This is music video was made for the music hit in the 1960s "Take me back to Cairo" which was sung by Karim Shoukry ,An Egyptian young man who left Egypt in 1960s to Canada to start a career in his showbiz as a singer and producer , the song met a huge success , already the music is wonderful , the mix between the western and Egyptian music blows my wind , the Egyptian part actually is from the folklore ,an original folklore piece of Music . It is from the Anglo-Arab hits , you see the Franco-Arab songs win more
Shukry is currently living in Montreal as a successful film distributor and producer as far I found out, to tell you the truth he had an excellent voice
The Song was re-represented again to the Egyptian audience in 1980s by Singer Samir El-Eskandarny , in fact I know it from Samir
Huge thanks to my dear friend Dr.Ahmed Kamel for finding this treasure in Youtube
and here is the MP3 for those who only like to listen
Here is some blast from the past , from the sweet sixties :)
By the way if you got any songs for this singer please tell me
Dear Zeinobia,I found your blog by chance,I feel very happy to see young girl like you and has the love of her country,Egypt deeply seated in her heart.Your Choice of "Take me back to Cairo" is very succesful,Egypt needs more people like you to regain its lost glory.
ReplyDelete@anonymous ,thank you so much for your wonderful words , Egypt insh Allah will regain its lost glory soon :)
ReplyDeleteHi Zeinobia, an excellent blog. I have been coming to Egypt for about 15 years now from time to time and have always enjoyed cairo, its people and its architecture. I've learnt a lot from Samir Raafat's website Egy.com. About ten years ago I got a tape from a music shop near Orabi and on it were several songs by Karim Shoukry and others. Now I have converted the songs to a digital CD. I shall be back in Cairo in just over a week and I would be very happy to give you a copy.
ReplyDeleteHi Zeinobia, I'll be in Cairo on monday morning, my email address is altairbynight@hotmail.com I would like to give you the CD I have of Karim Shoukry. Regards Paul.
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