Stavros Xarchakos Melina's Greece LP TV Soundtrack Melina Mercouri Very Rare
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Stavros Xarchakos Melina's Greece LP TV Soundtrack Melina Mercouri Very Rare Archival Sleeve
Stavros Xarchakos In 1964, he composed the music for the songs included in a series of documentaries entitled "Melina's Greece", which were created by the American television network ABC to promote Greece. Melina Mercouri, performed the songs "Ti exei kai klaiei to paidi" and "Na me thymasai” with lyrics by Eftychia Papagiannopoulou and Vangelis Goufas, respectively.
Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri (18 October 1920 – 6 March 1994) was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a political family that was prominent over multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960). Mercouri was also nominated for one Tony Award, three Golden Globes and two BAFTA Awards in her acting career. In 1987 she was awarded a special prize in the first edition of the Europe Theatre Prize.
Stavros Xarchakos, Greek: Σταύρος Ξαρχάκος [ˈstavros ksarˈxakos] (born 14 March 1939) is a Greek composer and conductor.
Stavros Xarchakos was born in Athens, where he studied at the Athens Conservatoire. He has family origins from the Mani Peninsula. He emerged in the Greek music scene around 1963, composing music for the theatre and cinema. Among his collaborators was lyricist Lefteris Papadopoulos and singer Nikos Xylouris
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