This recording, which was re-released under catalog number B. 74371-II, is Kostas Skarvelis' last on Parlophone. Alongside the recording "Kryfa tha pantreftoume" (Kostas Tsanakos, Columbia CG 1733-1 – DG 6592, Athens, March 1941), these constitute the last songs recorded by the composer prior to his passing on April 8, 1942.

The melodic theme of the song’s verse appears to correspond with the Jewish (klezmer/Yiddish) repertoire. Specifically, around 1912, a recording titled "Фолнешстская" (Folneshtskaya), referring to the town of Fălești in Bessarabia, was made in Europe. The label on the record (Stella Concert Record 13929 – 13929) identifies it as a Romanian-Eastern melody, composed by Бельф (Belf) and performed by a virtuoso clarinetist. According to the archive website of Yuri Bernikov, "the presence of the name "Belf" on the record labels has led more than one person (including Avrahm Galper himself, who published a book of these melodies) to misguidedly attribute this and other recordings like it to the band known as ’Belf’s Romanian Orchestra’ which made numerous phonograph records for the Syrena and Pishushchy Amur companies. This Stella record, and many other like it, features an identically-configured ensemble which performed imitations of the Belf Orchestra’s highly-successful Syrena records for the Stella record company, an obvious attempt to capitalize on the success of the records by the actual Belf ’Orchestra’".

Approximately fourteen years later, in January 1926, clarinetist Dave Tarras, accompanied by an orchestra, recorded the same musical theme in New York under the title "מײַן טײַערע אָדעסאַ" (Mein Tayere Odessa, My Dear Odessa) for Columbia (Columbia W106203-2 – 8103F).