[78-L] Question about "O Gero Amerikanos"

[Maria Yorgakopoulou]

  I am new to this list and will soon have a lot of questions, but as
regards, O Geros Amerikanos, my husband and I were unfamiliar with it. Today
I googled the song in Greek, actually took out O (The), got
this website
http://www.xorio.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=814:2010-03-02-10-12-34&catid=49:2010-03-02-09-29-39&Itemid=79,
which had the following info:

First, they categorized it under wedding songs, because it is about a
wedding or marriage, which though there are other words in Greek, here the
term is interchangable. It was found in the collection Katsalidas-
Kaτσαλιδας,  in Lyti -Λυτης-also Φωτιος οr Φωτιου-Fotios, or Fotiou. They
also have the lyrics, the posting was March 2010.

 Maria Yorgakopoulou

First they categorized it under we

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: goldenbough at arcor.de
> > Eric, Here is what Dick Spottswood published in the booklet to
> > Folk Music in America - Vol. 6  Songs of Migration & Immigration
> >> D. Perdicopoulos - O Gero Amerikanos
> >> With violin, bouzouki and guitar, Athens, Greece, mid-1930s.
> >> (3:11)  Orthophonic S-737
> >> RCA Records' files contain no information concerning the Orthophonic
> >> label, whose releases were exclusively of Greek and Turkish music.
> [snip]
>
> > I do not know whether Dick reads the 78-L forum, but he never posted
> > there, afaik.   Benno
>
> Spottswood is on the ARSC-List and reads and replies regularly.  I am
> surprised to see him report that there is no info in the RCA files about
> this label.  I had thought there were Blue Release Cards for these like
> there are for Crown.  It could be that if there are cards there is no
> info of the source of the recordings.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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