Marika Papagika's first recording in America

Marika Papagika (Kos 1893 – New York 1943) made her first test recording on July 19, 1918, at Victor Records studios in New York with the song "You Forgot Me," a recording that probably didn't go very well and was repeated three months later. On 4.12.1918, four more recordings followed; they became popular, got a listing number, and became Papagika's first two albums in America; it was a version of the Smyrna Minore and three folk songs. In 1919 she recorded again, this time at Columbia, with outstanding musicians: Athanasios Makedonas on violin, Markos Sifnios on cello, and her husband Costas Papagikas on the harpsichord. In July and August 1919, she recorded 25 more songs, another adaptation of Smyrna Minore, a Serenata by Schubert, the Zeibekiko "Your Whole," and Ne Itsoun Saidin, the first among the five songs she recorded in Turkish. She met with immediate and great success, as proved by the records' releases and the advertisements in the time's press.