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Belly Dancing at the Cafe Feenjon

The Feenjon Group
Album cover for the release Belly Dancing at the Cafe Feenjon. New York’s City’s Café Feenjon, known for its popularity among Near Eastern music fans, showcased a number of well-known musicians in its day (1970s to mid-1980s), including Herschel Bernardi, Eartha Kitt, and José Feliciano. On this recording, the Feenjon Group, named after this café, gathers for a night of music. Musicians Menachem Dworman, Margalit Ankory, Jerry Sappir, Angelo Saridis, Ali Hafid, and Jimmy Linardos provide vocals, with Steve Knight on guitar and Lou Mavrogian on bass. Song themes include love, nature, and longing, and are performed in Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Turkish, and Spanish.

Track Listing

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The Feenjon Group
01:27
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The Feenjon Group
02:58
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The Feenjon Group
03:33
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The Feenjon Group
04:27
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The Feenjon Group
03:46
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The Feenjon Group
03:18
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The Feenjon Group
04:18
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The Feenjon Group
03:04
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The Feenjon Group
04:07
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The Feenjon Group
03:08
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The Feenjon Group
03:02
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The Feenjon Group
02:17