The Laughing Boy (To Yelasto Paidi), Brendan Behan, Mikis Theodorakis

Paddy Sammon asked me to provide this link, which I do gladly.

I still have a reel-to-reel tape recording of Maria Farandouri's concert on 11 June 1971, at the Overseas Students Centre, Portland Place, when I requested her to sing "To Yelasto Paidi" and "Rodostomo", at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txzg9hzU_oM

Here she is singing the same song at a rather larger gathering in October 1974

Update, "Who was the Laughing Boy", EnetEnglish, March 2014

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Sinead O'Connor sings


Maria Farandouri at The British Council, a beautiful British folk song, sung in English, 11 June, 1971, The trees they grow so high

From the same recital:

Kleis' to parathiro


See also: Maria Farandouri, Mikis Theodorakis, London Concerts,  1970-1971