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need help with song linda linda

oudplayer - 6-12-2006 at 12:37 PM

hey all
does anyone know the song linda linda by haim moshe its a old song i really wanna play it bc at least the first part bc iots my dads favorite song and i wanna sarprize him for his birthday .
if soemone can just play it on the oud or movie it slowly that would be great one can even wing it i just need the jist of it
thx sammy

Marina - 6-13-2006 at 07:08 AM

Here is the link where you can buy the disc with the song Linda Linda:

http://he.israel-music.com/haim_moshe/his_greatest_hits-8474/

Linda finally

sydney - 6-13-2006 at 04:35 PM

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Originally posted by oudplayer
hey all
does anyone know the song linda linda by haim moshe its a old song i really wanna play it bc at least the first part bc iots my dads favorite song and i wanna sarprize him for his birthday .
if soemone can just play it on the oud or movie it slowly that would be great one can even wing it i just need the jist of it
thx sammy


Hello Sammy,

I was asked for this song long ago by Palstine - and I let him down many times.

I hope he forgives me.

Here is a slow playing for it. Playing starts at g open string

and the notes goes as follows ...

* First part.

2x g (a flat) g f (a flat) g , 2x g (a flat) g f (e flat) f (e flat) d g.

{played two times}.

* Second part.

2x g f (e flat) d c – 2x f (e flat) d c (b flat) – (b flat) c d (e flat) f 2x (b flat) 2x (a flat) g.

oudplayer - 6-13-2006 at 07:34 PM

hey emad
wow i can say you are a life saver , with out you i could not have dont this. who is the oraginal persopn who sang this song.i know haim moshe from yemen did a great job with it
what are the lyrics for this song?
thx alot
p.s how do u tune yr oud

sydney - 6-13-2006 at 07:48 PM

You are welcome Sammy,

To my knowledge it is a Lebanese folk song. I could be wrong. We have lots of lebanese members here to tell more.

I tune my oud to CFAdgc - if you have five strings then FADgc will do.

Enjoy the song and Happy birthday to your father.

John Erlich - 6-13-2006 at 08:29 PM

Shalom Sammy,

Israel-Music.com also sells a DVD with a version by Samir Shukry, a Palestinian-Israeli singer and violinist/oudist: http://www.israel-music.com/samir_shukri/greatest_hits/dvd/ There is no sample of this version from the DVD, but I have his old cassette, "Hafla," which has a famous and more traditional version (lots of violin and qanoun) of the song than Haim Moshe's version (which I also have).

I re-listened to and played with both versions last night and they play the song in the key of B (!) Kurd (?).

Don't forget that 2 versions of this song, appropriately irreverant (in my opinion) Arabic/Hebrew bilingual versions in my opinion, were recorded by 3 Mustaphas 3, sample here: http://www.noside.com/Catalog/CatalogAlbum_01.asp?Album_ID=1

And I think Emad is right about the song being from Lebanon.

Shalom/Salaam,
Udi John

samzayed - 6-13-2006 at 10:57 PM

It is a Lebanese song. I believe it was popularized by George Wassouf in the 70's. Haim Moshe just covers it - actually a lot of Israeli singers sing arabic songs, sometimes in arabic and sometimes they translate them in hebrew.

oudplayer - 6-14-2006 at 04:50 AM

hey all
thx for all of yr help i basicly got the info that i need.
thx sammy