Schooled | Taealamtuha Buqaa (1974)

Poster for the 1974 film Laenat Aimraa
“It’s just so crass,” my friend said. “You like Ahmed Adaweya because he’s crass. You like him for the same reason you like this coffee shop, because it’s crappy.” --Anand Balakrishnan
This post presents a minor dilemma: I recently got my hands on a 1974 single by our man that hasn't yet been cataloged on Discogs. This would not be an issue were it not for the fact this blog is chronological, and finding this previously forgotten 45 happened months after I'd posted all of his known vinyl (except for one LP I haven't yet found a copy of) and started in on the cassettes.

We'll call it Chapter 8a for the time being with the promise to bump it up to 9 and then renumber the rest of blog in a couple of days. UPDATE: Renumbering done.

While this iteration of the two songs on this 7" might be something of a revelation, neither of these tracks are unknown to serious Ahmed fans. The A Side, "Taealamtuha Buqaa," with lyrics by Hassan Abo Etman and music by Hassan Abu El Seoud, appears on this cassette collection and this vinyl LP. And Side B's mawwal, co-written by the aforementioned Hassans, is on one of the mawwal collections, I think volume 2, which I'll post in the coming days.

What is a revelation is how hard they bop at 45 RPMs. And, possible bonus, I'll go out on a limb to say that it may be Ahmed's final smack-back to his critics before he abandoned the medium for magnetic tape.

For instance: If Google Translate can be relied upon at all, the lyrics, while seemingly chiding a (prospective?) lover, could easily be leveled at the artist's critics:

"And suddenly I find you hurting me, it is love making fun of you
learn it, learn it hard"

Another for instance: Google Translate wants us to believe that one of the possible translations of the B Side's "Mawwal Habeit Gadeid" might be "Mawwal: I Love The New" or "Mawwal: New Love," in other words, you go on and try to hurt me, I'm on to something new. 

(Listen to "Taealamtuha Buqaa")

(Listen to "Mawwal Habeit Gadeid")

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