ULTRA RARE ROMANIAN FOLK MUSIC FEATURING TWO ARTISTS ON CRISTEA'S ROMANIAN RECORD CO OF NYC.

78 RPM, Catalog # 550, Side A is Ion Luican performing Piata Mare, Piata Mica and Side B is T. Zavaidoc performing Cand Eram La Mama Fata.  The label's titling has faded and the photos of the labels needed to be taken at an angle.  The labels are deep groove and the RECORD IS IN EXCELLENT PLAYABLE CONDITION.  There are a few faint scratches over a pristine surface, I'll grade it in the range of VG++ to NM.  

On Romanian singer Ian Luican from the internet:  "He made his debut on Radio in 1933; sing live music commercials. In the same year, he wins a contest organized by the Odeon record company; becomes an employee of the company. He prints on gramophone records in Berlin and debuts with the songs: "I miss home" by Elly Roman and "Sa ti cant samovare" by Max Halm in 1937. During this period, the 30s-40s, he sings with the orchestras: Petrică Moțoi (with whom he made his Radio debut), Vasile Julea, Frații Stănescu, Elly Roman, Ernst Hönigsberg, George Corologos. From 1948 he began to abandon the genre of light music, in favor of Romanian musical folklore and romance."

On Romanian singer T. Zaviadoc from the internet:  "Marin Teodorescu, known as Zavaidoc, was a Romanian singer, the country's best known lăutar in the interwar period. Born in Pitești into a family of lăutari, he made his way to Bucharest as a youth, together with his taraf partner. He released his first disc with Columbia Records in 1925, meeting with instant success. He died two decades later and was buried at Cernica."

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