ARABIC FOLKSONGS TOUFIC BARHAM OUD Amos Kairouz Denny Thomas ST JUDE HOSPITAL SF
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A series of great early Opera performances: From 1902 G&Ts to 40s wartime German records:
TWO Palestine Musicians in this great fundraiser record for the St Jude Hospital San Francisco
TOUFIC BARHAM OUD and Actor and comedian Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakoob Kairouz) singing w drums and strings
Arabic Folksongs 1&2
10" 78 rpm record
Condition:
VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS/ E- two 1cm scratches on 1, plays very quiet light crackle
A Great COPY
For the Children at St. Jude - Toufic Barham and Danny Thomas
Toufic T. Barham
(musician, Oud)Toufic Barham with Danny Thomas, photo courtesy of Ancestry.com
Toufic T. Barham was born to Abraham Barham and Mariam Hajal Barham 10 August 1908 in Jerusalem, Palestine. He immigrated to the United States through Ellis Island with his brothers Ezzat, Daoud, Chekri, and his sister-in-law, Julie Barham in 1920 on board the Rochembeau via Le Havre, France. The family first resided in New York’s Little Syria, and Toufic met and married his future wife, Alice, around May 1932. He and Alice had Toufic “Thomas”Jr. , Barbara, Amil, and Yvonne over the next eight years. After Barbara was born in 1935, the family relocated to Detroit, Michigan where Toufic’s found work as a cleaner and restaurant owner before his career skyrocketed.
Toufic Barham and group played a host of Mahrajan hosted by the Lebanon Syrian American Club. Photo courtesy of the Arizona Republic newspaper, 26 April 1953.
In 1940, Barham owned the Sheik Café on Lafayette and Randolph; he also headed an orchestra group called the Egyptian Melodies. The group played mahrajans and fundraisers through Michigan and the Midwest. By December 1940, he shared concert billing with Louis Wardini, John Fayad, and Wadeeh Bagdady. He also played with Amer and Sana Kadaj. Fortunes turned south in 1944, when Barham received notice that he was being charged with larceny in a food rations theft ring. Detroit Police arrest Barham and a distraught Alice had to fend for herself and raise the four children. Things got worse before they got better.
Toufic Barham (in white jacket with oud) with Amer and Sana Kadaj (seated center). Photo courtesy of Ancestry.com
Alice was charged as an accomplice in an elaborate food rations and counterfeit stamps scandal. Officers arrested and charged some six others with similar charges. Toufic and Alice’s luck changed in the 1950s when the family moved to Inglewood, California. Toufic began to work and appear regularly with Lebanese American actor, singer, and performer, Danny Thomas.
Actor and comedian Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakoob Kairouz) was a largely unknown, but budding radio entertainer when in 1937, he prayed to Saint Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes, for professional guidance and direction. Thomas promised to build a shrine to Saint Jude if he helped Thomas find his place in life. Twenty years later, with a skyrocketing, successful career, and “Make Room for Daddy” and “The Danny Thomas Show” on the ABC television network, Thomas incorporated ALSAC in 1957, its first project was to raise money for the proposed Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. The acronym ALSAC intentionally had two meanings. It encompassed the Lebanese and Syrian ancestry of much of the country’s Arab American population, to which Thomas belonged, but it also stood for Aiding Leukemia Stricken American Children. The hospital opened in 1962 as a racially integrated, free-of-charge-hospital for children who lived with childhood diseases including leukemia, despite being in the southern US. The star-shaped facility was designed by African American architect Paul R. Williams.
Toufic Brham accompanied Danny Thomas on the rare fundraiser recording to raise money for St. Jude Hospital, founded by Thomas. From the collection of Richard M. Breaux.
With the move to California, Toufic began to work regularly with Thomas, Naif Agby, and Kanzar Omar. He played the Our Lady of Lebanon twenty-fifth annual festival with Thomas and Agby in 1952. Toufic began to headline mahrajan and Lebanese and Mediterranean festivals across the southwest and south. As his music career flourished, his marriage suffered. After years of frustration with the highs and lows of Toufic being on the road, he and Alice divorced in 1974. Toufic lived twenty-two more years and continued to play his oud off and on for the remainder of his life.
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