Author: Mark Hamilton
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Haralambos Vassiliades, In front of Saint Spyridon
Haralambos Vassiliades wrote lyrics for both light music and rebetiko/laiko, beginning in the 1940s.…
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Kosmas Kosmadopoulos, I bet all my money (Hippodrome)
Kosmas Kosmadopoulos wrote almost a dozen songs that were recorded by leading rebetiko performers…
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Pinch when I imbibe, lyrics by Emilios Savvidis
A pinch, in rebetiko slang, is a pinch of a powdered, inhaled drug. This…
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Theodoros Kavourakis, The victim
Theodoros Kavourakis’s smooth tenor was regularly featured on Greek rebetiko recordings made in the…
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Takis Lavidas A cloudy dawn, with Sotiria Bellou
Takis Lavidas, sanoturi player, composer and lyricist, is another musician who don’t have much…
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Each with their own pain, written by Theodore Derveniotis
The deeper I dig into rebetiko, the wider the music becomes. It isn’t a…
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Angeliki Karayianni, My little Arabian playful one
There are any number of performers who fallen through the cracks of rebetiko history,…
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Morocco and women: rebetiko tales
An odd thing happened to the Greek music that had grown from rebetiko in…
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Eleni Lambiri, The freshwater mangas
Eleni Lambris recorded under four different names, once appearing on record with one name…
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Eftychia Papagiannopoulou, Life has two doors (Lyrics)
Life has two doors I opened one and entered walked one morning and by…
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