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

[Eric Byron]

Thank you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maria Yorgakopoulou" <mariady2007 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Question about "O Gero Amerikanos"


>  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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