Armenian Folk Songs in Massachusetts ca. 1964-69, by Paul and Angie Hagopian & the Phonophils

Armenian Folk Songs in Massachusetts ca. 1964-69

by Paul and Angie Hagopian & the Phonophils

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	1.	Katina 04:04
	2.	Yeni Haleemeh 03:17
	3.	Arab Kuzi 03:52
	4.	Finjan 03:18
	5.	Adalardan 04:29
	6.	Kashlari Inje Inje 03:08
	7.	Oud Taxim - Munchkal 06:03
	8.	Yeni Konyal 04:21
	9.	Ishlerim 03:46
	10.	Adalar 02:45
	11.	Violin Double String Cefti Teli 02:44
	12.	Ahsah Yar Jahn (Tell Me Dear) 03:21
	13.	Yerp Kez Desah (When I Saw You) 05:13
	14.	Teran Kove (At the Door) 04:14
	15.	Shek Mazerov (Golden Hair) 03:25
	16.	Glorig Manche (Loveable Boy) 03:35

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Paul Bogos Hagopian was born Jan. 6. 1906 in Adana, Turkey. He arrived in Massachusetts with his parents and brother Hagop, who was one year older, in 1910. He attended one year of high school before working in a textile factory and then as a finisher in a wood mill in Essex Mass. After having been stationed at Fort Devens during World War II, he went back to the wood mill married his wife Rose (16 years his junior). Their son Samuel was born ca. 1949. He later worked as a barber at the Medfield Insane Asylum.

His sister Angie (Angelina) was born in Massachusetts ca. 1925 and studied music at the New England Conservatory. She worked as a bookkeeper in a bank while playing piano at private events and playing as a church organist. They formed a quartet called the Phonophils and played nightclubs, concerts, picnics, and church functions before self-releasing their first LP in the mid-60s. A second LP was released several years later, by which time, although still credited to Paul, his violin-playing was less prominent and Angie’s leadership and increasingly florid piano-playing was dominant. But Paul’s recordings represent among the last made by Armenians of his generation in the U.S.

Both of them died within months of each other in 1981; Angie in March then Paul in October.

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released January 11, 2023

Transfers, restorations, and notes by Ian Nagoski

Paul Hagopian - violin and vocals
Angie Hagopian - piano
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Joseph Kouyoumjian - oud (tracks 1-11)
Harry Papazian - darbuke (tracks 1-11)
Leo Parnagian - tambourine (tracks 1-11)
Arthur Papazian - percussion (tracks 1-11)
Charles Kouyoumjian - oud (tracks 12-16)
Robert Magoumian - drums (tracks 12-16)
Paula Hagopian - zils (tracks 12-16)

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