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Pensieri e parole
Pensieri e parole talks about a communication problem with a loved one. It is composed of many images that we can represent individually, trying to reduce the narrative unity to favour instead a perhaps more meaningful stylistic fragmentation. “Che ne sai di un bambino che rubava/e soltanto nel buio giocava” (What do you know about a child […]
Una lacrima sul viso
(Mogol-Bobby Solo) – Bobby Solo, 1964 They were a bit perplexed at Ricordi, and since nothing much was going on, after the second album they sent me to perform at “Ribalta per Sanremo”, an event that was held at the Teatro Lirico di Milano, which also featured Ricky Gianco, Remo Germani, Lilli Tombolato and others […]
Veronica
(Sandro Ciotti, Dario Fo, Enzo Jannacci) – Enzo Jannacci, 1964 Jannacci used to play in a milk bar in Milan, the Shanghai bar. When I heard him I was so impressed that I suggested he came to perform at the Grotte del Piccione, the most fashionable club in Rome, owned by my friend Piero Gabrielli, a […]
Una vita stupenda
1958 was the year of the first visit to Italy by an Italian-American singer who, alongside Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, championed for years the so-called “confidential” style, in the US first and then in the rest of the world: Perry Como. He was then at the peak of his career thanks to the very […]
Excerpt from Sergio Bernardini’s autobiography, Non ho mai perso La Bussola
Where I was (in the dining rooms, on the beaches, on the garden lawns for the six o’clock aperitifs and for the long card playing sessions) the economic boom you could literally touch it with your hands, sense it in the air. VIPs were a fixture. Angelo Moratti in the lead, followed by a court […]
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Ritornerai
(Bruno Lauzi) – Bruno Lauzi, 1963 On 3 August 1963 I am at Silverio Pisu’s house, in via Omboni 1, Milan. It’s early afternoon, and we’re about to leave on vacation. We are going to Albisola where he has a home. The suitcase is ready in front of the door, the guitar is on the […]
Viva la pappa col pomodoro
(Nino Rota-LIna Wertmüller) – Rita Pavone, 1965 I had to supervise, in the RCA studies, the realization of the soundtrack and the related LP for the RAI eight-episode series Il Giornalino Gian Burrasca, based on the book of the same name written in the early twentieth century by the Florentine Luigi Bertelli, aka Vamba. Filming […]
Nella vecchia fattoria
However, the truly big hit of 1949 was a song that really boosted our popularity. The director of the record label Cetra had asked us to record four songs written especially for children, to be included in a double album (a 78rpm, as they still were at the time) for Christmas. Tata and I immediately […]
Pugni chiusi
n the spring, in Mantua, I had recorded some ideas, inspired by the music I was listening to at the time on Radio Luxembourg. I had Demetrio listen to one of these in particular, accompanying my voice with the piano in the room reserved for Ricordi’s songwriters in Via Berchet. He advised me to change […]
Una donna per amico
Io tu noi tutti (I You Us Everyone) was rather homogeneous. The songs resembled each other quite a bit. On Una donna per amico on the other hand, there are different compositional moments. However, there’s something common to all the tracks, the fact of all being part of an expressive genre common to all the […]