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Miss Italia (album)
''Miss Italia'' is a studio album by Italy, Italian singer Patty Pravo, released in 1978 by RCA Italiana. It includes one of her biggest hits, "Pensiero stupendo". Overview The album consisted mostly of cover version, covers, such as Italian versions of "It's a Heartache" by Bonnie Tyler and "Love → Building on Fire" by Talking Heads. The title track was a cover of Styx (band), Styx's "Miss America", which was excluded from the final track list, but was performed during the accompanying concert tour. Some of the songs were performed in the controversial Italian TV show ''Stryx'' broadcast in autumn 1978. The album also includes "Pensiero stupendo", one of Patty Pravo's most well known hits. The ballad "Sentirti" was released as the second single, but did not chart. ''Miss Italia'' was a top 10 chart success in Italy. It was re-released on CD in 1998, and again on LP in 2018. Track listing ;Side A #"Johnny" – 3:37 #"Sentirti" – 4:43 #"Bello mio" – 4:28 #"It's a Heartache, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patty Pravo
Patty Pravo (born Nicoletta Strambelli on 9 April 1948) is an Italian singer. She debuted in 1966 and remained most successful commercially for the rest of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Having suffered a decline in popularity in the following decade, she experienced a career revival in the late 1990s and reinstated her position on Italian music charts. Her most popular songs include "La bambola" (1968), " Pazza idea" (1973), " Pensiero stupendo" (1978) and " ...E dimmi che non vuoi morire" (1997). She scored fourteen top 10 albums (including three number ones) and fourteen top 10 singles (including two number ones) in her native Italy. Pravo participated at the Sanremo Music Festival ten times, most recently in 2019, and has won three critics' awards at the festival. She also performed twelve times at the Festivalbar. Biography 1960s and 1970s Strambelli studied at the conservatory institute Benedetto Marcello and was acquainted with American poet Ezra Pound and the future ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
