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Balos From Smyrna

Σμυρναίικος μπάλος
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Original Lyrics
Σμυρναίικος μπάλος
Καλέ, δε με λυπάσαι, δε μ’ ασπλαχνίζεσαι
που χάνομαι για σένα και συ στολίζεσαι.
Έλα να σε φιλήσω και γρήγορα να πας
να μη μας δουν γειτόνοι και πουν πως μ’ αγαπάς.
Information
- Region: Asia Minor
- Area: Smyrna
- Type: Couplets
- Rhythm: 2 beats
- Dance style: Ballos
- Duration: 03:42
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou
- Kanun: Nikos Stefanidis
- Musical supervision: Domna Samiou
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Recording information
Studio recording, in 1961. Released in 45 rpm disc (Philips 8410, 1961) supervised by Domna Samiou (Recordings in 45 RPM). Later, in 2008, Yiorgos Tsambras included the track in the CD collection Mousiko Odiporiko 1959-1969 (Universal Music, 2008).
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Concert
Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou
08 & 09/03/2005
The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
