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Sousan :(

Many thanks to all who posted songs of Sousan.

Harchand I did not care for her style much, but I so respected the woman who came from extremely sad past, made an everlasting name for herself, but sadly died in obscurity, and penniless.

It brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to her songs, and remember the hardship that she went through. I realize in those moments that WE as Iranians, do not take care of our artists in their times of needs. Artist like Sousan who introduced a music style that was so unique to her times, which surly affected the Iranian music in a profound way.

Her low smoky voice had this certain sadness to it which hit the  cord in every ones heart and soul.

Bless your soul Sousa, be in peace, some people only get a break when they go to heavens.    :(

-YT 

Ahh the ears too, forgot about the Ears! Ears! Peck! Peck! Hair!

Everything is sacred.

Congratulations my dear MPD!

I can't believe that this blog has more comments than other blogs about the green movement or about Reza pahlavi!!!

Congratulations my dear friend! You are a true genius!

BTW, I almost fainted last night...but I talked to Pamuk, gave him my story, even did a short interview on an obscure Turkish TV about Pamuk!! He was the most charming man...

But going back to the subject of your blog: Aghassi, the man who could sing, jump, shake, clap, and at the same time move his ears.

Ok I AM KIDDING! Don't kill me...

Joking aside, I have the most respect for Aghassi because he was a true "mardomi" singer, coming from the poorest and taking a whole country by his charm...a real self-made man. Actually, I saw him a few years ago in LA, and he was a great entertainer. He seemed sweet, down to earth and humble... and we all danced and everyone went crazy and had a good time. R.I.P. Aghassi!

Az.

Thank you all for your participation in this cultural blog

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Thank you Yolanda for trying to figure out our culture.  I promise you we'll treat you like one of us, which means we'll jump on your case once in a while.
Thank you sweet Monda.
Thank you bahram9821.  Although I've hardly ever left a comment in any of your video clip blogs, I am aware of your tireless effort to preserve those moments of our lives in the digital format and I want to thank you for it.
Thank you Anahid for giving me this idea of translating Ameneh song.  If it wasn't for your translation of Bob Dylan's songs I probably would not have looked in this direction.
Thank you Anonymouse.  You're a righteous dude.
Thank you maziar 58.  Your dam is hotter than a ton of hot breaks from the hotest kooreh'ha'e ajoorpazis in Iran!
Thank you HollyUSA.  You have a lot of gusto.
Thank you Javad Yassari.  You're a great artist yourself.
Thank you Nadia for always being a great fan.
Thank you Red Wine.  I've always enjoyed your writings also.
Thank you Farnoosh for visiting and looking up that video clip.
ebi, sepaas
Thank you Little Tweet for visiting my branch.
Thank you Shifteh  for keeping an eye on us.
Thank Pedro.  I'm glad I was able to post this blog on time, I almost missed the day.
Thank you bajenagh.  I have no talent compared to yours, my friend.
Thank you capt_ayhab.   He is truly missed.
Thank you bot shekan for visiting this blog.  I'll try harder to balance between ghafiyeh and vazn, it's not an easy task.
Thank you Ari for being such a great fan of art.
Thank you Mona 19 for visiting this blog.
Thank you Azarin.  You've always been a great supporter of my writings and I do appreciate it greatly.  I hope you got a chance to talk to Orhan Pamuk last night.

I hope I didn't miss anyone.  I'm overwhelmed.

You should dance in the subject line & I won't peck again cause

You should dance in the subject line & I won't peck again (in the subject line ;-) cause I'm afraid MPD may get upset and tanbihemoon koneh!

Now if others join the dance and peck, especially MPD himself or his creator, I'll peck again too! lol

Aah! Aah! Peck! Peck! Hair! Hair! Napkin! Aah! Aah! Shoulders! Shake! Shake! Peck! Peck!  

Everything is sacred.

LOL Anonymouse jan

You're a riot. Remind me to invite you to my next party dude.

Man goftam barat peck miam cuz you obviously weren't giving up so I thought if that's what it takes then so be it.  Vagarna I ain't no Bandari expert. The hair thing is just a fluke. But since you have the 'reng' going I'm gonna join in. Boro berim.. Aah! Aah! Peck! Peck! Hair! Aah! Napkin! Aah! Shoulders! Shake!

Aah! Aah! Peck! Peck! Hair! Hair! Napkin! Aah! Aah! Shoulders!

Everything is sacred.

You said mikhay khodam barat peck biyam?! Usually people w/

You said mikhay khodam barat peck biyam?! Usually people w/ expertise in Bandari get in front and start the dance.  Loud noise volume?! You like low volume, so turn the volume down! 

So, if you can move the hair and can peck biyay, you can do bandari a lot better than the rest of us.  So let's do it!

Aah! Aah! Peck! Peck! Hair! Aah! Napkin! Aah! Shoulders! Shake! 

Everything is sacred.

WTH Anonymouse???

Who died and left me as expert in Bandari dance? I'm actually not a big fan of Bandari music...noise level is too high for my delicate ears lol

But truth be told I can do Aghassi's hair thing. No clue why but I can! It is really has nothing to do with the head area, if you can move the muscles of your face a certain way, it sort of moves the hair line back and forth thus moving the scalp with it :P So that is my HONAR for the day.

So Abdullah Abdullah means servant of the servant?!

We have a Persian saying that says; my servant had a servant and he had a servant too!  Meaning no one wants to do anything anymore and everyone wants to just pass the buck!

Did you see any hair and peck movements in Bahram's latest video? Now having seen all these videos, can you dance like Aghassi and move your shoulders like that?!  Not the hair and peck, we can't even do that ourselves but we all more or less know how to move our shoulders like that.  It is called Bandari dance and it is very popular.  Apparently HollyUSA is an expert in Bandari dances! LOL!

Everything is sacred.

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Hi! Mouse,

     I found out the meaning of Abdullah, it means "Servant of Allah/God", yeah! Finally a non-Farsi speaker is right, :O)) Sorry for bragging, only once, I promise!
//babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Abdullah.html

Thank you for mobilizing people to find the "aay naneh" video. 

Hi Bahram,

Thank you for the aay naneh video! The pictures & music are so cute! Wow, you copyrighted the video! Your Hotel California video cracked me up 'cause the guy was sooo emotional. I got scared by his intensity!

thank you all!

yolanda 

another entertaining blog MPD!

Nice translating job too. I'm planning to watch all the old clips on your thread tonight.

Anahid: Yeah I remember all the boys around me trying to master the Aghassi hand claps :o)

آغاسی در شو ایتالیا ایتالیا

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ameneh is just a girls' name and I think was/is NOT copyrighted just to belong to the muhammad family......

dame MPD kooreye ajoor pazi  ba gozashtane my beloved hamshahri clip on his anniversary roohesh shad and  thanx for reminding us.          Maziar

Bahram jaan I can't see it but I can vouch 4 u anytime! Blindly!

Here you go Yolanda!

Bahram jaan, I saw all your clips on Afghasi but did not find any longer version of his peck and hair routines as discussed earlier.  If you find a longer version, would you please post it? 

Everything is sacred.

آی ننه آی ننه زنم منو می زنه

Anonymouse

Here is the aay naneh song lol.

DK jaan here's a request for you, please!

Yolanda I don't know what Abdullah means, but the best person to ask would be Abdullah Abdullah, the Afghan candidate who lost! I just couldn't resist!

I can't look at youtube now but I'll ask our youtube i.com expert if he can find an aay naneh clip and post it here.

DK jaan this kisses your hand! While you're at it, would you also see if you can find a more longer version of Afghasi's hair, peck, napkin and clapping routines?  The one's we posted here were very short.  I think back in the days in the new year programs he'd display those talents more often.  Maybe a Kaaf Show episode?

Aah! Aah! Aah! Biya baba! Left Peck! Right Peck! Aah! Aah!

Everything is sacred.

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Hi! Mouse,

   Thank you for your post. Thank you for telling us what "Nematollah" means in English, I knew that "-ollah" or "-allah" always has something to do with "God" like in Jundallah, Hezbollah, Yundollah, Nasrallah, or maybe Abdullah also?

   Wow! the singer got a very pretty and religious first name. Thank you so much for the info. I think for Farsi speaking people, they probably know already, but for non-Farsi speakers like me, we are not quite sure...I only knew the meaning of the suffix "-ollah", not the entire word.

Thank you so much! It is fun to know the meaning of someone's name 'cause you will know the expectations of this person's parents.

Hi Mouse,

     Could you please sing the "AAy Naneh" for us, make a video, and load it here. I am extremely interested in the alternative version of the guy's song! I promise you, I will watch it! :o))

Thanks,

2 more thing about Aghasi! His first name & lampooning this song

Aghasi's first name Nematollah means bounty from god. Nemat = bounty and ollah = from Allah/God.  Now who was looking for a boy's name recently?! Nemat or Nematollah sounds pretty good to me!

Later someone, don't remember who, made a funny version of this song and called it AAy Naneh!  Meaning "ay aya ya mother"! AAy Naneh or Oh mother has almost the same pronounciation as Ameneh.

The song would say:

oh mother my wife beats me up!

she gives an ulcer

oh mother

oh mother

she has made my life a living hell

oh mother

oh mother

Sort of like Michael Jackson's "Beat it" and the lampooning song "Eat it"! Remember that one?! Michael approved the song too!

Everything is sacred.

Anahid you are right he brought his own unique style of clapping

I think he basically brought southern bandari music to the pop culture. I remember when Ameneh came out it was such a mega hit.  They made so many "mixes" and versions of it and the first part which was 'slow' became even more popular once the song itself was a hit.

Some current singers, like Andy, Moin, Siavash and others still sing his songs with their own spin. He was and still is Z best! 

Everything is sacred.

MPD, you did good today

I'm very proud of you.  Good Night my buddy.

بابا برید بخوابید

بخدا مفتون شدم.  فردا هم یکی دیگه از روزهای خداست
من رفتم بخوام.  شب خوش

Yeah MPD

Some of us ARE awake. I won't be shedding any blood on any of your blogs cuz I know you don't like it. I really really wanted to earlier though :/

MPD, some of us are still awake

Thanks for your blog.  By the way, I did not see anyone mentioning Aghasi's style of clapping which later became more popular.  Being from South of Iran, I liked Aghasi.  I was very young when "Ameneh" came out but still remember there was controversy about it because of the name. 

مثل اینکه خدا را شکر همه رفتند بخوابند

تا ببینیم فردا چی می شه

انشاالله بدونِ کشتار پیش بره

Souri jan

Thanks for the clip. She was SUCH a sweetheart. Roohesh shaad.

Thank you Mr Yassari & Holly jan, have you seen this one?

Anonymouse,

I thought by peck, you meant like a chicken moving head back and forth, he did that to, and side to side.  I didn't know pecks meant man teats :O) 

Here's Soussan and Farrokhzad

سلام خدمت آقای چندگونه و دوستان عزیز

نعمت الله آغاسی یکی از محبوب ترین هنرمندان ایرانی بود.  برخلاف خیلی از هنرمندان ایرانی دیگر، نعمت الله آغاسی در فقر و تنهایی نمرد.  در سالهای آخر عمرش، و مخصوصا در زمانی که بیماری اش پیشرفته شده بود، مجالس و مراسم متعددی برای قدردانی از وی برگزار شد.  آغاسی هنرمند خوشحالی بود و در ناراحتی از دنیا نرفت.  فقدان او برای یکایک ایرانیان یک غم عظیم بوده ، اما موسیقی آغاسی همواره در قلب همهء ایرانیان زنده است.  یادش جاودانه باد.  (ضمنا هنرمندان زنده و مخصوصا جواد یساری اصلی را تا زنده هستند در یابید.)

این هم یک ویدو از سالهای اخیرتر (آغاسی همان است که جلیقه پوشیده، نه آنی که کت آبی پوشیده!)