Re: Turkish tuneage

[Lelia Ellen Raley <leliar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, JOANNA  M wrote:
> I know this song that is on a tape I have and its about some guy who spends
> all his $$$$ and has to spend the night in this place watching belly dancers
> and some guy tries to pick a fight with him and there is a redhead he really
> likes that does a special dance.  It sounds soooo Turkish!.  But I dont
> think its Turkish they sing in English

I never saw a response to this question - sorry if I just missed it.
Anyway, could it be "Stop, Stop, Stop" by the Hollies?  It SEEMS it
might.

Lola



 so they are just being influenced by
> the sound.  I come from a place close to Turkey so I know what their music
> sounds like.  So does anybody know who this song is by or who sings it????.
> >
> >Hey Bompers,
> >
> >I know this will mean very little to anyone on the list at this moment.
> >         But, at the moment, (as mentioned earlier) I've been listening and
> >learning about Turkish beat, and one of the Turkish legends, Baris Manco,
> died
> >of a heart attack yesterday morning.
> >
> >Quick Turkish history
> >Like everywhere else in the world, Turkish teens started picking up guitars
> to
> >play rock influenced by Hank Marvin + The Shadows, and then the Beatles and
> >the Stones. some Turkish folk elements (folk instruments and folk tunes)
> >slipped in occasionaly.then in '68, the top rock musicians in Istanbul had
> a
> >meeting at the Hotel Konak.  They consciously decided to start putting in
> more
> >of these
> >folk elements and ANADOLU ROCK was born. western rock mixed with Turkish
> >folk. they truly created a unique music style.(Crazy huh!)  (There were
> >beat bands, soul bands, and garage bands, even girl bands (although I
> haven't
> >heard any yet (Sorry Glynis))).  Most of these Anadolu bands had lots of
> psych
> >influence. A lot morepsych was released  there than beat.
> >
> >One of the greatest artists I've been admiring was Baris Manco,who along
> with
> >Erkin Koray formed the 1st rock band in Turkey in 1956.  Baris was the
> leading
> >popularizer of rock in Turkey, performing rock n roll and rhythm n blues
> >regularly on the radio here back in 1959. He continued to play rock
> >until 1983 when his sound got softer and less interesting. (to people
> >like you and me) (actually, most of his recorded stuff from the early
> >'60s until the mid to late '70s is worth hearing). However, he was much
> >more than a rock n roller in Turkey. His death is considered the passing of
> a
> >cultural icon whose life and music affected people of all ages in
> >Turkey, somewhat analogous to the deaths of Elvis, Frank Sinatra, or
> >John Lennon in the US.
> >
> >As I said, this doesn't mean very much to anyone at the moment, but I am
> told
> >that the best of this stuff is already being compiled for compilations
> through
> >a label in Holland.  So when you finally hear it, you know why I was so
> amazed
> >by his songwriting.            Tony
> >
> >
>