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"A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in 1942. [2] He wrote it while he was playing with the Benny Carter band. It has become a jazz standard. It is also known as "Interlude", [3] and with lyrics by Raymond Leveen was recorded by Sarah Vaughan in 1944. [4] [5]
The lyrics come from a poem written in the 1930s by Egyptian poet Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe'ie.Although some say the melody of this march was composed by Mohammed Abdel Wahab, [1] Tunisian musicologist Salah El Mahdi claims the melody was composed by the poet Ahmed Kheireddine [] while the original music for the poem was composed by Zakariyya Ahmad.
"Around the World" is a song by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, appearing as the opening track on their seventh studio album Californication (1999). The song was released as the album's second single on August 23, 1999. The single peaked at number seven on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 16 on the Mainstream Rock ...
Yemen and Pakistan both made the list -- because of instability within their borders, and the presence of terrorist groups like Al-Qaida and the Taliban.
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Lyrics are sung by a soloist or in unison by a chorus, and are chosen from the muwashshah or zajal poetic forms, which are in classical and colloquial Arabic, respectively. [ 4 ] An andalusi nubah uses one tab' (similar to a maqam , or mode) per performance, and includes several instrumental pieces as well as predominantly vocal pieces ...
The song by Naccache and El Mahdi won, and the nation formally adopted it on 20 March, Tunisia's Independence Day, that year. "Ḥumāt al-Ḥimā" replaced "ʾAlā Khallidī", following the 1987 Tunisian coup d'état , which brought Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to power on 7 November 1987.
The song became their fourth top-10 hit in the United Kingdom, charting at number three on the UK Singles Chart. It was a top-10 hit also in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Zimbabwe. The music video for "Around the World" was directed by Katie Bell.