Gian Franco Reverberi (born 12 December 1934) is an Italian composer and musician. He worked mainly on the soundtracks for

Spaghetti Westerns The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...

. Reverberi was one of the first Italian

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artists. He also worked with his brother Gian Piero on the song "Last Man Standing" (or "Nel Cimitero di Tucson") from the 1968 soundtrack of ''

Django, Prepare a Coffin ''Django, Prepare a Coffin'' ( it, Preparati la bara!, “Prepare the Coffin!”), alternatively titled ''Viva Django'', is a List of Italian films of 1968, 1968 Cinema of Italy, Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The f ...

(Preparati la bara!)'' (one of many unofficial sequels to ''Django''), which forms the basis of

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's hit "

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".SPLENDIDA PROJECT: Does that make me ~~crazy~~ Django ?
/ref> Both brothers are listed as writers of the song. Among his other credited film scores are ''

Soldati e capelloni ''Soldati e capelloni'' is a 1967 Italian " musicarello" comedy film directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti, written by Augusto Caminito and Giovanni Grimaldi, produced by Franco Cittadini and Stenio Fiorentini and starred by Franco Lantieri, Brizi ...

'' (1967), '' A Black Veil for Lisa'' (1968), ''

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'' (1968), '' ¡Viva América!'' (1969), ''

Venus in Furs ''Venus in Furs'' (german: Venus im Pelz, links=no) is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called '' Legacy of Cai ...

'' (1969), ''

La ragazza del prete ''La ragazza del prete'' (''The girlfriend of the priest'') is a 1970 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Domenico Paolella. Cast * Nicola Di Bari: Don Michele / Nicola * Susanna Martinková: Erika * Isabella Biagini: Maria Innocenza F ...

'' (1970), ''

Black Turin ''Black Turin'' ( it, Torino nera) is a 1972 crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. The film received mixed reviews, but was commercially successful. Cast * Bud Spencer: Rosario Rao * Françoise Fabian: Lucia Rao * Marcel Bozzuffi: Fridda * G ...

'' (1972), ''

Black Magic Rites ''Black Magic Rites'' ( it, Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel Trecento..., lit=Rites, black magic and secret orgies in the fourteenth century...) is a 1973 Italian film directed by Renato Polselli. Produced under the title of ''La reincarnazione' ...

'' (1973) and ''

A Policewoman on the Porno Squad ''La poliziotta della squadra del buon costume'' (internationally released as ''A Policewoman on the Porno Squad'') is a 1979 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini. It is the sequel of Tarantini's '' La poliziotta fa car ...

'' (1979). He also worked with

Enzo Jannacci Vincenzo Jannacci (3 June 1935 – 29 March 2013), more commonly known as Enzo Jannacci (), was an Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, actor and comedian. He is regarded as one of the most important artists in the post-war Italian music scene. ...

and

Giorgio Gaber Giorgio Gaber (), byname of Giorgio Gaberscik (25 January 1939 – 1 January 2003), was an Italian singer, composer, actor, and playwright. He was also an accomplished guitar player and author of one of the first rock songs in Italian ("Ciao ti ...

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