KAIMOS, O

Created on 30/07/2005
Latest update on 12/02/2024

Artist: Grigoris Bithikotsis
Author: Mikis Theodorakis/Dimitris Christodoulou
Label: Columbia
Year: 1962

Means: The Sorrow. Introduced in revue Omorphi Poli (Beautiful City). Theodorakis wrote it while released from prison for the second time. He suffered his first haemoptysis during this recording session. See also: I Kyra.

Covers:

1963:

Maria Farantouri [when she was 16; this is when author Theodorakis first heard her, never to let her go again]

1965:

Fleury Dantouaki

1965:

Nana Mouskouri [as Kom Naar Korfoe]

1970:

Mikis Theodorakis [author]

1970:

Iva Zanicchi [as Un Fiume Amaro]

1970s:

Themis Adamantidis

1971:

Mélina Mercouri [as Attendre, attendre]

1972:

Vicky Leandros [n°1 NL as Ich hab' die Liebe geseh'n, also in french as L'Amour brillait dans tes yeux and also in Greek]

1985:

Klaus Hoffmann [idem]

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