Panagiotis Kounadis mentions the following about the recording (2010, 1: 27):

"It is a song that comes from the Aegean islands and the Asia Minor coast, and one of the oldest – commonly accepted – rebetiko songs of the period of anonymous creation. If we take into account G. Katsaros’ testimony, that when he was young in Amorgos he remembers his grandfather singing it, that is, before 1900, it becomes clear how old the song is.

The question about the recording date concerns the fact that while the singer accurately remembered incidents that set that date on 15/12/1919, R. K. Spottswood, who compiled the general list of American discography in collaboration with the University of Illinois, found the date 16/6/1927 as the date of recording in the lists of record labels; he based and compiled his timetables based on those lists. Another fact that strengthens Katsaros' point of view is the quality of the recording. The recording seems to have been made before 1925, so it was made not with a microphone but with a horn.