The Rebetiko Song in America Vol 2 1945 - 1960
Various artists
>F M Records
The Greek Archives 628
| G Xenopoulos | Your eyes, your cheeks> |
| Virginia Mangidou | Gypsy girl, tell me my fortune |
| Angeliki Karayanni, Marika Georgia, A Zervas | Katsivella |
| Markos Melkon | Memetis |
| Charilaos Piperakis | Doudou |
| M Patrinos | Three zeibekika |
| T Eleftheriades | Mourmouraki |
| Song from Syros | |
| Virginia Mangidou | The Governess and the Boatman |
| Victoria Khazan | Come to me, Butcher Boy |
| Eleni Bartseri, George Strateos and his orchestra | Yaleli |
| Virginia Mangidou | Alexandria Fellaha |
| Roza Eskenazy | Girls from Asia |
| Andreas Pongis Orchestra | Boom! |
| Roza Eskenazy | What's the World Coming To? |
| Angeliki Karayanni | What do you care where I come from? |
| Charilaos Piperakis | I got involved again |
| Virginia Mangidou | What a miserable life |
| Roza Eskenazy | In Constantinople at the Mevla Khan (Dervishes) |
| George Garbis | Surf Hijazkar Taksim |
| Roza Eskenazy | When you are in pain and he doesn't want you |
| Roza Eskenazy | Tsakitzis |
Another in the Greek Archive series of CDs, number 628. While the Greeks were recording the Pireotiki Kompania, with their bouzoukis, the stage instruments of Asia Minor were still popular in America for another twenty years after their decline in Greece. This Cd is made up of recordings with violins, sandouri, kanonaki and outi with female singers. Some of it was recorded in America, the rest in Constantinople. Most of the tracks are less well known, and were made by small companies who did not keep complete records of their output.
This is a worthwhile CD because of the instrumentation, and because it contains tracks by Rosa Eskenazy that do not appear on other compilations.