This recording includes a song that was recorded, under various titles and in various versions, several times in Greek historical discography, either as a song or an instrumental piece. For example:

– “I Tourka”, Elliniki Estudiantina (Greek Estudiantina) or Estoudiantina P. Zormpanis, Athens, October 1907 (Zonophone 10743b – X-104638 and Gramophone 3-14676, 4-14642).
– “Tourka dernei ti sklava tis”, Marika Papagkika and Nikos Relias (clarinet), Kostas Papagikas (cimbalom), Markos Sifnios (cello), New York, 1923 (Columbia USA 59803 – E 5280).
– “Kato stou valtou ta choria”, Polydor Orchestra, Athens, 1927 (Polydor 1335 bk – V 50269), in a harmonization by Spyros Kaisaris.
– “Tourka (Kato ston kampo ton platy)”, Choir – Folk orchestra, Athens, 1926 (Polydor 4549 ar – V 45073), arranged by Takis Marinos.
– “Tourka (Kato stou valtou ta choria)”, Michalis Vlachopoulos and Choir – Folk orchestra), Athens, February 10, 1922 (His Master's Voice BS 114-1 – AO 21 and Α.Ο. 111 and Victor 77666-B).
– “Tourka dernei ti sklava tis”, Giorgos Savaris, Tzon and Lucien Miliaris – Grand Orchestra conducted by Ed. Lancetta, Athens or Milan, 1927 (Columbia UK 20179 – 8215).
– “Kato stou valtou ta choria”, Petros Doukakis – Folk orchestra, Athens, June 1928 (His Master's Voice BF 1722 – AO 247).
– “Kato stou valtou ta choria”, Serafeim Gerotheodorou – Nikos Karakostas (clarinet), Athens, 1934 (Odeon GO 1933 – GA 1718).
– “Kato stou valtou ta choria”, Giorgos Papasideris – G. Anestopoulos (clarinet) and Folk orchestra, Athens, 1938 (Columbia C.G. 1822 – D.G. 6419 and Columbia USA XCO 23962 – 56390-F), as an arrangement by G. Papasideris – P. Tountas.
– “Kato stou valtou ta choria”, Kostas Karagiannis (clarinet), Giannis Livaditis (cimbalom), Kostas Skarvelis (guitar), Athens, 1931 (Columbia W.G. 246 – D.G. 188).
– “Katou stou valtou ta choria”, Nikolaos Moschonas – Michel Orchestra, USA, 1950s (Liberty 298-B).

The musical score of the song was released by Fexis publishing house, in transcription by Nikos D. Petropoulos (see here), by the Konstantinidis publishing house, in arrangement by Grigoris Konstantinidis (see here), by the Stefanos Gaitanos publishing house (see here) and Michalis Gaitanos publishing house (see here) in arrangement by Alekos A. Albertis, by Gr. Konstantinidis - G. Nikolaidis publishing house, in transcription by Grigoris Konstantinidis (see here), and by Giorgos Theofilopoulos (see here).

The song was a source of inspiration for scholar composers. Nikos Skalkottas (Chalkida, March 21, 1904 – Athens, September 19, 1949) draws musical material for “Tsamikos”, no. 9 of the second of the three series of twelve dances that make up the emblematic “36 Ellinikoi choroi” (36 Greek Dances) for orchestra. The first recording of the entire cycle of the "36 Greek Dances" as a single work, which Skalkkotas began composing in 1931 in Berlin and completed in 1936 in Athens, was made in Sverdlovsk, Russia, in 1990, 54 years after their composition, by the Ural State Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vyronas Fidetzis (2CDs, "36 Ellinikoi Choroi", Lyra 0053-53). Handwritten musical scores of the work are uploaded to the Great Music Library of Greece "Lilian Voudouri", where the Nikos Skalkottas archive (see here) is kept (see here). For more information regarding the "36 Greek Dances" by Nikos Skalkottas, see here).

In 1950, the Czech composer Dalibor Ctibor Vačkář [Korčula island, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Croatia), September 19, 1906 – Prague, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic), October 21, 1984] completed the music for the ballet "Švanda dudák" to a libretto by Jan Rey, inspired by the play "Strakonický dudák" by Josef Kajetán Tyl. The ballet premiered on July 4, 1954 at the National Theatre in Prague, directed and choreographed by Vlastimil Jílek and conducted by Jiří Bubeníček. The work includes the "Dance of Nations" suite, a cycle of eight dance acts, of which the first six form the core of the ballet's third scene. Among these dances is included, third in order, the instrumental song "Greek dance", which is based on the tune of this recording. The "Dance of Nations" suite was recorded in Czechoslovakia by the Prague National Theatre Orchestra under the direction of Zdeněk Chalabala and released on LP in the 1950s, after the ballet's premiere in 1954 [LP "Schwanda The Bagpiper (Ballet Suite)", Supraphon LPM 351].