BBC Documentary on Rebetika Part 10

In order to ship my distant friend George Katsibokis a copy on DVD of this BBC documentary about Rebetika, I captured the VHS to my harddrive. To keep the sync OK, I cut it into 10 chapters, perfectly suited to uptube as well. Here's the last chunk, enjoy!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• BBC
• Rebetika
• anthony
• quinn
• documentary

[Dan1988A]

BTW, that song played when the closing titles are played - what's its name? The English translation?

[jureilers]

the title is "I Foni To Argile" (the sound of the waterpipe) the first part of the translation:

Five years locked up inside Jedi Kule, x 2

Because of all my troubles I picked up the

 arghile. x 2

Blow, suck, pull it,

Fill it and light it up,

Watch out for the cops,

Those prison guards!

[jureilers]

the second part:

- Take yours too, Vangelis!

- To our health!

And another five years you've forgotten, good, x 2

For comfort the manges gave me the arghile. x 2

Blow, suck, pull it,

Fill it and light it up,

Watch out for the cops,

Those prison guards!

[jureilers]

the end:

Now that I've got out from inside Jedi Kule, x 2

Fill my arghile so I can smoke, my dear. x 2

Blow, suck, pull it,

Fill it and light it up,

Watch out for the cops,

Those prison guards!

[rangvi]

wonderful documentary !! congratulations !! I've watched this for a 100 times. Thank you very very much. Greetings from France !

[alexandras4]

a re elladara

etsi re olo ton kosmo diko mas tha ton kanoume

thats Greece and its songs

[alainnblog]

A documentary about rebetika without mentioning Misirlou? 0_o

[kom9os]

hey that was my cafe, love the doco, anthony quinn was a late thought for narrator, but perfect for the theme. anyone that remembers 'tsakpina' will remember all the good times we had. unfortunately on the night they filmed thimios stathoulopoulos performing at tsakpina my girlfriend andrea demetriou came back from sydney and told me she was having an affair with the painter george mihelakos. i got very drunk and don't remember much else.

[sphstsphst]

'Yedi kule' means 'seven towers' in Turkish..Greetings from Turkey...

[ekwinix]

hi there. thankyou for uploading this. excellent documentary.

[disgraceful1]

brilliant - thank you so much for uploading. do you know what year this was made, please?

[telosfd]

Πολύ ωραία φωνή η κυρια που τραγούδησε!!!! Εxcelent voice.

[Janoostrom]

I watched this beautifull doc in the middle of my emigration van Holland to Greece and it helped me to see that my emigration was a right choice. I love the rembetiko !!! Thanks for sharing this doc.

[hampshireoak]

Thanks for uploading this Cultural Doco

[maccusfoto]

BBC, release this on DVD and i'll buy it instantly.