Perperouna

Domna’s first work for children came as a fulfilment of her constant aspiration to bring traditional folk songs closer to children –especially those living in the cities. Some of these sixteen traditional songs, with their ‘easy’ melodies, uplifting rhythms and amusing lyrics, were anyway sung by children –like 'Perperouna', 'Chelidonisma', and the 'Carols'. This LP is a milestone as for its content and for its aim.

Production: Zodiac
Year of release: 1980
Type: LP

Texts

Collaborators

Production team

Domna Samiou (Research, Collection, Musical supervision)

Sound team

Kostas Prikopoulos (Sound engineer)

Singers

Domna Samiou (I See Some Ships Approaching Port, One Day a Tom Cat, Amidst Three Seas, )Yiorgos Bagiokis (I Am a Fisherman’s Son, An Old Woman, an Old Gran, Arta’s Βridge, )Panagiotis Baganis (Behold the Beautiful Orchard, The Crab’s to Wed, )

Choir

Mixed choir (Gone with My Scarf, )Children’s Choir of the mixed High School ‘Estia Neas Smyrnis’ (Spring Carols, May, Perperouna, They Sat on the Swing, New Year Carol (Asia Minor), I Want to Climb up to the Top, The Crab’s to Wed, Arta’s Βridge, )

Musicians

Clarinet

Charalambos Giannopoulos (May, An Old Woman, an Old Gran, The Crab’s to Wed, )

Flute

Charalambos Giannopoulos (One Day a Tom Cat, I Want to Climb up to the Top, )

Tsambouna

Antonis Spanos (Down on the Sandy Beach, )

Violin

Stefanos Vartanis (Gone with My Scarf, I Am a Fisherman’s Son, Amidst Three Seas, May, New Year Carol (Asia Minor), An Old Woman, an Old Gran, The Crab’s to Wed, I See Some Ships Approaching Port, Arta’s Βridge, )

Lute

Mathios Ventouris (Gone with My Scarf, Amidst Three Seas, May, New Year Carol (Asia Minor), An Old Woman, an Old Gran, I Want to Climb up to the Top, The Crab’s to Wed, I See Some Ships Approaching Port, )

Daouli (davul)

Mathios Balabanis (Arta’s Βridge, )

Goblet drum

Mathios Balabanis (Amidst Three Seas, May, Down on the Sandy Beach, The Crab’s to Wed, )

Tongs

Domna Samiou (One Day a Tom Cat, )

Informant (source of the song)

Mr. Papantoniou (I Am a Fisherman’s Son, )Yannis Papayannis (They Sat on the Swing, )Dimitris Vlaskos (One Day a Tom Cat, )Yiorgis Tzoumas (New Year Carol (Asia Minor), )Yannis Parisis (I See Some Ships Approaching Port, )

See also

  • SongCentral GreeceFable Song (Ballad)

I Am a Fisherman’s Son

  • Εγώ ’μαι ’νους ψαρά παιδί ⬥ Studio recording, 1980. Domna Samiou taped the song in Kymi, Euboea, sung by Μr. Papantoniou, in 1976.
  • SongDodecaneseKastellorizoLove Song

Gone with My Scarf

  • Έφκε με το μαντίλι μου ⬥ Studio recording, 1980.
  • SongIonian islandsLefkadaRitual Song, Saturday of Lazarus CarolCarol

Lazarus Passed by Here

  • Εδώ διαβαίνει ο Λάζαρος ⬥ Studio recording, 1974.
  • SongPeloponneseCarnival Song, Children's Song, Lampoon

The Crab’s to Wed

  • Παντρεύουνε τον κάβουρα ⬥ Live recording from the concert Carnival Songs with Domna Samiou held at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, on March 4, 2003. Domna Samiou taped the song, sung by Kostas Marinis, 1960.
  • SongPanhellenicCarnival Song

An Old Woman, an Old Gran

  • Μια γριά μπαμπόγρια ⬥ Live recording from the concert Carnival Songs with Domna Samiou held at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, on March 4, 2003.