Songs of Smyrna /Izmir Greek Turkish Songs

One of the most beloved and well known songs of the Smyrna Greeks was "Ti Se Meli Esenane" ("What's it to you?"). Of the versions presented here the first three were recorded in Greece and the last two in the USA. they all differ slightly in text and rhythmic subdivisions. The later American version by Angeliki Karayianni inlcudes the line "what's it matter to you what I smoke; "Lucky Strike" or "Camel" or "Melahrino" an obvious reference to the singers American environment. The surprising jazz bepop version (thanks to Bob G for the discovery) was recorded twice by the great Slim Gaillard who grew up in Detroit, MI, home to a large and active Greek American community. Some say he was the son of a Greek father and an aFro Cuban mother. Other earlier versions recorded in the US in the 1920s but not included here are those by Marika Papagika and Kyria Amalia.

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[gio8paok]

greeks and turkish have the same blood , whatever had been done in the past the goverments were responsible , for many years greeks and turkish lived in peace both in izmir and thessaloniki .

[marilou7itgr]

Greece loves Turkey!i just visited Istanbul and i felt like home!thank you for this!i realised how same we are with turks and how many thinks in common we have!we feel the same way!

[mardinieng]

@orcunbjkcarsi Smyran for EVER

[orcunbjkcarsi]

İZMİR SİNCE 1922...!!!

[wellwellwellall]

@Erdemfm trade will cause war. they dont give a shit about anything other than the elites pockets. common people will suffer

[wellwellwellall]

@Erdemfm what drugs are you on? welcome to the United Nations where no one will own any form of land.

[wellwellwellall]

@gio8paok but you forget. they were separated by the authorities. wish we can all live in peace

[gsxrkostask4]

@gio8paok 

[monosmusmono1186]

türkçesi söylenmemiş mi arkadaş...

[Mubarak635]

You greeks and turks who hate each other because of the past are just plain sick. Learn to grow up and stop hating. I'm not even a greek or a turk. This is the cause of wars in the first place: people won't forgive and forget about the past. Turks and greeks have the same culture; they're like brothers. So start acting like it.

-Greetings from an Iranian. Long live Turkey and Greece <3

[Mattichimaru]

@meliss468 I agree... I dont think Greeks or Turks realize but the soldiers and majority of the Ottoman empire was made up of Christians, mostly Greeks. Our bloodlines have mixed and no matter how much you hate it, nothing will change that fact.

My best friend is Greek and I am a Turk.

Fuck the hate.

Sagapo Hellas, Sagapo Turkia

Seni Seviyorum Turkiye, Seni Seviyorum Yunanistan.

[meliss468]

@GiratinaOriginAwakes So? Why hate people you haven't met? In an empire, invasion is everything is it not? An empire who has long gone and whose influences has also long gone.