ELAFRO (LIGHT STYLE)

Article by Giorgos Tsampras

Up until the appearance of discography in Greece, the main field in which “elafro” (“light style”) Greek music was being heard was the theater. The role of the revue (but also of the operetta, until its declining years) in the dissemination of songs would continue to be considerable for many more years, in parallel with discography, as the latter was taking its first slow steps. The prospect of a recording career, of course, intensified the efforts of composers and lyricists to create new songs. And as time went on, this perspective became their main ambition, even when a song of theirs was written for or was launched from the stage of a revue play.

... The musical face of the material is determined by the attachment not only to the spirit but also to the letter of Western European entertainment music in the context of the well-known attempt to approach European urban culture. Regarding the themes of the first songs registered in “elafro”’s discography, references from earlier Athenian music were still there (romanticism, wine, tavern, women), but this particular genre became more and more open to various sentimental cases that had the potential of also approaching younger audiences. There was generally an atmosphere of romantic escapism that one could say rather counteracted the intensity of Argentine tangos and other seasonal dance rhythms that were being introduced from time to time in the Athenian entertainment scene. “Eros” (“Love”) is fundamentally romantic but, as the revue and operetta stages was getting more and more open to the mores of the time, extremely... spicy (for the perceptions of the day) songs started to slowly make their appearance.

Gyrna (Reviens)

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1934, Athens, Anysios M.

Chavagia

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1934, Athens, Attik (Triantafyllou Kleon)

Ena bouketo menexedes

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1947, Athens, Vellas Giannis

Sto Gkazochori

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1949, Athens, Giakovlef Niki

Kathe agapi (Dyo cheilakia lene s' agapo)

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1933, Athens, Attik (Triantafyllou Kleon)

Zitate na sas po

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1931, Athens, Attik (Triantafyllou Kleon)

C 'est un refrain d' amour

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
Athens, Attik (Triantafyllou Kleon)

Ki omos...

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1929, Athens, Attik (Triantafyllou Kleon)

Na zei kaneis i na mi zei

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
1934, Athens, Attik (Triantafyllou Kleon)

Eida matia

Musical Scores / Παρτιτούρες
Athens, Attik (Triantafyllou Kleon)

Chrysoula

78 RPM Records
1927, New York, Unknown

I varka

78 RPM Records
1927, New York, Unknown

Thymasai sto sinema

78 RPM Records
04/1929, New York, Naltsas Themis

To koritsi

78 RPM Records
05/1931, Chicago (?), Unknown

To gelekaki

78 RPM Records
11/1934, Chicago, Ollandezos Spyros

Anamnisi glykia

78 RPM Records
18/12/1928, New York, Skizas Ierotheos, Dimitriadis Tetos

Ean eicha ekato

78 RPM Records
5/11/1929, Chicago, [Katsaros (Theologitis) Giorgos, Zattas Dimosthenis]

Paizo poka, paizo pinokli

78 RPM Records
5/11/1929, Chicago, [Zattas Dimosthenis]

I gynaika pou skotonei

78 RPM Records
30/4/1928, New York, Naltsas Themis

Konstantinoupoli

78 RPM Records
29/6/1928, New York, Carlton Harry

To proto erotiko fili

78 RPM Records
16/8/1928, New York, Papadimitriou I.

Perasan chronia

78 RPM Records
16/8/1928, New York, [Panagiotopoulos Alexandros]

Oritzinal gkrik blouz

78 RPM Records
1/3/1928, New York, Dimitriadis Tetos

To gelekaki

78 RPM Records
22/02/1933, New York, Ollandezos Spyros

Den se thelo pia

78 RPM Records
06/1910, Smyrna (Izmir), [Di Chiara Vincenzo]

O pothos tou naftou

78 RPM Records
1/10/1928, Athens (?), Michailidis Menelaos

Eida matia [To stymmeno to stafyli i Giati metho]

78 RPM Records
2/10/1928, Athens (?), Attik (Triantafyllou Kleon)

Athens

78 RPM Records
1929, Athens, Vitalis Giorgos

Tagko ton rodon

78 RPM Records
1929, Athens, Schreier Filippo, Bottero Aldo

Gkranantina

78 RPM Records
1929, Athens, Barrera Tomás, Calleja Rafael

Zigkolo

78 RPM Records
1930, Athens, Casucci Leonello

Marekiare

78 RPM Records
1930, Athens, Tosti Francesco Paolo

Ti mikri gonia

78 RPM Records
1932, Athens, Pearly Fred, Chagnon Pierre

Tosoi sou 'pan s' agapo

78 RPM Records
1927, Athens, Attik (Triantafyllou Kleon)

Afta ta mavra matia

78 RPM Records
1927, Athens, Vouros K.

I akrothalassia

78 RPM Records
1927, Athens, [Sirigniano M. Adaptation: Efstathiadis Th.]

Voronof!

78 RPM Records
1928, Athens, Naltsas Themis

Ti megaleia

78 RPM Records
1929, Athens, Naltsas Themis

Spaniolikes kithares

78 RPM Records
1930, Athens, Schisa Mario

Agonia

78 RPM Records
1939, Athens, Portokallis Minas

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ELAFRO (LIGHT STYLE)

Gyrna (Reviens)

Chavagia

Ena bouketo menexedes

Sto Gkazochori

Kathe agapi (Dyo cheilakia lene s' agapo)

Zitate na sas po

C 'est un refrain d' amour

Ki omos...

Na zei kaneis i na mi zei

Eida matia

Chrysoula

I varka

Thymasai sto sinema

To koritsi

To gelekaki

Anamnisi glykia

Ean eicha ekato

Paizo poka, paizo pinokli

I gynaika pou skotonei

Konstantinoupoli

To proto erotiko fili

Perasan chronia

Oritzinal gkrik blouz

To gelekaki

Den se thelo pia

O pothos tou naftou

Eida matia [To stymmeno to stafyli i Giati metho]

Athens

Tagko ton rodon

Gkranantina

Zigkolo

Marekiare

Ti mikri gonia

Tosoi sou 'pan s' agapo

Afta ta mavra matia

I akrothalassia

Voronof!

Ti megaleia

Spaniolikes kithares

Agonia

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