To Tzitziki Kai I Parea Tou

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To Tzitziki Kai I Parea Tou
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Soundtrack album by Anna Vissi
Released 1980
Label EMI/Columbia
Anna Vissi chronology
To Tzitziki Kai I Parea Tou
(1980)
Daimones
(1991)

To Tzitziki Kai I Parea Tou (The Cricket And His Friends) is the name of a soundtrack to a Greek children's musical of the same name which featured singer Anna Vissi on one song. It was released in 1980 in Greece and Cyprus by EMI Columbia Greece. Music is by Sakis Tsilikis and lyrics by Giannis Kalamitsis. In 2006, the original LP was released for the first time on CD, in remastered sound.

Anna Vissi Cypriot recording artist and actress

Anna Vissi, also known as Anna Vishy, is a Greek Cypriot singer, songwriter, actress, television presenter, radio personality, and businesswoman. She studied music at conservatories and performed locally before moving to the professional scene in Athens, in 1973, where she signed with Minos and simultaneously collaborated with other musical artists and released promotional singles of her own while studying at the University of Athens.

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Track listing

  1. "Proza-Eisagogi (To Tzitziki Kai I Parea Tou)" (Prose / Introduction (The cicada and his company))
  2. "Eprepe File" (I should have a friend)
  3. "Tziri-Tziri-Tziri" (Jiri, jiri, jiri)
  4. "Pame Na Fygoume" (Let's go)
  5. "Enas Epistimon" (A scientist)
  6. "Tha Ithela Mia Mera" (I would like one day)
  7. "Afto Den To Katalava" (I didn't understand this)
  8. "Fevgoume-Fevgoume" (We're leaving, we're leaving)
  9. "Oraia Pou ‘Nai H Zoi Stin Eksohi" (Nice where's the life in the countryside)
  10. "Sto Kato-Kato Tis Grafis" (At the end of the day)
  11. "Gia Kai Hara Tzitziki" (Greetings cicada)
  12. "M’ Aresei Na Doulevo" (I don't like to work)
  13. "Stous Mikrous Mas Filous" (To my little friends)
  14. "Einai T’ Oneiro" (This is the dream)
  15. "Ta Raftika Ths Giagias" (The sewing granny)(performed by Anna Vissi)

Orchestrations: 1-14 by Sakis Tsilikis, 15 by Haris Andreadis

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References

http://www.musical.gr/cddetails.php?gui_language=1&CD_code=094636618920