Summary: “Give Me Love. Songs of the Brokenhearted – Baghdad, 1925-1929″. In February 1925 the engineer Robert Beckett, travelling from India, recorded 200 titles for a new series on HMV, the label allotted to the region. The sessions were organised by Meir Hakkak, the eldest of 4 brothers running a record, gramophone and musical instruments shop [...]
