Ismael Ahmed, Aliya Ogdie Hassen, and the Little-Known Story of the Cairo Record Company and the Middle East Record & Film Company
Ismael Ahmed, Aliya Ogdie Hassen, and the Little-Known Story of the Cairo Record Company and the Middle East Record & Film Company Elie Younes, "Take Me With You in Your Car," #151. Courtesy of Richard M. Breaux collection. https://youtu.be/gS_NWD6eR7E My intention to write this post began in a wholly different place than it ended. I bought a Nour al-Hoda 78 record on the Middle East Record Co. label back in December 2020 as a part of a package deal. The seller listed and offered a lot of three 78s, two by Hanan on a different label and one by Nour al-Hoda. I had previously written about Hanan, had the fortune of meeting her sister in 2018, and continue to listen to Hanan’s music. Because I rarely sell discs(I often trade), I never gave the Middle East Record Co. disc much thought, so it went into my general record stash until a month later. I searched online databases, including Discogs, with hopes of finding something about the Middle East Record Co. label; I c...