Egyptian director Hossam Elwan found an old 68-year-old paper containing the wages of the most famous music band that worked in Egypt and presented its melodies to great singers, headed by the Nightingale Abdel Halim Hafez.
It turned out that the paper dates back to the year 1956 and contains the names of the band’s members, which includes the most famous and greatest players on all musical instruments, such as the famous violinist Ahmed Fouad Hassan, and the violinists Anwar Mansi and Ahmed Al-Hefnawi. The largest salary in the band was for the violinist Ahmed Fouad Hassan, and he received 8 Egyptian pounds This was followed by Abu Taha Naji, then the violin and sax players were paid 6 pounds each.
According to the paper, the entire band’s wages amounted to only 177 Egyptian pounds, without the wages of the song’s composer, the late musician Kamal Al-Taweel and the author of the lyrics, Hussein Al-Sayed.
The song was part of the events of the movie “Dalila”, starring the artist Abdel Halim Hafez and the artist Shadia, and it was shown for the first time in the cinema on October 15 in the year 1956, written by the journalist writer Ali Amin, founder of Dar Akhbar Al-Youm Press and directed by the late director Muhammad Karim.
