Do you love me?

March 7, 2007 at 1:24 am · Filed under Arab Culture, Art, Music


[Kuwaitism via 2:48 AM]

Isn’t this the awesomest thing you’ve ever seen? The clothes… the English mixed with Arabic… the bellydancing… The Brady Bunch look… the Bandalis!

Why wasn’t I a teenager in the 70′s?

I used to love Rimi Bandali (notice that video below is on the newly branded JTV, I can’t believe they still show Rimi Bandali! How very vintage of them).

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  • http://muoffaq.qabbani.net Qabbani

    i love Rimi Bandali wow

    how old this song is….

  • http://hareega.blogspot.com hareega

    ghassel wejjak ya 2amaar bil sabooneh wel 7ajaar waynak ya amar

  • LoML

    Yes I Do

  • Ayyob

    OMG Roba U are awesom. I have been looking for the Rimi Bandali song for ever. It pops in my head all the time.
    And that other song is pretty cool

  • http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/ Ala’a Ibrahim

    cool!

  • saned

    the mustache…the horror…lol…pretty awesome

  • http://kekosworld.blogspot.com KeKo

    Do I love you?! shoo betqooloi! ;) never took you an the average Jordanian girl :P

    thou on a serious note yel3an ka2s el 3alam, the reem bandali song put a lump im my throught!

  • http://omars2cents.blogspot.com Omar Salaymeh

    I LOVE IT!
    Thanks for sharing, especially the second song.. I had a secret crush on Bandali, come to think of it, I think I still do

  • http://zozo2k3.blogspot.com Yazan

    I think that Rimi Bandali is the essence of childhood in every levantine…
    I used to have a crush on her too Omar.. ;)

  • http://www.7aki-fadi.blogspot.com/ 7aki Fadi

    This is too funny, I have not thought about Bandali for so long, and today , before I read this post, I was singing one of her songs to my daughter, I guess there’s some force out there making us think about her…spooooky.

  • http://www.7aki-fadi.blogspot.com/ 7aki Fadi

    And by the way, I still remember the lyrics to most of her songs, kinda sad, no?

  • 3aBBaS

    Hmm Has anything noticed the sign ” lel 3a2elat faqat” in the first song? O ba3dain!!

  • 3aBBaS

    anything*=anyone

  • http://soulblossom.wordpress.com/ Hala

    Cool I love the first one :P

    As for Rimi Bandali, I searched for her songs on YouTube not too long ago, and I could only find 2 songs.

    LOL @ Omar and his still existing crush :D

  • http://www.redrosea.jeeran.com redrose

    7aki Fadi..It’s not only you..I checked her songs the other day..specially na7na el rabii3 song..tks for sharing Roba..the idea just crossed my mind ;0)

  • http://wedadf.jeeran.com/ wedz

    when i was at rimi age, people told me that i look like her :S
    i love this girl :)

  • http://injis.wordpress.com Juka

    Would you believe there was a cover of the first song a couple of years back. Didn’t know song was this old, guy had a whole desert safari camp fire rapper motife going. Nostalgic post :)

  • http://mazz1983.wordpress.com Mazz

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    you made 1000000 memories rush back into my head!
    whatever happened to remi?

  • http://blog.sweetestmemories.com Qwaider قويدر

    Priceless! Somehow, I discovered that I completely memorised those lyrics! Maybe I was listening to this song in a previous life! It’s just … ahh .. can’t find words!
    ضو يو لوف مي؟
    ضو يو ضو يو ..
    ضو يو وانط مي
    ضو يو ضو يو
    ضو يو نيد مي ..
    ضو يو ضو يو
    ضو ضو يو … ضو ضويو.. ضض ضويو ضوضو يو ضضويو

    /×/

  • ظلال

    well, just came accross these two on your site. i have no idea who rimi is, but i understand the feeling of nostalgia for our past (i just had someone send me “and you know my name is simon and things i draw come true” cartoon song from my childhood (probably way b4 yours) and i played it for 2 days!!

    as to the fist clip, i thought it was sad, a bunch of young people who are lost, don’t know who they really are..lost was all i can think of when i saw them :(

    have a splendid day

  • http://abedmiqdadi.blogspot.com AquaPhoenix

    I loved the 1st one, its so cheap yet it has a nostalgic feel to it… plus that guy looks like my dad in the 60′s/70′s transition era, then he started losing his hair.. :P

  • http://mazz1983.wordpress.com Mazz

    @Aquaphoenix: dewd, kul ahaleena heik kanat ashkalhom! i have proof that i use whenever a conversation about how people are “saybeen” these days….i just take out that 30-year-old photo album and the silence becomes the only thing you hear.
    evil…i know :D

  • http://confessionsofavegetarianshark.blogspot.com/ Ammar

    Interesting, I actually am an advocate of time travelling back to the 60s 70s and 80s, those where extremely cool days..socially, putting the 67 war, the lebanese civil war and the lebanon invasion in 78 and 82 aside!!

    But here’s the catch..roba, had you been a teenager in the 70s you’d be a miserable middle aged woman with 7 children now..so forget that and boogie on!

  • http://confessionsofavegetarianshark.blogspot.com/ Ammar

    One more thing, I was actually in the audience at that bandali concert, it was in the royal cultural center circa 1985

  • http://katsaidso.blogspot.com Kat

    A couple of months ago I spent a whole evening searching for her songs and I actually found a couple. I also found the theme song of Grandizer and Treasure Island that same evening. I stayed awake until dawn, just playing them over and over again. It was as if I was a fas3oune again, playing in some small Damascene street.

    I’m definitely playing Rimi Bandali in the car when I’ll be in Damascus this summer!

  • http://makkirator.blogspot.com Ozz

    in the 70′s the life was easier .. fashion was nicer … music was deeper … and radicalism was higher . nowadays none of those elements can be found. I know my words sound like an aged man … I unfortinately came to this life in the the first year of the 80′s decade … and i never experienced the beauty of the previous one. … nice video roba

  • http://homeaway-sam.blogspot.com/ sam

    damn, that song brings back so many memories, I still remember lots of her lyrics to her songs too. I dont think any arab kid living in the mideast back in the 80′s didnt know her song very well…even my brother used to secertly listen to her.

  • Dana

    Wow..this topic is really popular, too many children in adults’ bodies I guess
    speaking of vintage, my friend recommended this today…it is so awesome…it has all my favorite cartoons theme songs. they have SHNAKEL and SANDY BELL and MAROCO. REALLY all of them, live was so much more imaginative before I was introduced to Disney cartoons. I also learned some valuable Arabic vocabularies from those shows. ahhhh ayam zaman
    again this is the website enjoy
    http://alsaher.com/cartoons/index4.htm

  • Sam

    Hi folks, Hi Roba,

    I came across your blog by coincidence, while doing research for a boring translation project – and now I am behind with schedule because:
    (1) I spent an hour leafing through your blog,

    then

    (2) I went off looking for Remi Bandali.

    What the heck for? I was a teenager in the 70s in Egypt, but a very nerdy one, so I read a lot and didn’t watch TV. I never knew of the kid. But watching the first video clip, and then reading the comments, I thought – what the… – I know how to find things, so maybe I could feed the nostalgia of a few of your readers. So here is my first goodwill present http://www.banadoura.com/articles.php?id=72
    (surprise?) and here is my second (I hope you folks have ADSL): http://www.arabic.com.au/publications/remi_bandali.rm. Nothing much changed, has it? Ya Allah, shu hat al-hayat!

    Sam in Oz

  • Ayyob

    This is a really famous post Roba. When was the last time a post got 29 comments in such a quick instance like that?

  • http://sileas.wordpress.com izzi

    I want ‘ghasil weji ya amar’ where can i find it?

  • alias

    Awwwwwwwwwwwww :’(((((

    I was fine until I saw this, I want to be 7 again!! Life was sooo much easier as a kid :(

  • Hanna

    Ya Allah, that was a long time ago… I’m Saudi and I used to watch Remi as a child and know her songs. I remember we sang this song and performed it on stage when I was five at the end of the school year ( tamheedi) in front of the mothers.. I still remember the moves. Our teacher was Lebanese. I love Remi’s movie ” Amni ta7t qaws quza7 ” and all the songs in it.. I still sing them to myself from time to time.. Someday if I had my own kindergarten, I want to teach the children to perform some of Remi’s songs on stage especially ” Ya talj al 3eed “.

  • Hanaa

    By the way, I e-mailed Zahi Wahbi and asked him to interview Remi in his show ” ’7alleek bil bait” and he said he will work on it…

  • adel

    hey,i write arabic songs,if u r interested jus contact me,byeeee

  • adel

    my e_mail is, devil_of_locve_53@hotmail.com ,and i wanna sell out my songs,can anybody help!!!!!!!

  • adel

    devil_of_love_53@hotmail.com —————->the right e_mail address

  • Hind

    izzi
    March 9, 2007 @ 12:06 am

    I want ‘ghasil weji ya amar’ where can i find it?

    Hi izzi, i know its little bit late to answer you, but i sow your comment today, so here you can find the song if you didnt find it already!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH9opLSIwiw

    Have it gooood !!!