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Sabato Sera – Studio Uno '67
''Sabato sera – Studio Uno '67'' is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, issued in 1967. Overview The songs from this album were originally recorded by Mina to participate in the new television program ''Sabato sera'', which replaced the program '' Studio Uno''. Mina took part in the program as a presenter. Previously, the singer has already released albums with material from the ''Studio Uno'' programs. The album consists entirely of songs in Italian. Despite the fact that the previous album, '' Mina 2'', was released using a new technology with stereo sound, this album has a mono sound. The album was released in May 1967, when the show ''Sabato sera'' was already airing on Rai. This was the singer's last studio album released on the Ri-Fi label, the next albums will be released on her own label, PDU. The record reached the first position in the Italian chart. An export version of the album was also prepared for release in Latin America, the title was shortened (to ''Sabat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina (Italian Singer)
Mina Anna Mazzini (born 25 March 1940) or Mina Anna Quaini (for the Swiss civil registry), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an Feminism, emancipated woman. In performance, Mina combined several modern styles with traditional Italian melodies and swing music, which made her the most versatile pop singer in Music of Italy, Italian music. With over 150 million records sold worldwide, she is List of estimated best-selling Italian music artists, the best-selling Italian musical artist, as well as one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists of all time. Mina dominated the country's charts for 15 years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity. She has scored Mina discography, 79 albums and 71 singles on the Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Testa (lyricist)
Alberto Testa (11 April 1927 – 19 October 2009) was a Brazilian-born Italian composer, lyricist, singer, and writer for television. Born at Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, he was known primarily for his work as a lyricist. His words were set by such songwriters as Tony Renis (such as "Quando, quando, quando" and " Grande grande grande") and Memo Remigi. Shirley Bassey and Mina are among the singers who performed his songs. He also wrote songs for such artists as Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, and Celine Dion (such as "The Prayer" and " I Hate You Then I Love You"). "The Prayer", performed in 1998 by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli — which Testa co-wrote with David Foster, Tony Renis, and Carole Bayer Sager — won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 56th Golden Globe Awards. He died in Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Italian-language Albums
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1967 Albums
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Musica E Dischi
() was the oldest and longest-running music industry publication in Italy. In 1961, ''Billboard'' defined the publication as the "Italian record bible". History It was founded in October 1945 in Milan, Italy, on the initiative of the journalist and musicologist Aldo Mario De Luigi, a former record executive at La Voce Del Padrone-Columbia-Marconiphone (VCM, now EMI Italy). Originally, the magazine was published under the name ''Musica'' (''Dischi'' was added on the second edition) on a monthly basis. In the 1960s, started to issue a list of best-seller music recordings nationally. After the death of Aldo Mario in 1968, his son Mario De Luigi, already reviewer and editor of the magazine since 1958, became the director. In 1999, the official website was opened. On its 735th issue in December 2009, director Mario De Luigi announced that from March 2010 they would publish an online magazine and stop the publication of the physical magazine after 65 years. In June 2014, the mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Martelli
Augusto Martelli (15 March 1940 – 3 November 2014) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and television personality. Born in Genoa, the son of conductor and composer Giordano Bruno Martelli, Martelli is probably best known for the song ''Djamballà'', the theme song of the 1970 film '' Il dio serpente'', which reached the first position in the Italian charts. He is also well known for his romantic and professional relationship with pop singer Mina, with whom he collaborated as a composer and an arranger and with whom he co-founded the music label PDU. After having been conductor in a number of RAI variety shows, starting from late seventies Martelli was also host of a number of TV programs, mainly for Canale 5.Luca Cirillo, Maurizio Mansueti, "Incontro con Augusto Martelli", ''Il Giaguaro'', N° 7, Autumn 2001, Alessandro Casella Editore. He also composed songs and scores for a large number of Fininvest Finanziaria d'investimento Fininvest S.p.A., also known as Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detto Mariano
Detto Mariano (27 July 1937 – 25 March 2020) was an Italian composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist, record producer and music publisher. Life and career Born Mariano Detto in Monte Urano, Mariano started his career in 1958 but was launched by entering Adriano Celentano's Clan Celentano, becoming keyboardist in his accompanying group " I Ribelli", sporadic lyricist and official arranger of all the songs of the Clan between 1962 and 1967. He also collaborated with Lucio Battisti, Mina, Milva, Equipe 84. Later he focused on composing numerous film soundtracks, especially comedy films. Death On 25 March 2020, Mariano died of COVID-19 at the age of 82. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Backy
Don Backy (born Aldo Caponi on 21 August 1939) is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor. Life and career Born in Santa Croce sull'Arno, Caponi spent his early years in Castellammare di Stabia before returning to his hometown in 1955.Bassignano, Ernesto; Lipari Felice (1990). "Don Backy". Castaldo, Gino (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore. pp.575-6. In the late 1950s, particularly after watching the film ''Rock Around the Clock'', he became passionate of rock and roll and decided to pursue a musical career, founding the rock band Kiss. After self-producing several singles, mainly consisting of cover versions of American rock songs, in 1961 he started a professional career with the stage name Agaton. Thanks to the song "La storia di Frankie Ballan", inspired by American folk singers, Caponi attracted the interest of Adriano Celentano's record label Clan Celentano, that put him under contract. Adopted the stage name Don Backy, he soon became a prom ... [...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] |
Carlo Alberto Rossi
Carlo Alberto Rossi (30 August 1921 – 12 April 2010) was an Italian composer and record producer. Life and career Born in Rimini, when he was 8 years old Rossi started performing as a child actor and singer in operettas. Antonio Virgilio Savona; Michele Lo Straniero (1990). "Rossi, Carlo Alberto". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore. pp. 1050. In 1936, he moved with his family in Milan, where he studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory and formed a vocal ensamble, I Barboni. In 1939, he made his professional debut as a songwriter with "Tango di Manuelita". During World War II, he served as an official in the infantry, also composing some military anthems and a musical comedy. After the war, Rossi began a full-time career as a composer; among his early hits were Natalino Otto's “Conosci mia cugina” and “Non ho più pace”, and Lidia Martorana's "Amore baciami", which success revamped in the early 1960s thanks to a Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Calabrese
Giorgio Calabrese (28 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was an Italian songwriter and frequent collaborator with French Popular music, pop music star Charles Aznavour. Calabrese wrote the original Italian lyrics for the popular song "Softly, as I Leave You (song), Softly, as I Leave You", and the Italian version of Aznavour's famous song, "She (Charles Aznavour song), She", titled "Lei". He also wrote the Italian lyrics for the song, "E se domani", composed by Carlo Alberto Rossi and recorded by Mina (Italian singer), Mina. It was entered in the Sanremo Music Festival 1964, 1964 Sanremo Music Festival. Retrieved December 13, 2013 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Calabrese, Giorgio Italian male songwriters Italian songwriters 1929 births 2016 deaths ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Herman
Gerald Sheldon Herman (July 10, 1931December 26, 2019) was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre. One of the most commercially successful Broadway songwriters of his time, Herman was the composer and lyricist for a number of hit musicals, starting in the 1960s, that were characterized by an upbeat and optimistic outlook and what Herman called "the simple, hummable showtune". His shows include '' Hello, Dolly!'' (1964), at one time the longest-running musical in Broadway history, which also produced the hit title song for Louis Armstrong; ''Mame'' (1966), a vehicle for Angela Lansbury; and '' La Cage aux Folles'' (1984), the first hit Broadway musical about a gay couple. In 2009, Herman received the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. He was a recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors. Early life Herman was born in Manhattan and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, the only child of musically inclined, middle-class Jewish par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
