''Alice'' (also known as ''Per Elisa'') is the fourth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1981 on

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. The album includes Alice's winning entry in the 1981 Sanremo Music Festival, "Per Elisa", and the ''Alice'' album was released under that title in certain territories, then also with alternative cover art. The track "Una notte speciale" was released as the follow-up single to "Per Elisa". An alternate version of "Una notte speciale" appears on the 1987 album '' Elisir''. A re-recorded version of "Per Elisa" was included in the 2000 career retrospective ''

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Track listing

;Side A #"Per Elisa" (

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, Giusto Pio, Alice) – 3:40 #"A Te..." (Alice) – 4:56 #"Non ti confondere amico" (Alice) – 4:25 #"Una notte speciale" (Alice,

, Giusto Pio) – 4:14 ;Side B #"Non devi aver paura" (Alice) – 3:42 #"Senza cornice" (Alice) – 5:30 #"Momenti d'ozio" (Alice, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) – 3:18 #"Tramonto urbano" (Alice) – 3:16

Personnel

* Alice – lead vocals * Walter Calloni – drums * Flaviano Cuffari – drums tracks A1, B1, B3 * Paolo Donnarumma – bass guitar * Alberto Radius – guitar * Filippo Destrieri – keyboard instruments, Fender Rhodes, synth * Salvatore Giumeno –

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* Franco Tangari –

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* Hugo Heredia – saxophone * Paola Orlandi – backing vocals track A4

Production

* Angelo Carrara – record producer *

– musical arranger * Giusto Pio – musical arranger * Enzo "Titti" Denna –

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* Recorded and mixed at Radius Studio * Luciano Tallarini –

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* Fulvio Ventura – photography * Francesco Messina –

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Charts

Weekly charts

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References

External links

* {{Authority control 1981 albums Alice (singer) albums EMI Records albums Italian-language albums