Various - Give Me Love - The Brokenhearted Of Baghdad, 1925-1929

1.     Ya Yumma Weya Baba
Mulla Abdussaheb
2.     Min Fergetak Lilyom
Sayed Abbood
3.     Soubhanak Allah
Dahi Ben Walid
4.     Khouthni Bthemmetak
Sultana Youssef
5.     Abuthiyya
Salim Daoud
6.     Taqsim
Khedayer Bin Kessab
7.     Anouh Izal Hathy
Mulla Seoud El Koweity
8.     Kassem Miro
Said El Kurdi
9.     Wehak El Kab Walkossein
Siddiqa El Mullaya
10.     Fahasboukom Hatha
Hdhairy Abou Aziz
11.     Taqsim
Kemani Noubar
12.     Lega Taresh Habibi
Badria Anwar
13.     Aman Aman Zakko
Said El Kurdi
14.     Ma Tehenn Alayya
Siddiqa El Mullaya
15.     Shlon Aslak
Sayed Abbood
16.     Taqsim
Kementchedji Alecco
17.     Abney Eqdah - Part 1
Salim Daoud
18.     Abney Eqdah - Part 2
Salim Daoud
19.     Wenini
Hdhairy Abou Aziz
20.     Malek Ana
Sultana Youssef
21.     Ahis Ras Eddelil
Badria Anwar
22.     Taqsim
Saleh Ibrahim


Honest Jon's has spent the last eighteen months delving through more than 150,000 78 rpm records in the extensive EMI Archives at Hayes, Middlesex. The results of this trawl can be heard on the Hayes Archive series, an epic 12 albums covering early recordings of music from Iraq, Turkey, Caucasia, the Lebanon, Greece, Iran (including sides made in Old Street, London, in 1909), Egypt and the Belgian Congo.

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