Vassilis Tsitsanis and Yiannis Papaioannou were probably the two most prolific rembetika-laika composers. Tsitsanis wrote over 2000 songs and Papaioannou wrote some of the best and was a great performer. In the fifties and into the sixties they played together frequently until Papaioannou's death in a car accident in 1972. Photo from Rembetika Tragoudia by Elia Petropoulou