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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Özel Türkbas: How to Make Your Husband a Sultan


Shake It, Baby! Shake It!


Özel Türkbas was a huge talent and a huge star! After starting out as a child star (at the age of seven), in her native Turkey, she went on to play starring roles in fourteen Turkish movies. She was brought to the US by Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, in 1959, in order to appear in the role of La Oriental in his production of Opera Thais.

This is the first of five Belly Dance records she released. She also wrote and published two Belly Dancing books and a Turkish Cookbook.

As Belly Dancing became a huge fad in the United States through the 60s and 70s,
Özel was extremely influential in it's promotion. As a Turk, she wore the traditional Turkish Belly Dancer costume (generally regarded to be considerably "sexier" than some other outfits, but probably the best known type in the rest of the world), but she was always careful to emphasize the beauty and discipline of the dance as opposed to it's more sensual aspects.

Well… Except for the title of this record, I suppose.

Özel Türkbas: How to Make Your Husband a Sultan
  1. Özel's Dance Music
  2. Hoplada
  3. Tín Tín
  4. Tokat
  5. Kandirali Çíftetellí
  6. Taksímler
  7. Anadolu
  8. Fasulya
Note: Each of Özel's albums included at least one selection that was nearly the length of an entire side. If you are going to use this record as a Belly Dancing beginner, let me advise that you might want to skip to the second track as the first is about 14 minutes long and may result in Gut Bustage.

6 comments:

LoungeTracks said...

I've been entranced by Özel Türkbas in the past from either this record or another, the mind fails.

Nonetheless, many thanks for the rip Vic - if I dig up a companion piece to this I'll let you know.

Thanks,
LT

Swank Daddy said...

If this makes my wife treat me like a sultan your place in history and heaven will be assured. Thanks.

Swank Daddy

http://swankliving.blogspot.com/

Traitor Vic said...

No guarantees are made concerning the record's Sultan Making abilities. Sadly, as a matter of fact, the record is aimed at women who wish to make their husbands sultans and don't have a single clue how to go about doing so.

I'm still waiting for someone to record the record "How to Make Your Wife Make You a Sultan".

Anonymous said...

Interesting. Thank you!

Sociologian said...

So sad I missed this!

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