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La Maison Où J'ai Grandi (album)
''La maison où j'ai grandi'' is a studio album of French pop singer Françoise Hardy. It was released in France in November 1966, on LP, Disques Vogue/Vogue international industries (CLD 702-30). Published without title, except for the word ''Françoise'' on the cover, but has become known by the title of the most successful song on the album, " La maison où j'ai grandi" ("The House where I Grew Up"). Background and production In Italy from the 27th to the January 29, 1966, Françoise Hardy participated in the 16th Italian Song Festival of Sanremo to perform "Parlami di te", written by Vito Pallavicini, to music by Edoardo Vianello. Vianello wrote another song, "Ci sono cose più grandi", which Françoise took as basis for her French version ("Il est des choses"). Another participant, the singer Adriano Celentano, wrote an autobiographical song, "Il ragazzo della via Gluck", which Hardy adapted in French for her fifth album. "Il ragazzo della via Gluck" was ranked 2nd in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Hardy
Françoise Madeleine Hardy (; 17 January 1944 – 11 June 2024) was a French singer-songwriter, actress, and author. She was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure in French yé-yé music and became a Pop icon, cultural icon in France and internationally. In addition to her native French, she also sang in English, Italian, and German. Her musical career spanned more than 50 years, with over 30 studio albums released. She also represented Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest 1963. Born and raised in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, Hardy made her musical debut in 1962 on French label Disques Vogue and found immediate success through the song "Tous les garçons et les filles". Drifting away from her early rock and roll influences, she began to record in London in 1964, which allowed her to broaden her sound with albums such as ''Mon amie la rose (album), Mon amie la rose'', ''L'amitié'', ''La maison où ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (magazine)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. ''Pitchfork'' is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age. In the 2000s, ''Pitchfork'' distinguished itself from print media through its unusual editorial style, frequent updates and coverage of emerging acts. It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical hipster. It is credited with popularizing acts such as Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. ''Pitchfork'' relocated to Chicago in 1999 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. It expanded with projects including the annual Pitchfork Music Festival (launched in Chicago in 2006), the video site ''Pitchfork.tv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miki Del Prete
Michele "Miki" Del Prete (born 23 July 1935) is an Italian lyricist and record producer. Born in Bari, at young age he moved to Milan with his family, following the transfer of his father, a footballer, from A.S. Bari to Calcio Como. In the 1950s Del Prete started his career as a professional dancer. In 1959, he became a close friend and a collaborator of Adriano Celentano. During his tenure with Celentano, Del Prete worked as a lyricist, manager, producer and advisor. Among the most successful songs he wrote with Celentano are "Impazzivo per te", " Il ragazzo della via Gluck", "La coppia più bella del mondo", "Una carezza in un pugno", "Prisencolinensinainciusol" and " Soli". He also wrote songs for other artists, including Caterina Caselli's hit " Nessuno mi può giudicare". References External links * Miki Del Preteat Discogs Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Beretta
Luciano Beretta (1 January 1928 – 11 January 1994) was an Italian lyricist, best known for his long collaboration with Adriano Celentano. Life and career Born in Milan, Beretta was the son of a driver and a tailor, and had a degree in accounting. In the second half of the 1950s, after experiences as an actor, a dancer, a choreographer, and a production designer, he started her prolific career as a lyricist; hit songs he penned include Caterina Caselli's " Nessuno mi può giudicare", Milva's "Monica delle bambole", Orietta Berti's "Tu sei quello", Fausto Leali's "Un'ora fa", Domenico Modugno's "Questa è la mia vita". He was for over 20 years a close collaborator of Adriano Celentano, penning some of his best known songs, including " Il ragazzo della via Gluck", " Chi non lavora non fa l'amore", "La coppia più bella del mondo ", "Mondo in mi 7a", "Una carezza in un pugno", " Si è spento il sole"; his collaborations also include Mina, Gianni Morandi, Ornella Vanoni, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Ragazzo Della Via Gluck
"" ("The boy from Gluck Street") is an Italian Pop music, pop song by Adriano Celentano, covered by artists from many other countries. Composition The music of the song is by Adriano Celentano and the lyrics by Luciano Beretta and Miki Del Prete. It was released in 1966 as a double A-side single (music), single by Celentano, with "" on the flipside, composed by Paolo Conte with lyrics by Mogol (lyricist), Mogol and Miki Del Prete. Both tracks were musical arrangement, arranged by Detto Mariano. The tracks' duration was 4:17 for "" and 2:49 for "". History The song originally appeared in March 1966 in Celentano's album and in his follow-up album, , released in November 1966. The song debuted at the Sanremo Festival in 1966 where it achieved little success. It was eliminated from competition after the first night. But eventually it gained great favour with fans, making it the best-known and most representative of Celentano's songs, and contained many autobiographical refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Popp
André Charles Jean Popp (19 February 1924 – 10 May 2014) was a French composer, arranger and screenwriter. Biography Popp was born into a family of German-Dutch background, in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée. He started his career as a church organist, filling the place of the abbot who had been called up to serve in World War II in 1939. Popp studied music at the Saint Joseph Institute. In the 1950s he worked for the French radio station RTF, composing music for the ''Club d'Essai'' and, from 1953 to 1960, ''La Bride sur le cou''. He orchestrated a number of Juliette Gréco albums in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1960s, he co-wrote, with Pierre Cour, three songs for the Eurovision Song Contest: " Tom Pillibi", which won the competition for France when it was sung by 18-year-old newcomer Jacqueline Boyer in 1960, " Le Chant de Mallory", the 1964 French entry, performed by another newcomer, Rachel, and " L'amour est bleu" (Love is Blue) which came fourth for Luxem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Marnay
Edmond Bacri (18 December 1920 – 3 January 2003), known professionally as Eddy Marnay, was a French songwriter. In his career, he wrote more than 4000 songs, including works for Édith Piaf, Frida Boccara and Céline Dion. He was joint winner, as lyricist, of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 for " Un Jour, Un Enfant", sung by Frida Boccara. He also wrote the title song for Charlie Chaplin's 1957 film ''A King in New York''. Céline Dion Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. Referred to as the " Queen of Power Ballads", Dion's powerful, technically skilled vocals and commercially successful works have had a significant impact on popular musi ... named one of her twin sons after him in 2010, as Marnay produced and helped write Dion's first five records. References Further reading * * 1920 births 2003 deaths Burials at Montmartre Cemetery Pieds-noirs Algerian emigrants to France French composers French male composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Renis
Elio Cesari (born 13 May 1938), known by his stage name Tony Renis, is an Italian singer, composer, music producer, and film actor. Life and career Renis was born in Milan. In the mid-1950s he met with Adriano Celentano, and the two started performing an impression of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. In 1958, he was signed by the label "Combo Records", and released a few cover versions of Italian and American rock 'n' roll songs as lead vocalist of the band Combos. In 1961, Renis debuted at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Pozzanghere". In 1962, Renis returned to the Sanremo Music Festival where he gained international recognition with the song " Quando, quando, quando", written with Alberto Testa. One year later, he won the Festival with the song "Uno per tutte", and, in 1967, he finished second with the song "Quando dico che ti amo". In 1972, Renis and Testa composed the song " Grande grande grande". It was successfully interpreted by Mina, and later by Shirley Bassey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edoardo Vianello
Edoardo Vianello (born 24 June 1938) is an Italian singer, composer and actor, considered one of the most popular Italian singers of the 1960s. Career Born in Rome, Vianello started his career in 1956. His first successes came in 1961, with "Il capello" ("The Hair") and "Pinne fucile ed occhiali" ("Fins, rifle, and glasses"), which both charted up to the 2nd position in the Italian Hit Parade. Vianello had several successes in the 1960s, such as "Guarda come dondolo" ("Watch How I swing"), " Abbronzatissima" ("Very Tanned"), "O mio signore" ("Oh My Lord") which topped the charts, and "I Watussi" which went up to 3rd. After a less successful period, he re-launched his career in the 1970s, founding the duo Vianella with his wife Wilma Goich. Their main hit of the period was "Semo gente de borgata" ("We Are People from a Small Town") that reached #7. In the late 1970s, he reprised his solo career. As of 2006, songs of Vianello were included in the soundtracks of 64 films while t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Blackwell (music Producer)
Charles Blackwell (born Ramsey 20 May 1940 – 14 August 2024) was an English arranger, record producer and songwriter. He began his career in music publishing offices in Denmark Street, London. At the age of 18 he was music director of Joe Meek's record label. He became a prolific studio arranger and record producer in the 1960s and 1970s with a string of hits, and recorded with many famous artistes. He was later commissioned to orchestrate Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" for a recording to be played at every sitting of the European Parliament. Early life and career Charles Blackwell was born in Leytonstone, Essex, on 20 May 1940. His parents separated when he was young and he was sent to live with his grandparents, where he found solace in his grandmother's old upright piano and began picking out tunes. When his mother remarried he took his stepfather's surname. He began taking piano lessons and by the age of 16 was writing his own songs. He sent some to a music publisher in Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Lanzmann
Jacques Lanzmann (4 May 1927 – 21 June 2006) was a French journalist, writer and lyricist. He is best known as a novelist and for his songwriting partnership with Jacques Dutronc. Early life Lanzmann spent the early part of his life in Auvergne. His parents, Paulette (Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann, divorced shortly before World War II and, at the age of 12, he became a farmhand. Lanzmann was Jewish and, following the Battle of France, he, his mother and his siblings, pretended to be Moroccan Arabs to escape persecution by the Vichy regime. In 1943, Lanzmann and his elder brother Claude (later a noted documentary-maker) joined the Communist resistance. Jacques was taken captive by the Germans and was due to be executed by firing squad, but escaped. Lanzmann's father was one of the leading local figures in the rival ''Mouvements Unis de la Résistance'', but Jacques and Claude were not aware of this until February 1944. After the war, Lanzmann worked in Paris as builder a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone ( , ; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, Orchestration, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 film score, scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest List of film score composers, film composers of all time. He received List of awards and nominations received by Ennio Morricone, numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven , two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion, Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize in 2010. His filmography includes more than 70 award-winning films, all of Sergio Leone's films since ''A Fistful of Dollars'', all of Giuseppe Tornatore's films since ''Cinema Paradiso'', Dario Argento's ''Animal Trilogy'', as well as ''The Battle of Algiers'' (1966), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
