WFMU: Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from October 30, 2024

Listener comments!
	7:00pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Gary, Tim, and all!
	🇰🇷 7:00pm Listener Gregory: Good evening, hot bod-ies! Opening is very, very low.
	🇰🇷 7:00pm WR: Hi Gary, the volume is extremely low.
	7:01pm Gary: How is the sound now?
	🇰🇷 7:02pm WR: The volume is AOK now
	🇰🇷 7:02pm chresti: Hi Gary bodega show
	🇰🇷 7:03pm Listener Gregory: These rehearsals are so important.
	🇰🇷 7:03pm WR: Tim and all sounds ok now.
	🇰🇷 7:04pm Listener Gregory: Hi, Tim! Thanks for helping out here.
	7:05pm tom tom the pipers son: hello gary and tim and all...
	🇰🇷 7:06pm Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Evening all. Gotta hop out for some errands; back in a bit.
	7:07pm tim abdellah: So glad to be here with you all!
	7:07pm DJ Peter: So this is the breakthrough hit version?
	7:08pm Gary: ↳ DJ Peter @7:07 Heh, no, but you will recognize it mebbe!
	7:09pm Gary: Howdy James, Gregory, WR, Chresti, Gregory, Tomx2, Threemoons, DJ Peter, and TIM!!!
	7:09pm tim abdellah: ↳ DJ Peter @7:07 Yes, this was the big smash from 2000. But there were predecessors...
	7:09pm doctorjazz: Hi Gary, Tim, Bodega a shoppers!
	7:10pm Gary: JazzDoc is in!
	🇰🇷 7:10pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Saber Rebai" This is very catchy, that's for sure.
	🇰🇷 7:12pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @7:09 Hey, @doctorj, my playlists are still missing the bubbles, so I had to switch browsers. The shame of it all!
	🇰🇷 7:16pm WR: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:10 see how catchy you think it is after you have heard about 28 versions and variations. Heh heh.
	7:18pm Gary: ↳ WR @7:16 IT JUST GETS MORE CATCHY
	7:18pm doctorjazz: EVERYBODY DANCE!!!!
	🇰🇷 7:19pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Gary @7:18 Pitch correctors and the like turn off the catch for me.
	7:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:12 Sorry about that (as I said, I use Chrome and occasionally Edge on my PC, and Chrome and occasionally Safari on my MacBook. I'm used to Chrome, but some things work better on the other browsers.
	7:21pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Saber Rebai" good evening, Gary! Tim! cranking it!!! i love this song! and have been obsessed too, ever since i first heard it -- early/mid-2000s, i think at a hafla? used to practice dance with my little cat Lefty to this song -- sometimes she seemed to enjoy it? other times she was like, "ok, I will put up with this goofy human" haha! and omg is that Boney M. in the collage?!? ok gotta get back to fixing food -- hardly a hafla, but so happy and grateful to be home, and listening live with you all :)
	7:22pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Cheb Aissa" wow have not heard this version in ages! so cool
	7:23pm Gary: Slugluv!!
	🇰🇷 7:24pm chresti: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:21 Boney M⭐
	7:26pm tim abdellah: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:21 Boney M indeed!
	🇰🇷 7:27pm chresti: The new emojis look like cookies with rounded edges
	7:27pm doctorjazz: Time for dinner, will have the show on!
	🇰🇷 7:36pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid" Donkeys are comedic gold; everyone knows that.
	7:37pm tim abdellah: There's a whole Jerrari album about food: "Les Chansons Gastronomiques De Mohamed Jerrari"
	7:38pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:36 Indeed
	7:38pm Gary: ↳ tim abdellah @7:37 I need that LP
	🇰🇷 7:39pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour (Viens À Mon Appel Ô Mon Seigneur)" ... Subtitle... "Hear my cry, oh Lord"?
	7:41pm tim abdellah: Ah sorry - was gonna translate the lyrics before I had my issue with the notes
	7:42pm tim abdellah: Sidi Mansour is a saint/holy man named Mansour. "Sidi" means literally, my Lord or Sir. can be used to address any male you respect, but is idiomatically used to refer to saints
	7:43pm tim abdellah: And "Baba Bahri", which you heard in the second section translates as like "Father Seaman/Sailor". It's another name for Sidi Mansour
	🇰🇷 7:43pm Listener Gregory: ↳ tim abdellah @7:42 So we should call our host Sidi Gary? Good to know.
	7:46pm Gary: ↳ Song: "Ya Nkheyla" by "Hiyam Younes" This is my favorite version so far
	7:46pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Ya Nkheyla" by "Hiyam Younes" WOW! not familiar with this version -- breathtaking!
	7:46pm slugluv1313: ↳ Gary @7:46 same here!
	7:47pm tim abdellah: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:46 I love this one too!
	7:47pm tim abdellah: The Jerrari probably dates from the late 60's or early 70s
	7:48pm tim abdellah: And the Hiyam Younes dates to 1980 in its original release
	7:49pm headcleaner: Evening and as-salāmu ʿalaykunnᵃ / alaykum, peoples
	7:50pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Allah Allah Ne Zaman" by "Güzin İle Baha" this is gorgeous too! (although at first, i thought it was from a Bollywood film -- DUH! my language ears are rusty)
	7:52pm Gary: The Headcleaner!
	7:54pm Carmichael: Heya Gary and pop stars. Mrs Carmichael had never heard of Boney M. I initiated a course correction.
	7:55pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Alah Alah Ya Baba - Baba Bahreim (bodega edit)" b... This version is interesting. Instead of singing only about Sidi Mansour, this singer dedicates each verse to a different saint
	7:55pm Gary: Theee Carmichael!
	7:55pm Gary: ↳ tim abdellah @7:55 Covering all her bases, smart
	7:55pm slugluv1313: iirc, "sido" is a form of "grandfather" in Arabic -- ? (thinking of Sido restaurant near 72nd Street, NYC)
	7:55pm tim abdellah: ↳ tim abdellah @7:55 I edited out three saints 'cause this track is hella long - apologies
	7:56pm Gary: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:55 Ohhh, I gotta look up that resto
	🇰🇷 7:56pm Listener Gregory: ↳ tim abdellah @7:55 I hope there's no blowback, Tim. Saints can hold a grudge.
	7:57pm tim abdellah: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:56 😂
	7:58pm tim abdellah: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:55 Could be in some dialects. Siyyed means something like "Sir" in direct translation literally
	🇰🇷 8:04pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Sid Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid" I thought Boney M was a saxophone player!!
	8:05pm tim abdellah: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:04 That would be a good sax player name!
	8:05pm Gary: ↳ Song: "Ma Baker" by "Boney M." Pay attention to that ma-ma-ma-ma-ma kids
	8:06pm wimpy: I didn’t know boney m was so big, I only know Rasputin so i always assumed they were some kind of novelty one hit wonder act
	8:06pm Gary: Wimpy!!!
	8:07pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Ma Baker" by "Boney M." damn! i had no idea that Ma Baker was based on Sidi Mansour, but i can totally hear it -- thank you Gary and Tim!
	🇰🇷 8:08pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Ma Baker" by "Boney M." We've gone from a song about a saint to one about an American gangster. There is a lesson here.
	8:08pm wimpy: Hi Gary!
	8:09pm mic_a: Hello Gary, Tim & Beepers! My spectral presence is floating about.
	8:12pm tim abdellah: docs.google.com...
	8:18pm tim abdellah: 1) Shifted off 2 beats from the usual placement of the melody on the 4/4 2) Dropping the 2nd syllable of Baba
	🇰🇷 8:28pm Listener Gregory: Wait, Milli Vanilli??? What did we do to deserve this?
	🇰🇷 8:28pm WR: There is always room for Milli Vanilli and more Sidi Mansour
	8:29pm tim abdellah: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:28 Probably me offening those saints
	🇰🇷 8:30pm Listener Gregory: ↳ tim abdellah @8:29 I guess it's all for the sake of science.
	8:33pm mic_a: Always thought it was Ma Barker... https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/04/ITDotM_MasBoys.jpg (Jack Kirby, 1971)
	8:34pm Gary: Mic_a!
	8:36pm Gary: ↳ Song: "Šmoulí skafandr" by "Šmoulové" Czech Smurf alert!
	8:36pm tim abdellah: ↳ mic_a @8:33 Yes - they changed the name for the song 'cos they thought it sounded better
	🇰🇷 8:36pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Gary @8:36 You're supposed to say that BEFORE the song starts!!
	8:36pm Gary: Šmoulí skafandr = Smurf space suit
	8:37pm mic_a: I can see that point. Or hear it, rather.
	🇰🇷 8:41pm Listener Gregory: Some of these songs have a real kick to them—more than I found in Boney M.
	8:42pm wimpy: No way
	8:43pm tim abdellah: YEEEEESSSS!!
	8:45pm tim abdellah: This whole show was just a rationale to get Gary to play Lady Gaga
	🇰🇷 8:45pm WR: It is dawning on me that perhaps we should consider Sidi Mansour as a genre like blues.
	8:45pm Gary: ↳ WR @8:45 Haha
	8:45pm Gary: ↳ tim abdellah @8:45 OMG
	🇰🇷 8:48pm WR: Do those comments about Lady Gaga mean that Gary has regularly played Milli Vanilli?
	🇰🇷 8:52pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid" Gary, if we told you a year ago that you would some day discuss the relative merits of Boney M and Milli Vanilli on the show, what would you have said?
	8:58pm mic_a: Ooh, nice merging.
	8:58pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:52 Haha
	🇰🇷 8:59pm david w: Hanging on by my fingernails, and thrilled!
	9:00pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Shady Gove/Sidi Mansour" by "Kantara" lovely 💚💜
	🇰🇷 9:00pm WR: ↳ Song: "Shady Gove/Sidi Mansour" by "Kantara" This is interesting. I know of Shady Grove from a few recordings around 1970 and it sounds like it has roots in early UK traditional music.
	9:01pm slugluv1313: ↳ tim abdellah @8:45 😹😹😹
	9:01pm Gary: ↳ david w @8:59 David!!!
	9:01pm Listener Gregory: Well, I did not see the Shady Grove mashup coming.
	9:03pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Rolling in the Deep / Sidi Mansour (From "Wardi &... This is a Sidi Mansour / Adele mashup
	9:04pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Ma Baker" by "Milli Vanilli" omg OF COURSE Milli Vanilli "covers" Boney M. 😸😸
	9:05pm slugluv1313: amazing! really loving this
	🇰🇷 9:07pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Whole Lotta Love + Sidi Mansour (extract)" by "Ro... 🔥😶‍🌫️🔥🛸
	9:08pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Whole Lotta Love + Sidi Mansour (extract)" by "Ro... Justin Adams on guitar
	9:08pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Whole Lotta Love + Sidi Mansour (extract)" by "Ro... ok like any other teenager in 1970s NJ suburbs, i loved Led Zeppelin -- but i swear, the "older" Plant gets, the more i appreciate him
	9:11pm Carmichael: Just today heard the original When the Levee Breaks. 1932, I think.
	9:14pm Gary: ↳ Song: "Ya Baba" by "Fanfara Station" I'm getting Tusk vibes
	9:18pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Ma Baker" by "Boney M." admittedly late to the party with Boney M., the first time i heard them was on Scott Muni's "Things from England" show, Friday afternoons on WNEW-FM -- their version of "Rivers of Babylon" was #1 for many weeks in 1978 DJ Stashu did an incredible version of "Rasputin" for the WFMU marathon finale some years ago and, i would love to see SM Ken do this for the finale -- with the same costuming, choreography, etc. : youtu.be...
	9:19pm rw: Hey! Got here late but I think I’m understanding. Either way’s cool though.
	🇰🇷 9:19pm WR: Looking for info on Robert Plant incorporating Sidi Mansour into his live shows I bumped into a record by Cheikha Rimitti where she does Sidi Mansour and Robert Fripp is on the album (don't know about track details). www.discogs.com...
	🇰🇷 9:19pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid" 💥💥💥💥
	9:21pm slugluv1313: yes! years ago coined the phrase "John Cage it" when the ex and i were trying to understand why we disliked -- or absolutely hated!" -- certain music
	9:24pm slugluv1313: ↳ chresti @7:24 hi chresti!!! (apologies, was fixing food -- just catching up with comments now)
	9:25pm tim abdellah: www.google.com...
	9:27pm Listener Gregory: I have tried the same thing as Sidi Mansour, praying instead of doing my work, but it has never worked out for me.
	9:30pm tom tom the pipers son: been horizontal... in and out of consciousness but dug all the electronic bangers last set
	9:31pm StringOFperils: Hello Gary et al. Really missing this show (have a class on Wed. nights), but hear now!
	9:33pm Gary: StringOFperils and rw!
	9:34pm tim abdellah: moroccantapestash.blogspot.com...
	9:39pm tim abdellah: Cheikh Mohamed Boudaya can be seen above the mosque in the collage artwork on this page
	9:40pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour (early fade)" by "Boudaya" interestingto think back to first tracks played in show which were so "cooked" compared to this which is "raw"....
	9:42pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:40 The Claude Lévi-Strauss effect. Okay, I'll shut up...
	9:42pm slugluv1313: ↳ Gary @7:56 Sido Falafel! 267 Columbus Avenue (near 72nd Street): sidofalafeltogo.com my introduction to Sido was when i was volunteering with NAAP-NY [Network of Arab-American Professionals] and they were vendors at NAAP-NY's yearly street fairs -- OMG the BEST!!! and why i make excuses to go to the upper west side if i can :)
	9:42pm tim abdellah: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:40 Yeah! Quite a journey!
	🇰🇷 9:43pm chresti: ↳ slugluv1313 @9:24 hi slugluv! de nada!
	🇰🇷 9:45pm chresti: really enjoying this! Thanks Tim & Gary!
	9:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @9:42 thanks, i will look that up smartie pants....
	9:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tim abdellah @9:42 in general, we are living in 'cooked' times
	9:47pm tim abdellah: www.youtube.com...
	9:48pm slugluv1313: ↳ tim abdellah @9:39 thanks! who is standing to Boney M.'s right?
	9:49pm slugluv1313: ↳ chresti @9:43 😻😻
	9:50pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:45 I was free associating > en.wikipedia.org...
	9:53pm Gary: Yo, music lovers! Stick around after this for Sam Segal's always-already terrific If You Lose Your Horse! Tonight's episode: "A Fenced Horse Feeds Loud in the Back of the Close-Out Store" wfmu.org...
	9:53pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @9:50 oh thanks, but that's accurate to what i was trying to say
	9:53pm tim abdellah: ↳ slugluv1313 @9:48 Ah - that's from the cover of Richard Jankowsky's book Stambeli
	9:54pm tim abdellah: ↳ tim abdellah @9:53 A Stambeli dancer, holding those chkachek clacky things you're hearning now
	🇰🇷 9:54pm Listener Gregory: What a great show this has been. Thanks so much to Tim for putting all this together. Maybe next time you can cover two songs on one show, if Gary loosens up.
	9:54pm Gary: THANK YOU X 100000 TIM!!!!
	9:55pm slugluv1313: i was looking to see if Orchestre national de Barbès has covered Sidi Mansour -- but coming up empty handed (for some reason i thought that they also had their own version -- ?!?)
	9:55pm tom tom the pipers son: i have been to tunisia but unfortunately did not seek out any music
	9:56pm tim abdellah: Thanks everyone - such a pleasure to be able to share this music with you all and try to connect the dots! And thanks Gary for inviting me!
	9:56pm Gary: ↳ tim abdellah @9:56 Come back any time, Tim!
	9:56pm slugluv1313: what a fantastic glorious fun journey! thanks so much, Gary and Tim!
	9:57pm wimpy: This was a really cool show, thanks! Definitely the spirit of the hellraiser, as in putting on really good shows to entice donations
	9:57pm tom tom the pipers son: thank you tim, the depth of your musical knowledge always a highlight on the playlist...as always thanks gary
	9:58pm StringOFperils: An archive dive for me; sounds well worth it! Thanks Tim! Thanks Gary! Thanks WFMU!
	9:59pm rw: THank you Gary and Tim!!!
	9:59pm slugluv1313: ↳ tim abdellah @9:53 thank you!
	10:05pm Gary: Night and thanks everyone!

Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from October 30, 2024

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Wed. Oct 30th, 7pm - 10pm: The Sidi Mansourgency (More info...)
How did a timeless Tunisian Sufi folk song become a smash European disco banger, a Czech song praising spacesuit usage by Smurf astronauts, and covers by dozens of pop and avant-garde musicians worldwide? Special guest Tim Abdellah takes us down one of Arabic music’s deepest, most bizarrely satisfying rabbit holes.

October 30, 2024: The Sidi Mansourgency
How did a timeless Tunisian Sufi folk song become a smash European disco banger, a Czech song praising spacesuit usage by Smurf astronauts, and covers by dozens of pop and avant-garde musicians worldwide? Special guest Tim (Moroccan Tape Stash) Abdellah takes us down one of Arabic music’s deepest, most bizarrely satisfying rabbit holes

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Collage by Tim Abdellah

Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Bodega Pop	Introduction "Introduction" by "Bodega Pop"	Bodega Pop	2024		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Saber Rebai	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Saber Rebai"	Sidi Mansour	2000	Tunisian Pan-Arabic pop smash	0:06:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
İbrahim Tatlıses	Mavişim "Mavişim" by "İbrahim Tatlıses"	Yetmez Mi?	2001	Turkey	0:11:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nazia Iqbal	Za Yam Maghroora Laila	Haqeeqat (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	2007	Pakistan (Pashto)	0:14:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cheb Aissa	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Cheb Aissa"	Baraka (feat. Chico & The Gypsies)	2000	France	0:20:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Karpe	PAF.no "PAF.no" by "Karpe"	Omar Sheriff	2022	Norway	0:23:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Omar Khorshid	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid"	Guitar El Chark	2010	Egypt	0:27:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mohamed Jerrari	Sidi Mansour (Viens À Mon Appel Ô Mon Seigneur)	Tunisie - Chants & Rythmes	2022	Tunisia	0:36:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Hiyam Younes	Ya Nkheyla "Ya Nkheyla" by "Hiyam Younes"	Safet El Aroussa 2	1992	Lebanon	0:42:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Güzin İle Baha	Allah Allah Ne Zaman	En İyileriyle Güzin ile Baha	1975	Turkey	0:47:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ganawa	Ya Baba It's Not My Fault "Ya Baba It's Not My Fault" by "Ganawa"	Ganawa	1989	Algeria	0:50:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cheba Yamina	Alah Alah Ya Baba - Baba Bahreim (bodega edit)	CSC		Algeria	0:52:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Omar Khorshid	Sid Mansour "Sid Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid"	Guitar El Chark	2010	Egypt	0:58:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Boney M.	Ma Baker "Ma Baker" by "Boney M."	The Essential Boney M.	1977	Germany	1:04:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Omar Khorshid	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid"	Guitar El Chark	2010	Egypt	1:08:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mohammed Hanesh	Sidi Mansour (Original 1975 Single Version)	Sidi Mansour (2021 Remix) - EP	1975	Netherlands	1:15:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Omar Khorshid	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid"	Guitar El Chark	2010	Egypt	1:18:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Milli Vanilli	Ma Baker "Ma Baker" by "Milli Vanilli"	The Best of Milli Vanilli (35th Anniversary)	2023	Germany	1:27:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Banda R-15	Ma Baker (Cumbia) "Ma Baker (Cumbia)" by "Banda R-15"	Ma Baker	1994	Mexico	1:32:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Šmoulové	Šmoulí skafandr "Šmoulí skafandr" by "Šmoulové"	Ufouni A Marťani		Czech Republic	1:35:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dualities, Devinity & Leomi	Ma Baker	Ma Baker	2022	UK	1:39:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lady Gaga	Poker Face "Poker Face" by "Lady Gaga"	The Fame	2008	USA	1:42:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Omar Khorshid	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid"	Guitar El Chark	2010	Egypt	1:46:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kantara	Shady Gove/Sidi Mansour "Shady Gove/Sidi Mansour" by "Kantara"	Kantara II	2014	Tunisia/USA	1:56:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Alaa Wardi	Rolling in the Deep / Sidi Mansour (From "Wardi & Friends") [feat. Humood AlKhudher]	Rolling in the Deep / Sidi Mansour (From "Wardi & Friends") [feat. Humood AlKhudher] - Single	2021	UK	2:01:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation	Whole Lotta Love + Sidi Mansour (extract)	2007-07-18 Malta International Blues & Wine Festival	2007	Malta	2:04:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fanfara Station	Ya Baba "Ya Baba" by "Fanfara Station"	Boussadia	2022	Italy	2:08:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Karkhana	Sidi Mansour pt.3 "Sidi Mansour pt.3" by "Karkhana"	Al Azraqayn	2021	Lebanon	2:14:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Omar Khorshid	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid"	Guitar El Chark	2010	Egypt	2:18:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stambeli	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Stambeli"	Ennagham S.T.D. 032 (7") FLAC	1961	Tunisia	2:30:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Omar Khorshid	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid"	Guitar El Chark	2010	Egypt	2:34:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Boudaya	Sidi Mansour (early fade)	Sidi Mansour		Tunisia	2:37:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Âissawiya Oulad Ben Âisa B'Soussa	Sidi Mansour (excerpt)	Âissawiya Oulad Ben Âisa B'Soussa, under the direction of Faouzi al-Makki		Tunisia	2:41:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Omar Khorshid	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid"	Guitar El Chark	2010		2:43:38 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Stambeli Sidi Ali Lasmar	Sidi Bouras el Ajmi - Sidi Mansour - Sidi Amer (excerpt)	Ziyarat Sidi Ali El Mekki	2014		2:50:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Catrina Paslaru	Hei La Bodega "Hei La Bodega" by "Catrina Paslaru"	Hei La Bodega - Carnaval!	2000		2:58:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:00pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Gary, Tim, and all!
	🇰🇷 7:00pm Listener Gregory: Good evening, hot bod-ies! Opening is very, very low.
	🇰🇷 7:00pm WR: Hi Gary, the volume is extremely low.
	7:01pm Gary: How is the sound now?
	🇰🇷 7:02pm WR: The volume is AOK now
	🇰🇷 7:02pm chresti: Hi Gary bodega show
	🇰🇷 7:03pm Listener Gregory: These rehearsals are so important.
	🇰🇷 7:03pm WR: Tim and all sounds ok now.
	🇰🇷 7:04pm Listener Gregory: Hi, Tim! Thanks for helping out here.
	7:05pm tom tom the pipers son: hello gary and tim and all...
	🇰🇷 7:06pm Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Evening all. Gotta hop out for some errands; back in a bit.
	7:07pm tim abdellah: So glad to be here with you all!
	7:07pm DJ Peter: So this is the breakthrough hit version?
	7:08pm Gary: ↳ DJ Peter @7:07 Heh, no, but you will recognize it mebbe!
	7:09pm Gary: Howdy James, Gregory, WR, Chresti, Gregory, Tomx2, Threemoons, DJ Peter, and TIM!!!
	7:09pm tim abdellah: ↳ DJ Peter @7:07 Yes, this was the big smash from 2000. But there were predecessors...
	7:09pm doctorjazz: Hi Gary, Tim, Bodega a shoppers!
	7:10pm Gary: JazzDoc is in!
	🇰🇷 7:10pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Saber Rebai" This is very catchy, that's for sure.
	🇰🇷 7:12pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @7:09 Hey, @doctorj, my playlists are still missing the bubbles, so I had to switch browsers. The shame of it all!
	🇰🇷 7:16pm WR: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:10 see how catchy you think it is after you have heard about 28 versions and variations. Heh heh.
	7:18pm Gary: ↳ WR @7:16 IT JUST GETS MORE CATCHY
	7:18pm doctorjazz: EVERYBODY DANCE!!!!
	🇰🇷 7:19pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Gary @7:18 Pitch correctors and the like turn off the catch for me.
	7:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:12 Sorry about that (as I said, I use Chrome and occasionally Edge on my PC, and Chrome and occasionally Safari on my MacBook. I'm used to Chrome, but some things work better on the other browsers.
	7:21pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Saber Rebai" good evening, Gary! Tim! cranking it!!! i love this song! and have been obsessed too, ever since i first heard it -- early/mid-2000s, i think at a hafla? used to practice dance with my little cat Lefty to this song -- sometimes she seemed to enjoy it? other times she was like, "ok, I will put up with this goofy human" haha! and omg is that Boney M. in the collage?!? ok gotta get back to fixing food -- hardly a hafla, but so happy and grateful to be home, and listening live with you all :)
	7:22pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Cheb Aissa" wow have not heard this version in ages! so cool
	7:23pm Gary: Slugluv!!
	🇰🇷 7:24pm chresti: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:21 Boney M⭐
	7:26pm tim abdellah: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:21 Boney M indeed!
	🇰🇷 7:27pm chresti: The new emojis look like cookies with rounded edges
	7:27pm doctorjazz: Time for dinner, will have the show on!
	🇰🇷 7:36pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid" Donkeys are comedic gold; everyone knows that.
	7:37pm tim abdellah: There's a whole Jerrari album about food: "Les Chansons Gastronomiques De Mohamed Jerrari"
	7:38pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:36 Indeed
	7:38pm Gary: ↳ tim abdellah @7:37 I need that LP
	🇰🇷 7:39pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour (Viens À Mon Appel Ô Mon Seigneur)" ... Subtitle... "Hear my cry, oh Lord"?
	7:41pm tim abdellah: Ah sorry - was gonna translate the lyrics before I had my issue with the notes
	7:42pm tim abdellah: Sidi Mansour is a saint/holy man named Mansour. "Sidi" means literally, my Lord or Sir. can be used to address any male you respect, but is idiomatically used to refer to saints
	7:43pm tim abdellah: And "Baba Bahri", which you heard in the second section translates as like "Father Seaman/Sailor". It's another name for Sidi Mansour
	🇰🇷 7:43pm Listener Gregory: ↳ tim abdellah @7:42 So we should call our host Sidi Gary? Good to know.
	7:46pm Gary: ↳ Song: "Ya Nkheyla" by "Hiyam Younes" This is my favorite version so far
	7:46pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Ya Nkheyla" by "Hiyam Younes" WOW! not familiar with this version -- breathtaking!
	7:46pm slugluv1313: ↳ Gary @7:46 same here!
	7:47pm tim abdellah: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:46 I love this one too!
	7:47pm tim abdellah: The Jerrari probably dates from the late 60's or early 70s
	7:48pm tim abdellah: And the Hiyam Younes dates to 1980 in its original release
	7:49pm headcleaner: Evening and as-salāmu ʿalaykunnᵃ / alaykum, peoples
	7:50pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Allah Allah Ne Zaman" by "Güzin İle Baha" this is gorgeous too! (although at first, i thought it was from a Bollywood film -- DUH! my language ears are rusty)
	7:52pm Gary: The Headcleaner!
	7:54pm Carmichael: Heya Gary and pop stars. Mrs Carmichael had never heard of Boney M. I initiated a course correction.
	7:55pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Alah Alah Ya Baba - Baba Bahreim (bodega edit)" b... This version is interesting. Instead of singing only about Sidi Mansour, this singer dedicates each verse to a different saint
	7:55pm Gary: Theee Carmichael!
	7:55pm Gary: ↳ tim abdellah @7:55 Covering all her bases, smart
	7:55pm slugluv1313: iirc, "sido" is a form of "grandfather" in Arabic -- ? (thinking of Sido restaurant near 72nd Street, NYC)
	7:55pm tim abdellah: ↳ tim abdellah @7:55 I edited out three saints 'cause this track is hella long - apologies
	7:56pm Gary: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:55 Ohhh, I gotta look up that resto
	🇰🇷 7:56pm Listener Gregory: ↳ tim abdellah @7:55 I hope there's no blowback, Tim. Saints can hold a grudge.
	7:57pm tim abdellah: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:56 😂
	7:58pm tim abdellah: ↳ slugluv1313 @7:55 Could be in some dialects. Siyyed means something like "Sir" in direct translation literally
	🇰🇷 8:04pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Sid Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid" I thought Boney M was a saxophone player!!
	8:05pm tim abdellah: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:04 That would be a good sax player name!
	8:05pm Gary: ↳ Song: "Ma Baker" by "Boney M." Pay attention to that ma-ma-ma-ma-ma kids
	8:06pm wimpy: I didn’t know boney m was so big, I only know Rasputin so i always assumed they were some kind of novelty one hit wonder act
	8:06pm Gary: Wimpy!!!
	8:07pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Ma Baker" by "Boney M." damn! i had no idea that Ma Baker was based on Sidi Mansour, but i can totally hear it -- thank you Gary and Tim!
	🇰🇷 8:08pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Ma Baker" by "Boney M." We've gone from a song about a saint to one about an American gangster. There is a lesson here.
	8:08pm wimpy: Hi Gary!
	8:09pm mic_a: Hello Gary, Tim & Beepers! My spectral presence is floating about.
	8:12pm tim abdellah: docs.google.com...
	8:18pm tim abdellah: 1) Shifted off 2 beats from the usual placement of the melody on the 4/4 2) Dropping the 2nd syllable of Baba
	🇰🇷 8:28pm Listener Gregory: Wait, Milli Vanilli??? What did we do to deserve this?
	🇰🇷 8:28pm WR: There is always room for Milli Vanilli and more Sidi Mansour
	8:29pm tim abdellah: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:28 Probably me offening those saints
	🇰🇷 8:30pm Listener Gregory: ↳ tim abdellah @8:29 I guess it's all for the sake of science.
	8:33pm mic_a: Always thought it was Ma Barker... https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/04/ITDotM_MasBoys.jpg (Jack Kirby, 1971)
	8:34pm Gary: Mic_a!
	8:36pm Gary: ↳ Song: "Šmoulí skafandr" by "Šmoulové" Czech Smurf alert!
	8:36pm tim abdellah: ↳ mic_a @8:33 Yes - they changed the name for the song 'cos they thought it sounded better
	🇰🇷 8:36pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Gary @8:36 You're supposed to say that BEFORE the song starts!!
	8:36pm Gary: Šmoulí skafandr = Smurf space suit
	8:37pm mic_a: I can see that point. Or hear it, rather.
	🇰🇷 8:41pm Listener Gregory: Some of these songs have a real kick to them—more than I found in Boney M.
	8:42pm wimpy: No way
	8:43pm tim abdellah: YEEEEESSSS!!
	8:45pm tim abdellah: This whole show was just a rationale to get Gary to play Lady Gaga
	🇰🇷 8:45pm WR: It is dawning on me that perhaps we should consider Sidi Mansour as a genre like blues.
	8:45pm Gary: ↳ WR @8:45 Haha
	8:45pm Gary: ↳ tim abdellah @8:45 OMG
	🇰🇷 8:48pm WR: Do those comments about Lady Gaga mean that Gary has regularly played Milli Vanilli?
	🇰🇷 8:52pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid" Gary, if we told you a year ago that you would some day discuss the relative merits of Boney M and Milli Vanilli on the show, what would you have said?
	8:58pm mic_a: Ooh, nice merging.
	8:58pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:52 Haha
	🇰🇷 8:59pm david w: Hanging on by my fingernails, and thrilled!
	9:00pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Shady Gove/Sidi Mansour" by "Kantara" lovely 💚💜
	🇰🇷 9:00pm WR: ↳ Song: "Shady Gove/Sidi Mansour" by "Kantara" This is interesting. I know of Shady Grove from a few recordings around 1970 and it sounds like it has roots in early UK traditional music.
	9:01pm slugluv1313: ↳ tim abdellah @8:45 😹😹😹
	9:01pm Gary: ↳ david w @8:59 David!!!
	9:01pm Listener Gregory: Well, I did not see the Shady Grove mashup coming.
	9:03pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Rolling in the Deep / Sidi Mansour (From "Wardi &... This is a Sidi Mansour / Adele mashup
	9:04pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Ma Baker" by "Milli Vanilli" omg OF COURSE Milli Vanilli "covers" Boney M. 😸😸
	9:05pm slugluv1313: amazing! really loving this
	🇰🇷 9:07pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Whole Lotta Love + Sidi Mansour (extract)" by "Ro... 🔥😶‍🌫️🔥🛸
	9:08pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Whole Lotta Love + Sidi Mansour (extract)" by "Ro... Justin Adams on guitar
	9:08pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Whole Lotta Love + Sidi Mansour (extract)" by "Ro... ok like any other teenager in 1970s NJ suburbs, i loved Led Zeppelin -- but i swear, the "older" Plant gets, the more i appreciate him
	9:11pm Carmichael: Just today heard the original When the Levee Breaks. 1932, I think.
	9:14pm Gary: ↳ Song: "Ya Baba" by "Fanfara Station" I'm getting Tusk vibes
	9:18pm slugluv1313: ↳ Song: "Ma Baker" by "Boney M." admittedly late to the party with Boney M., the first time i heard them was on Scott Muni's "Things from England" show, Friday afternoons on WNEW-FM -- their version of "Rivers of Babylon" was #1 for many weeks in 1978 DJ Stashu did an incredible version of "Rasputin" for the WFMU marathon finale some years ago and, i would love to see SM Ken do this for the finale -- with the same costuming, choreography, etc. : youtu.be...
	9:19pm rw: Hey! Got here late but I think I’m understanding. Either way’s cool though.
	🇰🇷 9:19pm WR: Looking for info on Robert Plant incorporating Sidi Mansour into his live shows I bumped into a record by Cheikha Rimitti where she does Sidi Mansour and Robert Fripp is on the album (don't know about track details). www.discogs.com...
	🇰🇷 9:19pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid" 💥💥💥💥
	9:21pm slugluv1313: yes! years ago coined the phrase "John Cage it" when the ex and i were trying to understand why we disliked -- or absolutely hated!" -- certain music
	9:24pm slugluv1313: ↳ chresti @7:24 hi chresti!!! (apologies, was fixing food -- just catching up with comments now)
	9:25pm tim abdellah: www.google.com...
	9:27pm Listener Gregory: I have tried the same thing as Sidi Mansour, praying instead of doing my work, but it has never worked out for me.
	9:30pm tom tom the pipers son: been horizontal... in and out of consciousness but dug all the electronic bangers last set
	9:31pm StringOFperils: Hello Gary et al. Really missing this show (have a class on Wed. nights), but hear now!
	9:33pm Gary: StringOFperils and rw!
	9:34pm tim abdellah: moroccantapestash.blogspot.com...
	9:39pm tim abdellah: Cheikh Mohamed Boudaya can be seen above the mosque in the collage artwork on this page
	9:40pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour (early fade)" by "Boudaya" interestingto think back to first tracks played in show which were so "cooked" compared to this which is "raw"....
	9:42pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:40 The Claude Lévi-Strauss effect. Okay, I'll shut up...
	9:42pm slugluv1313: ↳ Gary @7:56 Sido Falafel! 267 Columbus Avenue (near 72nd Street): sidofalafeltogo.com my introduction to Sido was when i was volunteering with NAAP-NY [Network of Arab-American Professionals] and they were vendors at NAAP-NY's yearly street fairs -- OMG the BEST!!! and why i make excuses to go to the upper west side if i can :)
	9:42pm tim abdellah: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:40 Yeah! Quite a journey!
	🇰🇷 9:43pm chresti: ↳ slugluv1313 @9:24 hi slugluv! de nada!
	🇰🇷 9:45pm chresti: really enjoying this! Thanks Tim & Gary!
	9:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @9:42 thanks, i will look that up smartie pants....
	9:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tim abdellah @9:42 in general, we are living in 'cooked' times
	9:47pm tim abdellah: www.youtube.com...
	9:48pm slugluv1313: ↳ tim abdellah @9:39 thanks! who is standing to Boney M.'s right?
	9:49pm slugluv1313: ↳ chresti @9:43 😻😻
	9:50pm StringOFperils: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:45 I was free associating > en.wikipedia.org...
	9:53pm Gary: Yo, music lovers! Stick around after this for Sam Segal's always-already terrific If You Lose Your Horse! Tonight's episode: "A Fenced Horse Feeds Loud in the Back of the Close-Out Store" wfmu.org...
	9:53pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ StringOFperils @9:50 oh thanks, but that's accurate to what i was trying to say
	9:53pm tim abdellah: ↳ slugluv1313 @9:48 Ah - that's from the cover of Richard Jankowsky's book Stambeli
	9:54pm tim abdellah: ↳ tim abdellah @9:53 A Stambeli dancer, holding those chkachek clacky things you're hearning now
	🇰🇷 9:54pm Listener Gregory: What a great show this has been. Thanks so much to Tim for putting all this together. Maybe next time you can cover two songs on one show, if Gary loosens up.
	9:54pm Gary: THANK YOU X 100000 TIM!!!!
	9:55pm slugluv1313: i was looking to see if Orchestre national de Barbès has covered Sidi Mansour -- but coming up empty handed (for some reason i thought that they also had their own version -- ?!?)
	9:55pm tom tom the pipers son: i have been to tunisia but unfortunately did not seek out any music
	9:56pm tim abdellah: Thanks everyone - such a pleasure to be able to share this music with you all and try to connect the dots! And thanks Gary for inviting me!
	9:56pm Gary: ↳ tim abdellah @9:56 Come back any time, Tim!
	9:56pm slugluv1313: what a fantastic glorious fun journey! thanks so much, Gary and Tim!
	9:57pm wimpy: This was a really cool show, thanks! Definitely the spirit of the hellraiser, as in putting on really good shows to entice donations
	9:57pm tom tom the pipers son: thank you tim, the depth of your musical knowledge always a highlight on the playlist...as always thanks gary
	9:58pm StringOFperils: An archive dive for me; sounds well worth it! Thanks Tim! Thanks Gary! Thanks WFMU!
	9:59pm rw: THank you Gary and Tim!!!
	9:59pm slugluv1313: ↳ tim abdellah @9:53 thank you!
	10:05pm Gary: Night and thanks everyone!

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