[78-L] Allah's Holiday

David Weiner djwein at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 17 14:27:48 PDT 2014


There's a lovely instrumental version on Victor by Ray Noble's 1935
American band. 

Dave Weiner

On 3/17/14, 3:26 PM, "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com> wrote:

>Lyrics here:
>http://arabkitsch.com/directory/allahs-holiday
>
>And the plot here:
>http://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/11/21/musical-month-katinka
>Note that the song is sung by the female hero of the play, who pretends
>to be a harem girl.
>Kristjan
>
>On 2014-03-17 19:02, Julian Vein wrote:
>> On 17/03/14 17:27, Birgit Lotz Verlag wrote:
>>> Friml used this piece in his musical KATINKA. Does anyone know in which
>>> context? Does it have lyrics?? What is it about?
>>>
>>> Dr. Rainer E. Lotz
>>>
>> ============
>> Just played it. The lyric seems ambiguous, it could either refer to an
>> unspecified person, or perhaps a description of paradise?
>>
>> You can hear it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLxZu_5lPA
>>
>>        Julian Vein
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