Filed under: Iran
♬ If You Help Me / اگه یارم بشی
Afshin Moghaddam (Hossein Ahanian Moghaddam) was born in Tehran, Iran in 1945. He was best known for his song “Zemestoun“, which which is considered one of the “100 Greatest Iranian Songs of All-Time”. Moghaddam was killed in a car accident whilst traveling to Amol in 1976.
Surprisingly, this song was not included on either the “Raks Raks Raks” or the “Persian Underground” compilations.
Released on 6 & 8 Records of Iran. No catalog number or release date listed.
Filed under: Vietnam
Nguyễn Thị Lệ Mai – better known by her stage name Khánh Ly – was born in Hanoi, Vietnam – then known as French Indochina – on March 6th, 1945.
At the age of 12, she moved to Saigon with her mother. That year, she competed in a children’s singer selection contest organized by Radio France Asia. For the next seven years, she sang in tea rooms. Beginning in 1967, she recorded numerous songs for Song Nhac and Continental as well as other record labels. In 1970 , receiving an invitation from NHK television station, Khánh Ly went to perform in Japan where she also recorded songs in Japanese.
In 1975, Khánh Ly left Vietnam and settled in Cerritos, California. As of this posting, she is still active. Her most recent release was 2020 on her own label Khánh Ly Productions.
No catalog number or release date listed. Released on Songnhạc of Lawndale, California. This cassette was originally issued in Vietnam on the Băng Nhạc Trịnh Công Sơn label in 1972.
Filed under: Brazil
This single was a one off by the duo of Ronaldo “Ro” Tapajós and Carlos “Carlinhos” Alberto De Souza, and was produced by Hélcio Milito – who was featured on “The Post with No Name“. Probably one of the more obscure Tropicália releases. Surprised this was included on the Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas compilation.
Catalog number 33563 on CBS of Brazil, released 1968.
Filed under: Algeria
♬ Si Moh’
I reached out to my Algerian sources and neither one of them could find anything on this record.
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Catalog number KO 77.1010 on Le Kiosque d’Orphée of Paris, France. Released 1977.
Filed under: Eritrea
This one is a mystery.
I have not been able to find any other information about Ibrahim Mahmoud / ኢብራሂም ማሕሙድ nor the arranger Ghermaine Solomon / ገርማዬ ሰሎሞን. The record label – Tesfa Records – released only one other single by Munaie Menberu / በሙናዬ መንበሩ who was, to the best of my knowledge, Ethiopian. Neither record lists an address where the label was based, just that they were pressed in Greece.
But, if I had to guess just by listening to the music on this record, I would say it sounds like it was from Eritrea.
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Catalog number TG 101 on Tesfa Records. No other information available..
Filed under: Cambodia
Pen Ram / ប៉ែន-រ៉ម – not her more well known sister Pen Ran (also seen as Pan Ron) / ប៉ែន រ៉ន as originally posted – was born in Battambang, Cambodia. Little is known of her personal history. Like many Cambodian musicians of the time, Pen Ran disappeared during the Khmer Rouge genocide.
Im Songserm (also seen Im Song Seum) / អ៊ឹម សុងសឺម was born in 1943 in Kampong Preah, Cambodia. He was discovered by Mey Thirith / ម៉ី-ធីរិទ្ធិ, an employee of the Ministry of Information and a recording artist in his own right, while still in secondary school. Im Song Seum died on March 16th of 1972 at the age of 29 reportedly of stomach cancer. He never saw the devastation of the Pol Pot years that followed a few years later.
If you would like to find out more about Cambodian Rock and Roll, you should check out John Pirozzi‘s film “Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll” or previous Cambodian posts.
Many thanks to Nate Hun of the Cambodian Vintage Music Archive for catching error in the original post. He has also sent the sheet music and lyrics for the song above.
Catalog number ERP2 on Heng Heng Records Co. of France. A previous owner wrote the date 09/03/81 on the inside of the sleeve. Apparently, Heng Heng repressed many Khmer records for the Cambodian diaspora. This original single was released on Olympic around 1971.
Filed under: El Salvador
Los Junior’s de Santa Tecla formed in September of 1970 in San Salvador, El Salvador. The band consisted of: Alirio Guerra (leader and singer), Romeo Segovia (drums), Rafael López (bass), Alfredo Granados (guitar), Roberto Molares (keyboard) and Raúl Andino (second singer). After five albums and a dozen singles, they broke up in 1978.
Catalog number 10686 A on CBS of Costa Rica. No release date listed.
Filed under: India
Contrary to what the cover may convey, this is not a Bollywood Bluegrass album. Regrettably, that genre has yet to materialize. The banjo is only featured on one song on this album.
The only information I have been able to find about Jayanti & Honey, is that they released one other album – “Hits of 1987” – that was only available on cassette.
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Catalog number VBLP 1002 on Venus Records & Tapes Mfg. Co. of India. Released 1985.
Filed under: Libya
♬ Sultan Zamaini / سلطان زماني (Parts I & II)
What little I have been able to find about Faraj al-Arabi / فرج العربي is that he was originally from Libya, before moving to Egypt. Besides singing, he was also an actor. This single was from the 1969 film ” الشيطان” / “The Devil” which he starred in along with فريد شوقي / Farid Shawqi and سهير زكي / Suhair Zaki.
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PLEASE NOTE: I have edited Side One and Side Two into one track, attempting to make the transition from Part One and Part Two as seamless as possible.
Catalog number 31-73012 on Moriphon of Egypt. Release 1973.
Filed under: Malaysia
Somehow this single has even less information than the last single I posted from Malaysia. Other than a listing on Discogs, there no information available about the band or it’s members and nothing about the record label that released it.
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Catalog number S. B. 101 on Suara Baru Record of Malaysia. Released 1967.
