33 Oriental Rock 'n' Roll Treasures! If you were astride a mighty camel while fearlessly navigating the wind-swept sands of the Sahara, good old-fashioned rock 'n' roll would be just about the last commodity you would expect to encounter. Yet such fantastic scenarios inspired a slew of songs set to exotically rocking rhythms, their unusual narratives constructed around sheiks, harems, oases, King Tut and Ali Baba, and far-off locales like Bagdad and Istanbul. Those happen to be the very subjects dominating Destination Desert – 33 Oriental Rock 'n' Roll Treasures. Some very unexpected names turn up on this anthology that you’d never expect to see searing their feet in such scorching, sun-strewn climes: including Jerry Reed, The Champs, The Ramrocks, The Silver-Tones, The Majestics, Big Maybelle, Jo Ann Campbell, Ferlin Husky, Bobby Freeman, The Teentones, Bill Haley & The Comets, Johnny and the Hurricanes and many others...
