Spent most of the afternoon listening to CD's - Pharoah Sanders "Thembi" and in particular this one -



This is a fascinating collection of songs from old 78's that have been collected by Christoph Wagner. There are Irish tunes, Serbo-Croat, German, Finnish, Norwegian, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Mexican, Swish and Austrian etc. I have been trying to find You Tube tracks of these tunes but none seem to exist, apart from this Jewish one by Morris Goldstein "Die Griene Cuisiene"



and this one by Finnish emigrant Arthur Kylander - Oi kuinka engeliksi mielin



Plus this one by another Finn  Hiski Salomaa  and the song Lännen lokari



This is an old Finnish immigrant song from the USA recorded in New York at 01.06.1930.
In fact Hiski Salomaa wasn't the most famous singer at Finns ballrooms, but he is one of those few, whose songs has been recorded and recordings has survived through these years.
These songs are mainly stories about hard work, homesick and clever notices about their new home country.
Finnish immigrants were known as "quiet people", they were hard workers working mainly as loggers and miners.
At free time they gathered together at their Halls where this kind of travelling musicians were entertaining them.
In some songs they are using Fingelska, an language including some words from English.
I hope owners of the rights want to see this as an honor to artist, which it really is !
And same goes to these random photos, which I have found from net.
My hope is , that everyone can just listen to these songs and think some minutes of those hard times, which these brave men and women has spent far away from home. Enjoy !

Enjoy.