Cilla Black - Abyssinian Secret (60's Psychedelia !!)

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In 1968 Cilla Black unexpectedly recorded an amazing piece of pop psychedelia, quite unlike any of her other material. It was called "Abyssinian Secret" and it's long been a guilty pleasure of mine. When I decided to try doing a video for the track I searched around the internet for some appropriate footage - Arab bazaars, snake charmers, belly dancers etc. Quite by chance I stumbled across this clip from, I think, a South American TV show. I was astounded to find that the footage didn't need ANY editing whatsoever. The choreography synched perfectly to the track. God! - who would ever have thought you could belly dance to a Cilla Black song!!! All credit to the production skills of George Martin who obviously got the musical arrangement spot on. Camp? Yes, Cheesey? Yes, but a real classic piece of acid trip, opium den, 60's pop psychedelia in it's own right. It was hidden away as an album track and, I think, is still available on a compilation CD called "The Abbey Road Decade" Forget "You're My World" and "Anyone Who Had A Heart" - this was Cilla when the Sixties were REALLY swinging... Enjoy :)

Channel: Music
Uploaded: August 26, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Author: gav002

Length: 0:02:24
Rating: 4.49
Views: 23,825

Tags: cilla black abyssinian secret psychedelic belly dance arabesque liverpool merseybeat 60s pop LSD

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pod112k890 (Tuesday 5th of August 2008 12:25:58 PM)
Show me how you want it to be FASTLOVERFUN . COM
expoonation (Sunday 3rd of August 2008 05:17:11 PM)
Haha, very nicely done! George Martin.. amazing guy, helped to define course of music in the 60's. With his work/help(just letting them do whatever they wanted) with the Beatles and countless others. :)
PAULLONDEN (Tuesday 17th of June 2008 05:10:20 AM)
Nice cheography girls./
Ohm51 (Tuesday 3rd of June 2008 07:52:20 PM)
Man thats totally cool ... although I am a tad dissappointed that these dancers weren't actually as campy and trip hop cool as you made them look.
IDLERACER (Thursday 29th of May 2008 08:40:38 PM)
I wouldn't call this "psychedelia." I believe a more accurate adjective would be "exotica."
Xanubi (Wednesday 28th of May 2008 10:35:14 AM)
you can belly dance to all sorts of music, not just Arabic
GoddsRosemary (Tuesday 8th of April 2008 01:48:14 PM)
Love it !! Plays it again!!
1337905 (Wednesday 26th of March 2008 01:48:22 PM)
uhh south americans have nothing to do with arabs aside from being of spanish descent which have descent from north africans which are pretty close to the semitics.
Widmerpool99 (Saturday 22nd of March 2008 11:14:59 PM)
It could be worse. Could be Cilla herself wiggling her pelvis in an enticing manner.
yaaqshid (Friday 21st of March 2008 11:23:23 AM)
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk even they accent is sexy wicked