Panos Petsas composed more than 100 songs and played a major role in music made during the middle years of the last century. He appeared on hundreds of recordings, as musician and as composer.
Petsas was born Plaka, Athens in 1915. He emerged in the post-war years and in the 1950s, played guitar with Vasili Tsitsanis’s band and in the studios of Columbia records. In the 1960s, he became a member of composer Mikis Theodorakis’s orchestra.
The website discogs.org credits him with 276 appearances on record, almost equally split between credits for composition and for playing. Every major artist sang his compositions.
Ioanna Georgakopoulou and Stellakis Perpiniadis recorded <em>Down in the Pasalimani</em>, one of Petsas’s early works, in 1947. The recording is unusual for its time: as well as listing the singers on the label, it credits bouzouki player Dimitris Stergiou.
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