3touna al-tofouleh…
جينا نعيدكم… بالعيد منسألكم
ليش ما في عنا… لا عياد ولا زينة
يا عالم
أرضي محروقة
أرضي حرية مسروقةسمانا عمتحلم… تسأل الأيام
وين الشمس الحلوة… ورفوف الحمام
يا عالم
أرضي محروقة
أرضي حرية مسروقةأرضي زغيرة… متلي زغيرة
ردولا السلام… اعطونا الطفولةاعطونا الطفولة
اعطونا الطفولة
اعطونا الطفولة
اعطونا… اعطونا… اعطونا السلام
ريمي بندلي – اعطونا الطفولة
A 4 year old child, chanted this song in 1984, in war-torn leabnon.
Rimi Bandali, the Miracle.
Most Syrians and Lebanese grew up on her voice singing “3assel weshak ya 2amar”…
I know I did.
All through this morning I was obsessing with her, I found 5 of her songs on the net.
3touna al-tofouleh
Teer w 3alli ya 7amam
Imany A7la
La Tibky
And my personal all time favorite..
Baba
U remember “Baba”, her dialogue song with her father Rene Bandali. I learned the “Fast Forward” and “Rewind” buttons on our recorder for that song.
Rimi Bandali, she’s the pure essence of childhood in each one of us, her voice awakes every single feeling from that time when u’d still be peeing in ur bed.
Awakes the “Tofuleh al-Musharradeh” in each one of us..
We’re all still children, u can’t really grow up in these countries… u just grow older.. but never grow up inside. I donno if that’s a good thing.
People call that growing up too quickly, but, really, it’s more like, NEVER growing up. Deep inside, not letting go of all these strings, living ur life trying to achieve ur childhood. cuz u never really had one.
40 years worth of generations in Syria and Lebanon will live their lives to achieve their childhood…
All of us…
Lebanon a country, a childhood of War.
Syria a country, a childhood of Silence.
February 27th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Yazan, lak is2allaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah 3ala Rimi Bandali, I love Baba song, I used to freak all the family by my voice singing it
February 27th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
that is such a coincidence :) a couple of days ago, i bumped into “baba”‘s song at a friend’s blog, and he kindly sent it to me. i really love this song, although the only thing i remember of it is Remy telling her father: “salle7leh el skarbineh” :p
February 27th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
the first “concert” i went to was hers!! i think i was 6 :)
makes you wish you never grew up..
February 28th, 2006 at 12:28 am
I wonder what happened to her?????
February 28th, 2006 at 2:43 am
Zena,
check this..
http://www.syriamirror.net/modules/news/print.php?storyid=3878
So, everbody did actually grow up on her voice… brilliant..
March 26th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
oh man u really made me cry…..just with no more words…..
April 25th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Thank You so much for posting Remi’s songs! EEEEh 3ala iyyam zaman!
May 5th, 2006 at 11:57 am
I really love Remi Bandali. We grew up to her music. If anyone knows were to download her songs plz tell me.
May 5th, 2006 at 11:58 am
@anonymos
I provided 5 links to her songs in this post :)
May 22nd, 2006 at 11:17 am
please if anyone can find more songs for her, send me the site or the songs on this email: lydia_refaat@hotmail.com,. thxs alot.
November 25th, 2006 at 10:43 am
hi…i have all remi’s songs from her first till her last cassette!!!!im 30 years old now and still know allll her songs…i was fond of her..singing with my friends and imitating her….i watched like 7 of her shows and i watched her film…….amani taht kaws kuzah….i have a collection of her pictures and interviews…i know that she and her family settled in canada….BUT..i wonder why cant i find a single picture of her on the net??!!!!!or any article talking about her???
December 4th, 2006 at 1:16 am
I tried following the links you posted but they don’t seem to work. Did you by any chance happen to have backup copies in mp3 that you wouldn’t mind sharing :)?
January 25th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
I would love the sonds as well…links don’t seem to work, can anyone help… csca0203@gmail.com…thanks
February 7th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
hello everyone … amazing history and amazing old time songs reminding us of the “beautful” childhood ..
there is a song that says “ya rayt feeyee 3al sama itla3 .. w hayk min doon ma 7ada ye2sha3 .. esro2 el shams wel matar…… khabbiyon be3ebbi 7ad albi w zetton 3a 7eden emmi” … ok the thing is, if anyone has it PLZ PLZ PLZ either send it to me on Sultantarabeine@gmail.com … or send me the link to download it.
Thank you all for the great memories u brought back to my head
April 27th, 2007 at 3:08 am
guys rimi is on facebook….i mean the real rimi the person
May 29th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
tnx for the wonderfull post.
A while ago i found the files online. It was about time cuz the shareet i have is way past its date!
Really brings back childhood memories.. i remember i used to drive my parents crazy with these songs.
June 1st, 2007 at 4:28 am
omggg remi bandali is a legend!
anoymous you said she was on facebook, i typed in remi bandali and nothing came up!!:( if anyone has her songs can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEE email me
el_masri@hotmail.com
August 21st, 2007 at 1:58 am
we listened to her tape constantly and one day the tape snapped :( we were young and didnt realize to make copies of her tapes. if anyone has her songs can you please send them to me. it would be greatly appreciated
seth520@gmail.com
thanks!
February 10th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Check out these songs:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zYQ6HtWZKU8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v3IL19EA_xE
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ySilsOY0nuo