jazz tunes (or standards) with Middle Eastern or Asian place-names...

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Georgia on my mind

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Aral Sea you in my dreams

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On a little street in Singapore - (De Rose/Hill) recorded by Wild Bill Davis

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Moon over Burma - Gene Krupa

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Mission to Moscow - Benny Goodman

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[BFrank]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Java - Al Hirt

Java Jive - Inkspots

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Joshua fit the battle of Jericho - Baby Face Willette

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Pyramid - MJQ

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

In a Persian Market - The Skatalites

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

On the road to Mandalay - Dunno who

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

And where, precisely, is "The land of Oo-blah-dee"? Certainly not in the Americas or Europe.

MG

[BillF]

Almost forgot - Little Egypt - the Leiber-Stoller tune done by The Coasters.

Road to Morocco is just about OK since Bing was slightly a bit jazzy - but we ARE looking for tunes at least done by jazz bands (What about "Ahab the Arab"?)

Little Niles - Randy Weston

MG

Little Niles was Randy Weston's son. It's nothing to do with the river!

[Swinging Swede]

Mission to Moscow - Benny Goodman

Not again!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! How could I have forgotten

Egypt land - FRED JACKSON!!!!

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Almost forgot - Little Egypt - the Leiber-Stoller tune done by The Coasters.

Road to Morocco is just about OK since Bing was slightly a bit jazzy - but we ARE looking for tunes at least done by jazz bands (What about "Ahab the Arab"?)

Little Niles - Randy Weston

MG

Little Niles was Randy Weston's son. It's nothing to do with the river!

Yes.

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=733004

MG

[Harold_Z]

Nagasaki - done by countless swing era bands

Madagascar - the version I know was done by Wilbur DeParis, but it predats him

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Mission to Moscow - Benny Goodman

Not again!

Oh, all right - I suppose Moscow IS west of the Urals. I did prefer it in asia, however

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Nagasaki - done by countless swing era bands

Madagascar - the version I know was done by Wilbur DeParis, but it predats him

We've had Ngasaki early in the thread. And if I can't have Moscow, you can't have Madagascar.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Indian love song - Bo Rhambo (and others) (and yes, I know)

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[Harold_Z]

On the road to Mandalay - Dunno who

MG

It;s on Sinatra's "Come Fly With Me" album. Not sure who wrote it without looking it up.

[White Lightning]

Charles Tyler - Voyage From Jericho

[seeline]

And where, precisely, is "The land of Oo-blah-dee"? Certainly not in the Americas or Europe.

MG

Have you ever heard the lyrics? IIRC, it's a "Through the Looking Glass" - or maybe more of a sci-fi- kind of place...

Also, I think - would have to check to be sure - that Randy Weston's "Little Niles" is about his son, not the river.

Best!

Edited January 19, 2008 by seeline

[Rooster_Ties]

Georgia on my mind

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

And where, precisely, is "The land of Oo-blah-dee"? Certainly not in the Americas or Europe.

MG

Have you ever heard the lyrics? IIRC, it's a "Through the Looking Glass" - or maybe more of a sci-fi- kind of place...

I have indeed - Joe Carroll's version with Grant Green and Conrad Lester on Charlie Parker records. I think it may be how you hear it. I can see what you mean, but I've always thought of the song in terms of 1001 Arabian Nights.

And welcome Seeline!

MG