Miserlou: an Egyptian girl conquers America, Greek Song Music

[EclipzeSolar]

SOUNDS VERY ANCIENT AN FASCINATING

[renofirvine]

i thought this voice sounded familiar---i have a 78 from the 20s of him singing 'valencia'

[darthozoz]

in Turkish, by Zeki Muren - "Yarali Gonlum"

[apsconstruction]

Greek song!!!!!!!.first time Alexandria!!!!!!! yes!!Greek-Egyptian histopy!!!About MEGA ALEXANDRO !!!!

[dbingamon]

This song became popular in early American Yiddish Theater (Jewish Music) as a group of Jews visited the family burial site of Midian to pay respect to Moses. At the same time, there were Druze meeting there to pay respect to Midian. Though the two groups present were a bit strained relations, they had some good times and shared some music together. That is how Miserlou because a popular song in Jewish music as well.

[pentogram23]

Its a world known fact that this was a Greek written song.....

[egyption0ghetto]

I Honestly Donno Wht These Songa Say,But I Can understand From Ppl's Comments Is that,The Artist Is An Greek Poet That lived In ALexandria And Feel Inlove With An Egyptian Girl So He Wrote Her This Song is that correct?!

I Can See That All These Songs Have Egyptian/Arabic Tunes In It And Some Arabic Words

While I Was In The U.S.A. I Had 2 Greek Teachers Who I Respected And Love ..We Would Always Talk About Alexander And Greek/Egyptian History .. I LOVE GREEK PEOPLE =) .. THEIR JUST SO NICEEEE!

[bassemsl1]

@egyption0ghetto

i agree with that

[heidilee10001]

MUSIC TO CUT YOUR THROAT BY..

[JAYGRECO]

its arabic/egyptian origin from arabic word misr what is meaning egypt

[saltadoros08]

many people can live without god but nobady wants to live without music!

music is our true god

[waelhakam111]

Egyptian love Greek people and greek same feeling

[heidilee10001]

@waelhakam111 MY EGYPTIAN FRIEND LOVE ME..AND IM ENGLISH..LOL

[apsconstruction]

@waelhakam111 Tank you!!!!

[apsconstruction]

@waelhakam111 Thank you!!!!

[apsconstruction]

@waelhakam111 

[apsconstruction]

@waelhakam111 thank you!!!i am from Greece!!!!

[rabbiyaakov1]

None of them are as good with this song as Geula Gill & The Oranim Zabor.

[beatrizquiroz]

amazing..and amazing how dick dale turned it into surf rock!

[ONSTAGERECORDSUK]

No its mine i composed it 700 years ago

[white2heart]

No,no.for misserlou...what happend was that a greek poet who lived in egypt Fell in love with egyptian girl so he wrote that song for her and few arabic words were in the song, he lived in alexandria and his house is turned as a museum in Azarita area

[CRONALDO4EV]

the character of byzantium was not european at all!..every tradition plus th music were heavily influenced by the Middle Eastern ones..

[saltadoros08]

@CRONALDO4EV what a crap analusis

[FrankCoffman]

Thanks for this video with different versions of Misirlou.

[politexnitis4]

1940 ορ 1927?

[Gutsyndicate]

This song has Islamic/ Middle Eastern influences. remember Greek was colonized by Ottoman empire.

[annitanguera]

Actually, this is music from Minor Asia where the Greeks have coexisted with the Turkish for much longer than other grek areas.

[delicious2323]

Youtube ? How can we give 6 stars to this ?

[wolfsd24]

vobero anevasma h ektelesis einai pan paleais kai an fantasis oti exoyn ftasi mexris to Soundtrack tou Pulp Fiction kai to 'Pump It' ton black eyes peas sixaritiria para poli kali doulia !!!

[saltadoros08]

mia aigyptiopoula sti n ellada...

[PiNkLoLiPoPs]

This song is so haunting and beautiful. I was thrilled to come across the many interpretations of this song compiled together.

[shautora]

Is he using western note intervals here? Some of the notes sound a bit flat....

[shautora]

By which of course I meant the first guy, before I realized it was a compilation =$

[zerohero99]

Thanks for this - I am a big fan of late 1950s/early 60s american surf music and always knew much of it sounded greek/latin/middle eastern but was unaware that Miserlou was a well established greek classic.

[AITWLOS]

We are cool don't worry about it! I know that there is a lot of talk about the composer of Misirlou ... but who knows? :)

[AITWLOS]

You sound very confident, like you know for sure! For misirlou as many of the rebetika songs of that time the composer is unknown. The person you refer to is just a speculation. Any way this song was brought up by Greeks and the rebetiko song was developed by them!

[Marigoulamou]

Composer = N. Roubanis. He was not Jewish.

[videotuna]

the composer was not N,Roubanis, he took credit as composer when he released a jazz version in 1941. but the piece pre-dates him,

The song was first performed by the Michalis Patrino rebetiko band in Athens, Greece in 1927.

no one's knows who the composer is... so the argument is actually quite silly becuase no one knows...!

[XPHCTOC]

and his name was?

[Yazeezz]

i love all arabic-greek and turkish

coz we are the old countries and the old cultures <3

[aktinotos]

Performed right now on NET :-)

[aigokairos]

every time i hear this great song, i close my eyes and beginn to dream. I dream something beautiful - feel like in 1000 and 1 nights...

thx for posting it :-)

[ramses0101]

the bolero is inspired from this

[Thirdweirdo]

this version is as good, if not better, as the modern one

[VirusMagic]

Very beautiful!! Thanx to the uploader..

[plerimest]

@ fuidb - well I think everybody knows that!

[Ptahris]

When he said "Akh ya habibi akh ya laili" It has a bit Arabic in it too..

[FUIDB]

this song is used as the theme song in the movie pulp fiction and it is performed by dick dale..

[romeikos2]

The construction -lis in Greek is an adoption from the Turkish, but in Greek they make a distinction between male and female so "misirlis" is an Egyptian male and "misirlou" is an Egyptian female. In rebetiko songs you will find such words as sevdalis/sevdalou, hasiklis/hasiklou, etc.

[egyption2003]

masri for male , masria for female in arabic !!

welcome to egypt ;)

hahaha

[pentogram23]

@romeikos2 Greek is such a rich language hundreds of words in Greek used world wide....especially in western civilization..........Thank God for their flavor..