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The Festival of the new voices of Castrocaro
Songs about emigration
The emigrant is one of the most widely-evoked figures in Italian song lyrics, in the moment of farewell as well as that of his return, when he is full of the hope for the future that awaits him or filled with nostalgia for the land he left behind (…). Every city in Italy, large or […]
ARRIVEDERCI ROMA in the world
Renato Rascel released Arrivederci Roma in September 1954, and the song was an immediate crowd-pleaser, also because it was part of that wave of tourist songs set in Italian places that were famous the world over (with some terms in English and French) typical of the 1950s. This characteristic quickly grabbed the attention of foreign […]
La dolce vita, night spots and high society
In Rome, it was primarily Cinecittà that dictated the rules, and the nightclubs became hangouts for actors, directors, singers, and the affluent in general. The clientele was often foreign and chose venues like the Brick Top, the club owned by Ada Smith (1894-1984), better known in Europe and the USA as Bricktop, for her brick-coloured […]
RAFFAELLA’S COVER
Raffaella Carrà’s recording career began in 1970, with the release of Ma che musica maestro, the theme for Canzonissima 1970, a television broadcast combined with the New Year’s Lottery which Carrà hosted with Corrado Mantoni. In fact, her first recording dates back to 1966. She was participating in the musical comedy Ciao Rudy, and recorded […]
Mina, the voice of the modern italian woman
The way Mina tackles this song [Il cielo in una stanza], this flow of melody and lyrics without the traditional anchor points, is truly extraordinary. All in all, she has a good experience behind her, having interpreted songs that were almost exemplary for their adherence to canonical formal schemes (Tintarella di luna is a chorus-bridge […]
FESTIVALS AND PROMOTION OF TOURISM IN THE 1950s
Sanremo and Naples, having realized the kind of popularity they were able to garner, immediately produced clones. From the mid-1950s, festival fever literally exploded. The festivals multiplied, on the initiative of entrepreneurs and local administrations seeking opportunities for visibility and promotion, not only in tourism, or enterprising entrepreneurs, specialized in organizing competitions and events: in […]
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The songs of Alberto Rabagliati
Quando canta Rabagliati Theme tune for the program of the same name launched on the radio in 1941, where Rabagliati presented six songs each time. La canzone del boscaiolo A piece with a slightly country flavour, 1941, accompanied by the Trio Lescano at their height and the orchestra of Pippo Barzizza. Ba ba baciami piccina […]
CHRISTMAS POP
The number of Christmas pop songs in Italy is ridiculously low compared to the numbers on the international scene, but for some years now – more and more frequently – we are witnessing a thriving targeted production, often packaged and sold with newspapers or weekly magazines, showing a still immature market that is beginning to […]
Parco Lambro 1976: end of a utopia
After a half-aborted experiment, dated May 1968 (Rome, Palazzetto dello Sport), Palermo began to host pop festivals in Italy starting in 1970, doing so for another two years. The fashion then spread, thanks to the great popularity of progressive rock, Italian and foreign, and the desire to find and experiment with new forms of bringing […]