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Musicarelli
The ''musicarello'' (; : ''musicarelli'') is a film subgenre which emerged in Italy and which is characterised by the presence in main roles of young singers, already famous among their peers, and their new record album. In the films there are almost always tender and chaste love stories accompanied by the desire to have fun and dance without thoughts. ''Musicarelli'' reflect the desire and need for emancipation of young Italians, highlighting some generational frictions. The genre began in the late 1950s, and had its peak of production in the 1960s. Name According to critics, the name ''musicarello'' is a reference to the successful TV series ''Carosello''. In particular, the name ''musicarello'' combines the words ' ("music") and ''Carosello'': in fact, the singers who were the protagonists of the ''musicarelli'', thanks to their notoriety, often appeared in many episodes of TV series ''Carosello''. Background The genre began in the late 1950s, and had its peak of producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mi Vedrai Tornare
''Mi vedrai tornare'' (''You will see me back'') is a 1966 Italy, Italian musicarello, musical romantic comedy film directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti. The title is a reference to the Gianni Morandi's eponymous song. Plot Cast * Gianni Morandi: Gianni Aleardi * Elisabetta Wu: Princess Liù Toyo * Lelio Luttazzi: Marco Aleardi * Enrico Viarisio: Admiral Aleardi * Xenia Valderi: Maria Aleardi * Enzo Cerusico: Lt. Saro Spampinato * Nino Taranto: Spampinato * Raimondo Vianello: Tommaso * Sandra Mondaini: Virginia * Pietro De Vico: The Waiter * Giuseppe Porelli: The Duke * Loretta Goggi: Alice References External links * 1966 films Musicarelli 1966 musical comedy films Films directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti Films scored by Ennio Morricone Films with screenplays by Giovanni Grimaldi 1960s Italian-language films 1960s Italian films {{musical-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altissima Pressione
''Altissima pressione'' () is a 1965 Italian musicarello comedy film directed by Enzo Trapani. Cast * Dino as Roberto *Gianni Morandi * Rosemary Dexter as Serenella * Fabrizio Capucci *Lucio Dalla * Nicola Di Bari * Micaela Esdra as Lia * Lilly Bistrattin as Gianna * Anna Maria Checchi as Laura * Léa Nanni as Daniela * Maria Grazia Spina as Presentatrice * Gianluca Amadio as Sandro * Mauro Bronchi as Fausto * Roberto Palmieri as Gigi * Mimmo Poli as Il salumiere *Françoise Hardy as herself Plot A young and penniless songwriter named Roberto convinces a friend's father to invest into a new club. As this is done, the Caciotta Club gets created. Critics The film got 4,5/10 on IMDb, and per Google Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ..., the film was liked by 60% o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Ragazzi Del Juke-Box
''Ragazzi del Juke-Box'' (a.k.a. ''Juke-Box Kids'') is a 1959 Italian " musicarello" film directed (and co-written) by Lucio Fulci and starring Mario Carotenuto, Elke Sommer and Anthony Steffen. Lucio Fulci has a cameo in the film as a festival organizer. More than for the subject and the script, it deserves to be considered for the cast comprising some of the greatest characters of Italian pop music at the time of the screamers. The film sees the first film success of Adriano Celentano (who the previous year had made a first appearance in I frenetici) and includes for example the version of the band I Campioni of the song considered the first Italian rock'n roll, Ciao ti dirò del 1958 with text by Giorgio Calabrese and music by Gian Franco Reverberi already interpreted by Giorgio Gaber and then by Ricky Gianco. Plot Sir Cesari (Mario Carotenuto) runs a record company that promotes the classical music he loves. But when he goes to prison, his attractive young daughter Giulia ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Ragazzi Del Juke-box Curtis 2
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''ies''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the "long I" sound, pronounced . In most other languages, its name matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ettore Maria Fizzarotti
Ettore Maria Fizzarotti (3 January 1916 – 10 September 1985) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Naples, the son of the director Armando, he debuted as assistant director in the films of his father, and later collaborated with, among others, Vittorio Cottafavi and Raffaello Matarazzo. He made his directorial debut in 1964, with ''In ginocchio da te'', a '' musicarello'' with Gianni Morandi which was panned by critics but which got a large commercial success. Fizzarotti then directed several films of the same genre, starring some of the most important Italian singers of the time.Renato Venturelli, ''Nessuno ci può giudicare: il lungo viaggio del cinema musicale italiano'', Fahrenheit 451, 1998. . His career also include the spaghetti Western '' I'll Sell My Skin Dearly'' and '' Sgarro alla camorra'', the first ''sceneggiata'' film, which marked the film debut of Mario Merola. Selected filmography * '' Naples Is Always Naples'' (1954) * ''In ginocchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He is dubbed ''Il Molleggiato'' ('the springy one') because of his energetic dancing. Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and critical success. With around 150 million records sold worldwide, he is List of estimated best-selling Italian music artists, the second best-selling Italian musical artist. Often credited as the author of both the music and lyrics of his songs, according to his wife Claudia Mori, some were written in collaboration with others. Due to his prolific career, both in Italy and abroad, he is considered one of the pillars of Music of Italy, Italian music. Celentano is recognized for being particularly perceptive of changes in the music business and is credited for having introduced rock and roll to Italy. As an actor, Celentano has appeared in 39 films, mostly comedies. Early life Celentano was born on 6 January 1938 in Milan, Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photo Comics
Photo comics are a form of sequential storytelling using photographs rather than illustrations for the images, along with the usual comics conventions of narrative text and word balloons containing dialogue. They are sometimes referred to in English as fumetti, photonovels, photoromances, and similar terms. The photographs may be of real people in staged scenes, or posed dolls and other toys on sets. Although far less common than illustrated comics, photo comics have filled certain niches in various places and times. For example, they have been used to adapt popular film and television works into print, tell original melodramas, and provide medical education. Photo comics have been popular at times in Italy and Latin America, and to a lesser extent in English-speaking countries. Terminology The terminology used to describe photo comics is somewhat inconsistent and idiosyncratic. ''Fumetti'' is an Italian word (literally "little puffs of smoke", in reference to word balloons) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Vivarelli
Piero Vivarelli (26 February 1927 – 7 September 2010) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and lyricist. Vivarelli was born in Siena. After his father's death in 1942 at the hands of Yugoslav Partisans, Vivarelli joined the Republic of Salò as a young volunteer of the Decima Flottiglia MAS and for a short time was a member of the Italian Social Movement.Giuliana Rotondi. "Trapassati alla storia: Piero Vivarelli". ''Focus Storia'' n. 49. November 2010. p. 26. Later, from 1949 through the 1990s, he was a member of the Italian Communist Party, and was also the only Italian to receive the Communist Party of Cuba's membership card from Fidel Castro. Mainly active in genre films, he is regarded as a key figure in the '' musicarello'' genre. He was also active as a lyricist of pop songs such as " 24.000 baci", and several hits popularized by Adriano Celentano Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Pavone
Rita Ori Filomena Merk-Pavone (, ; born August 23, 1945) is an Italian-Swiss pop singer, actress and showgirl, who enjoyed success through the 1960s. Known as "the Mosquito of Turin" (), she was also nicknamed "Carrot Hair" () because of the red color of her hair. Selling more than 50 million records worldwide and recording in seven different languages, she is also one of eight Italian pop singers to have ever entered the UK charts. Singing career She was born in Turin, Italy. In 1962 she participated in, and won, the first Festival degli Sconosciuti ("Festival of the Unknown"), a song competition for amateur artists. Her self-titled 1963 album, led by the hit single " La partita di pallone" ("The Soccer Game") made her a national star at 17, and international attention soon followed. "La partita di pallone" sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. Her recording of ("Heart") also sold a million copies in 1963 and spent nine weeks at number one in Italy. Pavon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Morandi
Gian Luigi "Gianni" Morandi (; born 11 December 1944) is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer. It is estimated that Morandi has sold about 50 million recordings. Early life Born in Monghidoro, Emilia-Romagna, the son of a cobbler, Morandi interrupted his studies after primary school to work and support the poor economic conditions of his family. While working in a cinema as a candy vendor he began performing as a singer between films. At 14 years old he entered the Scaglioni Orchestra, with whom he made his first tour in north Italy. Career 1960s After winning a music festival for newcomers in Bellaria – Igea Marina, in 1962 Morandi made an audition for RCA Italiana, and while his performance left dubious a large part of the commission he was put under contract for the insistence of Franco Migliacci, who became its producer and main author for the first part of his career. The same year Morandi made his record debut with "Andavo a 100 all'ora" and his television d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Tony (singer)
Antonio Ciacci (9 February 1941 – 27 May 2013), better known as Little Tony, was a Sammarinese singer and actor, who achieved success in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as the lead singer of Little Tony & His Brothers, before returning to Italy where he continued a successful career as a singer and film actor. Life and career Little Tony was born in Tivoli, Italy, but was a citizen of San Marino, where his parents were born, and never applied for Italian citizenship. He formed a rock and roll group with his two brothers, Alberto and Enrico, in 1957, naming himself Little Tony in emulation of Little Richard. The following year, the group were signed by Durium Records, who released a series of covers of American rock and roll songs by them in Italy. In 1959, the Italian singer Marino Marini, when in London, recommended the group to TV pop show producer Jack Good. Good visited Italy to meet the group, was impressed, and signed them up to appear in his British TV sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
