Cloudy Sunday

A. Fatouros notes that no name is provided for the female character and that it contains no obvious social or political context.

However, he argues that "[f]or those who have heard it, for those who have danced to its music or sang it, when happy, sad, drunk or nostalgic, the feeling it expresses has a life of its own, an existence independent of any precise cause".

Είσαι μια μέρα σαν κι αυτή, που 'χασα την χαρά μου.

At the time, he regularly performed to small audiences in a bar he owned as the German occupation authorities considered Rebetiko essentially degenerate and limited its outlets.

In spite of its limited audience during the occupation period itself, it is strongly associated with it in Greek popular culture.

German tanks in Thessaloniki in April 1944. Tsitsanis considered that "Cloudy Sunday" responded to the experience of German occupation.