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My You Tube search-fu is weak today.

I am trying to find the name of a female mongolian singer who started back in the early50s and was in one of those fantasy movies with a harem scene that was so popular in the late 40s into the early 60s. The scene on you tube i am looking for is from that movie and she is walking through the harem and singing.

From what I remember from some of the other YT vids I broused she is still alive and singing.

help?

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[QUOTE=aruvqan]
My You Tube search-fu is weak today.

I am trying to find the name of a female mongolian singer who started back in the early50s and was in one of those fantasy movies with a harem scene that was so popular in the late 40s into the early 60s. The scene on you tube i am looking for is from that movie and she is walking through the harem and singing.

From what I remember from some of the other YT vids I broused she is still alive and singing.

help?
[/QUOTE]

She’s not Mongolian but you don’t happen to be thinking of Yma Sumac, do you?

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[QUOTE=FriarTed]
She’s not Mongolian but you don’t happen to be thinking of Yma Sumac, do you?
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Yeah, that was my first thought.

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Yma Sumac appeared in 1957’s Omar Khayyam. Could that be what you saw?

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Here’s a YouTube clip of Sumac’s scene. Look familiar?