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L'allieva
''L'allieva'' is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 11 November 2005 by PDU. The albums pays homage to the songs of Frank Sinatra, by whom Mina has been greatly influenced. The album reached the fourth place in the Italian chart, and its sales exceeded the threshold of 130 thousand copies. The first 11 songs are accompanied by a small combo of jazz musicians, ending appropriately with "My Way", while the last 3 recordings are a sort of added bonus tracks, with orchestral strings arrangements by Gianni Ferrio. Critical reception The '' Rockol'' reviewer Gianni Sibilla stated that this is a beautiful record, perfect for this autumn-winter period, with warm, beautifully arranged songs. Claudio Milano of ' praised the album, but noted that this record should be listened to without the desire to resort to comparisons with the originals, given the huge discrepancy in the basic interpretative intentions, as if these were songs recorded for the first time. In 2018, Giorg ...
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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 ...
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Honorific nicknames in popular music, Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, most popular entertainers of the 20th century. Sinatra is among the List of best-selling music artists, world's best-selling music artists, with an estimated 150 million record sales globally. Born to Italian Americans, Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era and was influenced by the easy-listening vocal style of Bing Crosby. He joined the Harry James band as the vocalist in 1939 before finding success as a solo artist after signing with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "Bobby-soxer, bobby soxers". In 1946, Sinatra released his debut album, ''The Voice of Frank Sinatra''. He then signed with Capitol Records and released several albums wi ...
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Once I Loved
"Once I Loved" ("O Amor Em Paz") is a bossa nova and jazz standard song composed in 1960 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes.Severiano, Jairo, and Zuza Homem de Mello ''A canção no tempo: 85 anos de músicas brasileiras, vol. 2'', Editora 34, São Paulo, 1997. Words in English were later added by Ray Gilbert. In a few early cases, the song was also known as ("Love in Peace"), a translation into English of the original Portuguese title. The first recording was in 1961 by João Gilberto on his self-titled album ''João Gilberto'' (Brasil, Odeon 3202). Jobim recorded an instrumental version of the song in 1963 on his debut album, '' The Composer of Desafinado Plays''. In ''The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire'', jazz critic Ted Gioia credits Frank Sinatra and his version with Jobim on their joint album '' Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim'' for the popularity of the song. "Even during the height of the bossa nova craze, which peaked ar ...
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Bula Bula
''Bula Bula'' is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in 2005 by PDU and Sony Music. The album debuted at number one on the Italian albums chart, and its annual sales amounted to 130 thousand copies. Track listing Personnel * Mina – vocals * Massimiliano Pani – arrangement (1–7, 9), keyboards (1, 3, 9), backing vocals (2, 5–7, 10), programming (3, 7), strings (4), guitar (9) * Luca Meneghello – guitar (1–5, 7, 9–11), acoustic guitar (6) * Celeste Frigo – mixing (1, 8, 9, 10, 12) * Ugo Bongianni – piano (1), keyboards (5, 11, 12), Rhodes piano (9), arrangement (11), programming (11, 12) * Roberto Vernetti – programming (1, 2, 5, 9, 11) * Ignazio Morviducci – recording (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9–12), mixing (2–7) * Davide Pagano – recording (1–5, 7, 8, 10, 11) * Antonio Galbiati – backing vocals (2, 10) * Giulia Fasolino – backing vocals (2, 6, 10) * – bass guitar (2–5, 7, 10, 11) * – programming (2–4, 7, 9), keyboards (2–4, 7, ...
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Bau (album)
''Bau'' is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 26 November 2006 by PDU and distributed by Sony Music. The album was first released in a limited edition on vinyl in 2023. Track listing Musicians ;Arrangements * Ugo Bongianni - arrangements (tracks 3, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 * Nicolò Fragile - arrangements (tracks 1) * Massimiliano Pani - arrangements tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9) ;Musicians * Mina - vocals * Ugo Bongianni - keyboards * Danilo Rea - piano * Faso, Lorenzo Poli - bass * Lele Melotti - percussion * Vincenzo Bramanti, Luca Meneghello - guitar * Gabriele Comeglio - aerophone arrangements, flutes and clarinet * Emilio Soana, Pippo Colucci, Umberto Mercandalli - trumpet * Mauro Parodi, Angelo Rolando - trombones * Paolo Barbieri, Gabriele Comeglio - saxophone * Emilio Soana - flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. ...
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Eddie Snyder
Edward Abraham Snyder (February 22, 1919 – March 10, 2011) was an American composer and songwriter. Snyder is credited with co-writing the English language lyrics and music for Frank Sinatra's 1966 hit, "Strangers in the Night". Snyder was born in New York City on February 22, 1919. He studied piano at the Juilliard School before taking a job as a songwriter at the Brill Building The Brill Building is an office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and farther uptown from the historic musical Tin Pan Alley neighborhood. The Brill Building hous .... Eddie Snyder died on March 10, 2011, in Lakeland, Florida, at the age of 92. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Snyder, Eddie 1919 births 2011 deaths American composers American male composers American male songwriters Golden Globe Award–winning musicians Grammy Award winners Juilliard School alumni Musicians from New York City Songwriters from ...
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Strangers In The Night
"Strangers in the Night" is a song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Kaempfert originally used it under the title "Beddy Bye" as part of the instrumental score for the movie ''A Man Could Get Killed.'' The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra. Sinatra's recording of the song reached No. 1 on both the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart, and it was also simultaneously a No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. The success of the song led to the release of the album '' Strangers in the Night'' which included the title song. This release became Sinatra's most commercially successful album. Sinatra's recording won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist for Ernie Freeman at the Grammy Awards of 1967. Origin The song was originally an instrumental theme t ...
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Lorenz Hart
Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was an American lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include "Blue Moon"; " The Lady Is a Tramp"; "Manhattan"; " Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"; and " My Funny Valentine". Life and career Hart was born in Harlem, New York City, the elder of two sons, to Jewish immigrant parents, Max M. and Frieda (Isenberg) Hart, of German background. Through his mother, he was a great-grandnephew of the German poet Heinrich Heine. His father, a business promoter, sent Hart and his brother to private schools. (His brother, Teddy Hart, also went into theatre and became a musical comedy star. Teddy Hart's wife, Dorothy Hart, wrote a biography of Lorenz Hart.) Hart received his early education from Columbia Grammar School and entered Columbia College in 1913, before switching to Columbia University School of Journalism, where he attended for two years.
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Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American Musical composition, composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway theatre, Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to his credit, Rodgers was one of the best-known American composers of the 20th century, and his compositions had a significant influence on popular music. Rodgers is known for his songwriting partnerships, first with lyricist Lorenz Hart and then with Oscar Hammerstein II. With Hart he wrote musicals throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including ''Pal Joey (musical), Pal Joey'', ''A Connecticut Yankee (musical), A Connecticut Yankee'', ''On Your Toes'' and ''Babes in Arms.'' With Hammerstein he wrote musicals through the 1940s and 1950s, such as ''Oklahoma!'', ''Flower Drum Song'', ''Carousel (musical), Carousel'', ''South Pacific (musical), South Pacific'', ''The King and I'', and ''The Sound of Music''. His collaborations with Hammerstein, in particular, are celebr ...
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Blue Moon (1934 Song)
A blue moon refers either to the presence of a second full moon in a calendar month, to the third full moon in a season containing four, or to a moon that appears blue due to atmospheric effects. The Calendrical_calculation, calendrical meaning of "blue moon" is unconnected to the other meanings. It is often referred to as “traditional”, but since no occurrences are known prior to 1937 it is better described as an invented tradition or “modern American folklore”. The practice of designating the second full moon in a month as "blue" originated with amateur astronomer James Hugh Pruett in 1946. It does not come from Full_moon#Native_American, Native American lunar tradition, as is sometimes supposed. The moon – not necessarily full – can sometimes appear blue due to atmospheric emissions from large forest fires or volcanoes, though the phenomenon is rare and unpredictable (hence the saying “once in a blue moon”). A calendrical blue moon (by Pruett's definition) is ...
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Earl K
Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of ''earl'' never developed; instead, ''countess'' is used. The title originates in the Old English word , meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Scandinavian form '' jarl''. After the Norman Conquest, it became the equivalent of the continental count. In Scotland, it assimilated the concept of mormaer. Since the 1960s, earldoms have typically been created only for members of the royal family. The last non-royal earldom, Earl of Stockton, was created in 1984 for Harold Macmillan, prime minister from 1957 to 1963. Alternative names for the rank equivalent to "earl" or "count" in the nobility structure are used in other countries, such as the '' hakushaku'' (伯爵) of the post-restoration Japanese Imperial era. Etymology In the 7th century, the common Old English terms ...
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