For Padya
Mentors and long-time collaborators
Frank Andrews
Joel Bresler
Paul Cleary
Harry Coster
Bob Dylan
Ruth Edge
Toon Ekkers
Pekka Gronow
Michael Gunrem
Menios Kalyviotis
Alan Kelly
Panayotis Kounadis
Ahmet Özturanli
John Prine
Walt Sammis
Dieter Schulze
Takis Sideris
Cemal Ünlü
Arnoud Vrolijk
Christian Zwarg
Ahmad Shafiq Abu'Auf
Ismail Akçay
Gökhan Akçura
Ayhan Aktar
Abdal'aziz Anani †
Robert Anhegger
Orhan Arasli
Mike Aylward
Bruce Bastin
Harry Belle
Fikret Bertug
Marcel Blumenthal
Rinus Blijleven
Rik Boeschoten
Lauren Brody
Michael Brooks
Khawar Chaudry
Pat Conte
David K. Crowne
Douglas P. Crowne
Isa Çelik
Mohssine Dahhan
Maryanne Dassonville
Richard Davies
Gene DeAnna
Andreas Dellis
Nikos Dionisopoulos
Everhard Ditters
Axel Ebenböck
Björn Englund
Grigoris Falireas
Frank Gesemann
Wilma Granda Noboa
Pablo Guerrero Gutierrez
Robje ter Haar-Romeny
Harold Hagopian
Can Harcaroglu
Frans van Hasselt
Benno Häupl
Tinus Heijmans
Werner Heine
Debbie Heinly
Sofia Hernandez
Ergun Hiçyilmaz
Don Hill
Christiane Hofer
Hero Hokwerda
Lawrence Holdridge
Joshua Horowitz
Charles Howard
Peter Hulpusch
Paula Jansen
Muammer Karabey
Jenny Keen
Michael Kinnear
Antonis Kontos
Frédéric Lagrange
Kees Lambalk
Mike Langridge
Hans Leijenaar
Suzanne Lewis
Rainer Lotz
Hector Lorenzo Lucci
Wulf-Ekkehard Lucke
David Mason
Antonio Massisimo
Tina McCarthy
Bill Dean-Myatt
Christian Müller
Harrie van Oirschot †
Nicole van Os
Jan Willem Ovink
Melih Özaltiner
Gül Özlen
Frits Paerels
Spiros Papaioannou
Dino Pappas †
Haralambos Pavlopoulos †
Anita Pesce
John Pfeifer †
Bas Plaatsman
Ben Poelman
Margaret Posehn
Gerard van Rooy †
Mark Rosen
Joel Rubin
Cengiz Sahin
Mehmet Sahinbas
Henry Sapoznik
Niyazi Sayin
Rein A. Schenk
Martin Schwartz
Edwin Seroussi
Steve Shapiro
Richard Spottswood
Stefan Streif
Bert Strötbaum
Sevki Sünnetçi
Wouter Swets
Maurizio Tiberi
Serdar Uçar
Pandelis Vrondos
Johan G. de Waard †
Axel Weggen
Hans Peter Woessner
Philip Yampolsky
And a special word of thanks to the following organizations:
EMI MUSIC ARCHIVES
ANCESTRY
ROOTSWEB
FAMILYSEARCH
ELLIS ISLAND
RAOGK (Random Acts Of Genealogical Kindness)
NSA (National Sound Archive = British Library)
Without them my life would have been completely different.
And this website too...
Dedicated to the memory of
Loes Strötbaum (1940-2008) and Iordanis Tsomidis (1933-2006)
Webmaster Cas Frankema
Additional thanks to my backup webmasters, Toon Pennings and Lourens Blok,
who were there when I needed them