahab The Arab
1.14 Preston Love - Ali Baba's Boogie
1.15 The Colts - Sheik Of Araby
1.16 Dinah Washington - One Arabian Night
1.17 The Fendermen - Caravan
1.18 Ferlin Husky - Aladdin's Lamp
1.19 Leroy Holmes - In A Persian Market
1.20 Bill Haley and His Comets - Oriental Rock
1.21 Bobby Freeman - Sinbad
1.22 The Teentones - Sands Of Arabia
1.23 Ganimian and His Orientals - Come With Me To The Casbah
1.24 Dave ; The Customs - Ali Baba
1.25 Art Neville - Arabian Love Call
1.26 The Socialties - King Tut Rock
1.27 The Big Sound Of Don Ralke - Zooba!
1.28 Billy Grammer - Princess Of Persia
1.29 Johnny and The Hurricanes - Sheba
1.30 Kent Westberry - Turkish Doghouse Rock
1.31 The Renegades - Istanbul
1.32 The Sandpipers - Ali Baba
1.33 Bobby Christian - Caravan