Degirmenci / O Mylonas Greek Turkish Shared Songs

The old Turkish song, Degirmenci, here performed in an American recording by the Armenian Marko Melkon and the Sephardic Jew Victoria Hazan, both immigrants from the Izmir region. The song was known among Asia Minor Greeks,its popularity attested by the fact that three Greek versions, all attributed to the Izmir born composer, Stavros Pantelides, appeared in the mid 1930s. The version with Roza and Nouros was recorded in Greece for the Orthophonic label in the USA, and not originally released in Greece. Today the song is relatively unkown among Greeks.