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Stay with me. Songs by Domenico Modugno

Doing a cover doesn't only mean choosing a song that an artist feels is particularly his. It also means making a tribute to the artist who originally performed (and in this case also wrote) that song, and the tributes that Domenico Modugno (1928-1994) received during his lifetime (and even after his death) are countless. The songs on this playlist date to between the end of the 1950s and the end of the 1960s, when Modugno was still a very strong presence on the Italian song scene, but his songs already qualified as classics and enjoyed great popularity, also international. And it’s no coincidence that as well as Nel blu, dipinto di blu (which the Americans immediately renamed Volare) even a song like Io drew attention overseas, becoming, with the title Ask Me, part of the repertoire of the rocker par excellence, Elvis Presley. Just as the Quartetto Cetra did a historic winning version of Musetto, a veritable musical sketch that became a model for so many other parodistic reinterpretations that the Quartet then had the opportunity to propose in its glittering career.