Eddie Kochak sells cd's out of his personal website. He is still at his old address on Pierrepont St. in Brooklyn. I think there is a link to his site off of bellydanceny.com under "music," etc. He has an order form you can print.

Aziza

www.eddiekochak.com/index.htm

Eddie Kocak created a genre known as "Ameribaba" ~ a collection of Arabic/Armenian/Turkish/Greek tunes with a unique "over here" rather than "over there" feel. He played a major role in the NYC music and dance scene. Often he would name songs after his favorite dancers. Many of those NYC dancers such as Ibrihim Farrah, Phaedra, Jemela Omar and Saroya Melik to name a few, graced the covers of his albums.

Check out the album covers at www.radiobastet.com/covgal/covgal15.html

Some more info about Eddie at
www.mozuna.com/eddie.htm

My mother taught to a lot of Eddie Kochak albums (among others for she was in business with Baba Ajdin Aslan of "Balkan Records.") and "drummed" him up a lot of sales (no pun intended!). There's no telling how many sales he got out of her students the year we went back to her hometown of Charleston, WV and we taught 500 students at their YWCA in their large gymnasium. We stayed a year and made a killing. The students were lovely women and a joy to teach on top of that. Back then most students really lovely women, not many difficult types. We were there the year of Watergate, 1973. We went back to NYC in 1974 when I was six. As soon as we went back, my Mom said, "Get ready! We're going to see Eddie Kochak!" I got excited and thought she meant "Kojak" actore Telly Savales (I adored that Greek!) We arrived at Eddie's office and I was floored to see an Arab dude with plenty of hair. I said, "I thought you were "Kojak" and I was going to get a lollipop. He gave me a Joyva sesame candy to appease me. I'll never forget that day!