Various Artists
Romansiyat Raqisa (Romantic Songs for Dancing) Vol. 2
SIDE A
- Sameer Hanna: Ya Qamar Law Reht Ba'eed (Oh Moon, If You Go Far Away)
- Samer: Oyoun Al Soud (Black Eyes)
- Edgar Samaan: Rah Ebka (I Will Stay)
- Yussef Harqous: Zeina Lamma Telleiti (Oh Zeina, When You Appeared)
- Joseph Naseef: Balaki Ya Samra (Without You, Dark Skinned)
- Nadim Barbara: Al Helwi (The Beautiful Girl)
- Ahmad Doughan: Ma Wardi (Rosewater)
SIDE B
- Adeeb Abu Antoine: Hibbeeni Shwayya (Love Me A Little Bit)
- Albair Farhat: Ya Kateb Belaadel (Oh, Notary)
- Sami Klark: Dallouna (They Guided Us)
- Mohammad Sharif: Doubi ya Helwi (Melt, Oh Pretty Girl)
- Nihad Tarabeh: Bayyik Sahebna (Your Father Is Our Good Friend)
- Fahd Akiki: Mili Bkhasrek (Swing Your Hip)
Label
Romance
Sawt Asia
Location Issued
Aleppo, Syria
Artist Origin
Lebanon
More Info
This tape brings together 13 Lebanese pop songs from the eighties by thirteen different singers, all male. Despite the tape's title suggesting it's a collection of danceable romantic songs, both words "danceable" and "romantic" have changed their meaning with time, and with the emergence of the new generation of Lebanese pop and its female stars starting from the nineties, making this tape's songs seem closer to folklore than romance, lacking the personal emotional singing that later dominated, and closer to cultural events than dance floors, lacking the fast and flashy electronic rhythms that became part of Lebanese dance pop's DNA today.