Greek Turkish Shared Musics - Aman Doktor (Yiatros) - Mendilimin Yesili

One of the most oft recorded tunes in the early 20th centuries among Greeks was the Turkish song Mendilimin Yesili better known as Aman Doktor. It was especially favored by Greek immigrants to America who recorded it many times. Two Greek American recordings are included here, a very early one by Amalia Baka from Yanina, Epirus and a later one by Virginia Mangidou from Istanbul. Other American reocrdings not included are two by Marika Papagika, two by Giorgos Katsaros and one in Turkish by Tom Stathis (Stathiades) from Kirk Kilise (Saranda Ekklisies) now Kirklareli. The first Turkish recording on this upload is sung by the Armenian, Bogos Kirecciyan. It was recorded in Istanbul and released on the Balkan Record Label in NYC , circa 1953. The second Turkish recording is by Ali Ugurlu who recorded dozens of songs in Athens in the early 1960s. Included also are two "folk" versions - one, played on zurna and daouli is used to accompany the dance "Seryiani" from the region of Nigrita in Macedonia; and the other, also from Macedonia, is from the village of Krini. This is the only version in Greek I know of whose lyrics are different from the usual ones about needing a doctor to cure an uncurable love pain.

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[whiteNshine]

the ottoman empire was of greeks, turks, slavs, armenians, arameans and arabs.

europe destoyed that.

[mariaketikidou]

!!!! I was looking for an old version in Greek but i couldn't find!!! Thank you!!!

[CloneYourLover]

at the end, the man singing sounds like a Greek priest big time

[AlexBouzouki]

Great song!

It is originally composed by Yiorgos Katsaros in 1919,as he said in his interview.

It was first recorded by Yiorgos Katsaros in 1928 with the name "Αμάν Γιατρέ μου"="Aman benim Doktor"

[Soul5eek]

EXCELLENT COLLECTION !!!

[perag4]

@whiteNshine

Correction, not all the Slavs. And thank goodness it has stopped to exist. Let it never happen again.

[OYRGIOS]

1000 LIKE !!!!!!!!!

POLY KALO BINTEO POLY SPANIES EKTELESEIS

[loldongstr]

@whiteNshine

Fransız Devrimi çok güzeldi de bize ters dokundu. Olmasaydı dünya kralların kölesiydi hala. Şimdi de çok iyi değil ama daha iyi sayılır.

[loldongstr]

@fragosiko You mean the deaths during its dissolution? Tough luck, rise of nationalism in an Empire does not get greeted by flowers.

[MultiKhoroto]

Choukran

[zagrep19]

gayet güzel yorumları bir arada sundugunuz için teşekkürler....

[schwanzinmundkopf]

@whiteNshine

yes it was european imperialism! and they still dont pay for that they destroyed! only under ottoman rule there was peace in balkan and the middle east....