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Johnny Dorelli
Giorgio Guidi (born 20 February 1937), known professionally as Johnny Dorelli, is an Italian actor, singer and television host. Early life Giorgio Guidi was born in Meda, Lombardy, Italy. In 1946, he moved with his family to New York City, where his father, Aurelio Guidi, found work as an opera singer under the stage name Nino D'Aurelio. He studied double bass and piano at the High School of Music and Art in New York. His stage name Dorelli was chosen in imitation of how ''D'Aurelio'' was pronounced in English. Career Dorelli's show business career began when he was discovered by bandleader Percy Faith, who brought him on '' The Ken Murray Show''. He later appeared on the show ''By Popular Demand'' conducted by Robert Alda, accompanied by Paul Whiteman. He received great acclaim, with some American newspapers describing Dorelli as a "phenomenal Italian boy". However he returned to Italy in 1955 due to the expiry of his residence permit. He debuted as singer and pianis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meda, Lombardy
Meda is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Monza and Brianza, located in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, close to Milan and Como. It is known as a center of furniture production. Meda is served by Meda railway station. History Meda's history is linked to the history of its convent and of its foundation. From the latter's location on a mound () stems the town's name. According to legend, the Saints Aimo and Vermund, counts of Turbigo, were attacked by two wild boars while hunting. To save their lives, they swore to God that, if saved, they would build a convent right there. The convent was built around 780 near an old little church dedicated to St. Vittore. In order to be free from the control of the new priorate, the people of Meda built another church dedicated to St. Mary and St. Sebastian. The quarrels between the inhabitants and the convent ended on 10 December 1252, when the Prioress Maria da Besozzo gave up all her political, administrative and economic pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanremo Music Festival 1958
The Sanremo Music Festival 1958 (), officially the 8th Italian Song Festival (), was the eight annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 30 January and 1 February 1958, and broadcast by (RAI). The show was presented by actor Gianni Agus, assisted by television announcer Fulvia Colombo. According to the rules of this edition every song was performed in a double performance by a couple of singers or groups, with some artists performing multiple songs. The winner of the festival was " Nel blu, dipinto di blu", performed by Domenico Modugno (who was also the composer of the song) and Johnny Dorelli. Modugno went on to perform the song for at the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. Participants and results Broadcasts Local broadcast All shows were broadcast on Italian Television and Secondo Programma, beginning at 22:00 CET. International broadcasts Known details on the broadcasts of the final in each country, including the specific broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanremo Music Festival 1967
The Sanremo Music Festival 1967 (), officially the 17th Italian Song Festival (), was the 17th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 26 and 28 January 1967, and broadcast by (RAI). The show was presented by Mike Bongiorno and Renata Mauro. According to the rules of this edition, every song was performed in a double performance by a couple of singers or groups. The winners of the festival were Iva Zanicchi and Claudio Villa with the song "Non pensare a me". Villa was thus selected to represent at the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, with "Non andare più lontano". Following the festival, the biggest success and most popular song was "Cuore matto" by Little Tony (singer), Little Tony, which sold 6 million copies and was the no.1 hit for nine consecutive weeks in the Italian hit parade. During the festival, following the elimination of his song "Ciao amore ciao", performed with his partner Dalida, singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco committed suicid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'immensità
"L'immensità" (in English: ''The Immensity'') is a 1967 Italian song, which was first presented in a double performance by Johnny Dorelli and Don Backy at the Sanremo Music Festival 1967, 17th Sanremo Music Festival, placing ninth. It represents a signature song for both Backy and Dorelli, entering for several weeks in the Italian charts. L'immensità/Soltanto Il Sottoscritto Johnny Dorelli inserted the song in 1967 45s ''L'immensità/Soltanto Il Sottoscritto'' and in 1967 33s ''L'Immensità''. ''"Soltanto Il Sottoscritto"'' is a Rhythm And Blues song, written by the same Johnny Dorelli. Mina version In 1967, the song was re-recorded by Italian singer Mina (Italian singer), Mina. She performed the song live for the first time on the TV show ' on 22 April 1967, where she was also the host; in May, Mina's album ''Sabato sera – Studio Uno '67'' was released, which also included this song. Released as a single, the song failed to perform well, spending two weeks on the Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crooner
A crooner is a singer who performs with a smooth, intimate style that originated in the 1920s. The crooning style was made possible by better microphones that picked up quieter sounds and a wider range of frequencies, allowing the singer to access a greater dynamic range and exploit the proximity effect. This suggestion of intimacy was supposedly wildly attractive to women, especially a youth subculture known at the time as " bobby soxers". The crooning style developed among singers who performed with big bands, and reached its height in the 1940s to late 1960s. Crooning is epitomized by jazz vocalists of the era such as Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee and Frank Sinatra, although Sinatra did not consider himself or Crosby to be "crooners". Other performers, such as Russ Columbo, also rejected the term. History This dominant popular vocal style coincided with the advent of radio broadcasting and electrical recording. Before the advent of the microphone, singers had to project to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Hallyday
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and Pop music, pop singer and actor, credited with having brought rock and roll to France. During a career spanning 57 years, Hallyday released 79 albums and sold more than 110 million records worldwide, mainly in the French-speaking world, making him one of the List of the best-selling music artists, best-selling artists in the world. He had five diamond albums, 40 Music recording sales certification, gold albums, 22 platinum albums and earned ten ''Victoires de la Musique''. He sang an estimated 1,154 songs and performed 540 duets with 187 artists. Credited for his strong voice and his spectacular shows, he sometimes arrived by entering a stadium through the crowd and once by jumping from a helicopter above the Stade de France, where he performed nine times. Among his 3,257 shows completed in 187 tours, the most memorable were at Parc des Prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Francis
Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero ( ; born December 12, 1937), known as Connie Francis, is a retired American Pop music, pop singer, actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She is estimated to have sold more than 200 million records worldwide. In 1960, Francis was recognized as the most successful female artist in Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Australia, and in every other country where records were purchased. She was the first woman in history to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 when "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" topped the chart in 1960, she was also the first woman to have 3 No. 1 hits on the chart, just three of her 53 career hits. Biography 1937–1955: Early life and first appearances Francis was born to an Italian-American family (one of her grandfathers having immigrated from Reggio Calabria in 1905) in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, the first child of George Franconero (191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You're The Top
"You're the Top" is a list song by Cole Porter, from the 1934 musical '' Anything Goes''. It is about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other. The best-selling version was Paul Whiteman's Victor single, which made the top five. It was the most popular song from ''Anything Goes'' at the time, with hundreds of parodies. Some of the lyrics were re-written by P. G. Wodehouse for the British version of ''Anything Goes''. Composer Robert Kapilow refers to "You're the Top" as one of Porter's greatest songs. Composition Porter is believed to have written the song in Paris, while eating dinner at the Le Bœuf sur le toit with Lela Emery, the wife of Alastair Mackintosh. The two of them spent the time amusing themselves with a word game, "making up a list of superlatives that rhymed." People and items referenced in the song ''The following is a list of the references used in the version recorded by Cole Porter on November 26, 1934:'' * Colosseum * Louvre Museum * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ed Sullivan Show
''The Ed Sullivan Show'' is an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to March 28, 1971, and was hosted by New York City, New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the ''CBS Sunday Movie, CBS Sunday Night Movie''. In 2002, ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' was ranked No. 15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, ''TV Guide''s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the series finished No. 31 in ''TV Guide'' Magazine's 60 Best Series of All Time. History From 1948 until its cancellation in 1971, the show ran on CBS every Sunday night from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time Zone, Eastern Time, and it is one of the few entertainment shows to have run in the same weekly time slot on the same network for more than two decades (during its first season, it ran from 9 to 10 p.m. ET). Virtually every type of entertainment appeared on the show; classical musicians, opera singers, popular recording artists, songwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettera A Pinocchio
"Lettera a Pinocchio" is a 1959 Italian song composed by Mario Panzeri. The song premiered at the first edition of the children song festival Zecchino d'Oro. In spite of not winning the competition, the song got a large commercial success thanks to the version recorded by Johnny Dorelli, at the time very popular thanks to the two Sanremo Music Festival he had just won in couple with Domenico Modugno, with the songs " Volare" and " Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)". The song was later covered by numerous artists, including Rita Pavone, Gigliola Cinquetti, Duo Fasano, Gino Latilla, Marino Marini, Rosanna Fratello, Mino Reitano, Quartetto Cetra, Jenny Luna, Robertino, Andrea Balestri. In 1964 Tony Renis recorded the song with arrangement and production by Quincy Jones. Bing Crosby Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian, entertainer and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love In Portofino
"Love in Portofino" is a 1958 song by Italian writing duo Leo Chiosso and Fred Buscaglione, first sung by Buscaglione. It was picked up by the Italian-French singer Dalida the next year, who recorded it with additional French-language lyrics written by . Her version achieved sales success in the European market, spawning dozens of covers. Embraced by musical intellectuals as a masterpiece of Dalida's early repertoire of the 1950s, it eventually became the symbolic song for the Italian coastal town Portofino, where it is set. Background Leo Chiosso, an Italian lyricist, wrote down the song in 1958. It was mostly in Italian, with only the repeating verse "I found my love in Portofino" in English. The first one to record the song was its composer, Fred Buscaglione. French lyricist Jacques Larue soon discovered the song and adapted it wholly in French, titled "À San Cristina", which was immediately recorded by a few French singers, with no success. It was then when Eddie Barclay n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piove (Ciao, Ciao Bambina)
"Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)" ("It's raining ye bye, baby girl) is a song composed by Domenico Modugno with Italian lyrics by Eduardo Verde. It won first prize at the 1959 Sanremo Music Festival, where it was performed by both Modugno and Johnny Dorelli. Performed by Modugno, it in the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 held in Cannes, placing sixth. Dalida recorded a song in French as "Ciao ciao bambina", which became a big hit in France and Canada and a pop standard in the francophone world. It was used in Ralph Lauren commercial for their fall 2021 collection. Background Conception "Piove" was composed by Domenico Modugno with Italian lyrics by Eduardo Verde. It is a dramatic ballad, with the singer telling his lover that he knows their relationship is about to come to a close. He asks her for one more kiss and then tells her not to turn back as she walks away from him, because he still has feelings for her. Sanremo On 29–31 January 1959, "Piove" performed by both Modugno a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
