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Sanremo Music Festival 1974
The Sanremo Music Festival 1974 (), officially the 24th Italian Song Festival (), was the 24th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 7 and 9 March 1974, and broadcast by (RAI). The show was presented by Corrado, assisted by Gabriella Farinon. Gianni Ravera, Vittorio Salvetti and Elio Gigante served as artistic directors. The final night was broadcast by Programma Nazionale, while the first two nights were broadcast live only by radio. The winner of the festival was Iva Zanicchi with the song "Ciao cara come stai?". Participants and results Broadcasts Local broadcast All shows were broadcast on Secondo Programma (radio). The semi-finals was broadcast on Secondo Programma (radio) at 21:10 CET and on Secondo Programma (television) at 21:15 CET. The final was broadcast on Programma Nazionale and on Secondo Programma at 21:00 CET. International broadcasts Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corrado Mantoni
Corrado Mantoni (2 August 1924 – 8 June 1999), known simply as Corrado, was an Italian television and radio presenter, producer, and television writer. Biography He was born in Rome, where he followed classic studies and in jurisprudence; before finishing university studies he started to work as radio speaker with EIAR, predecessor of RAI, Italian State Television. He was the first to announce to the Italian public events such as the end of World War II, the birth of the Italian Republic or the death of Trilussa. He also worked as dubber for foreign actors including Jerry Lewis. In 1949, he was chosen by RAI as their first TV host for the Italian first experimental TV broadcasting. In the 1950s he was the foremost radio host in the country, and also took part in numerous movies as himself. Corrado began to work for TV in the 1960s as the host of popular shows such as '' Canzonissima'', '' Miss Italia'', the Sanremo Festival (1974) and '' Domenica In'', which he inaugurated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilda Giuliani
Gilda Giuliani (born 19 June 1954) is an Italian singer, mainly successful in the 1970s. Life and career Born in Termoli, Campobasso, Italy, after some experiences as a chorist in 1972 Giuliani won "Due voci per Sanremo", a contest organized by ''TV Sorrisi e Canzoni'' which got her the chance to compete at the 23rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.Enzo Giannelli. "Gilda Giuliani". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. Her song "Serena" was a hit and launched her career, with her vocal style being compared to Mireille Mathieu's and receiving large critical acclaim. In December the same year, she also competed at the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, winning both the Grand Prix and the Most Outstanding Performance Award with the song "Parigi a Volte Cosa Fa". From the mid-1970s she slowed her activities, focusing her career on international appearances. After a period of silence, in the 1990s Giuliani was a regular in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Baglioni
Claudio Baglioni (; born 16 May 1951) is an Italian Pop music, pop singer-songwriter and musician. His career has been going on for over 50 years. Considered one of the most successful pop rock singer-songwriters in the history of Italian music, he has sold over 60 million records, among which ''Questo piccolo grande amore'' from 1972 stands out, of which the song of the same name was awarded «song of the century», ''Strada facendo'' from 1981, one of the albums the artist's most successful album and ''La vita è adesso'' from 1985 which is the best-selling album of all time in Italy. In the 90s he experiments world music with the discs of the ''time trilogy'', which began with ''Oltre (album), Oltre'' (1990) considered his masterpiece, continued with one of the best-selling albums ever in Italy ''Io sono qui'' (1995) and ended with ''Viaggiatore sulla coda del tempo'' (1999). In 2006 he composed the anthem of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Also an innovator in the field of l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Nazzaro
Giovanni "Gianni" Nazzaro (; 27 October 1948 – 27 July 2021) was an Italian singer and actor. Early life and career Nazzaro was born in Naples, the second of four children (two males and two females) born to vaudeville actor and gossip columnist Erminio Nazzaro. He started his career with the stage name of Buddy, recording 59 singles, mainly cover songs, between 1965 and 1968. In 1968, Nazzaro started to perform with his real name and he took part at the music contest ''Un disco per l'estate'' with the song "Solo noi". In 1970, he won the Festival di Napoli with the song "Me chiamme ammore". After a series of successful hits, in the 1980s Nazzaro gradually slowed his musical production, focusing with some success in stage musicals. Personal life and death In the early 1970s, Nazzaro married Nada Ovcina. They had two children, Junior (born 1973) and Giorgia (born 1976). Nazzaro and Ovcina eventually divorced, but after years of estrangement, they reestablished their relatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouth & MacNeal
Mouth and MacNeal were a Dutch pop duo that enjoyed commercial success in the 1970s. Their recording of " How Do You Do" in 1972 topped the Dutch chart and became a US top ten hit and number 2 in Canada. They represented the Netherlands at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing third with the song " I See a Star", which went on to become a UK top ten hit. Career They were formed in 1971 when record producer Hans van Hemert brought together Big Mouth (born Willem Duyn) and Maggie MacNeal (born Sjoukje van't Spijker). Big Mouth had previously sung in a number of 1960s bands, including Speedway. MacNeal had released one solo single before teaming up with Big Mouth, a cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", also produced by van Hemert. The duo released their first single, "Hey You Love", which reached #5 in the Dutch Top 40, while the next two singles " How Do You Do" and "Hello-A" both reached #1 in the Netherlands. In 1972, "How Do You Do" reached th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Pintucci
Piero Pintucci (born 8 January 1943) is an Italian composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. Life and career Born in Fiesole, the son of two musicians, Pintucci studied piano at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence.Ernesto Bassignano. "Pintucci, Piero". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. p. 1346. Put under contract as an arranger by RCA, he got his first success arranging Gianni Morandi's single " C'era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones".Enrico Deregibus. "Piero Pintucci". ''Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana''. Giunti Editore, 2010. p. 368. . Starting from the late 1960s,, he was also active as a composer, collaborating among others with Mia Martini, Gabriella Ferri, Patty Pravo and Nicola Di Bari, for whom he composed the Sanremo Music Festival 1972 winning song " I giorni dell'arcobaleno". In the mid-1970s, Pintucci started a long collaboration as producer, composer and arrang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Mattone
Claudio Mattone (born 28 February 1943) is an Italian composer, lyricist and music producer. Born in Santa Maria a Vico, Caserta, Mattone approached music at young age, as a jazz pianist. After leaving the university he moved to Rome, where he debuted in 1968 as a singer-songwriter with the song "E' sera", that premiered without any success at Cantagiro '68. Focusing on composition, between late sixties and early eighties he successfully teamed with the lyricist Franco Migliacci and signed several hits, contributing to launch the careers of Nada and Eduardo De Crescenzo; also working as music producer and as lyricist of his songs, in nineties Mattone launched the careers of Neri per caso and Syria, that respectively won the 1994 and 1995 editions of the Sanremo Music Festival in the "giovani" category. In 1990 Mattone won a David di Donatello and a Nastro d'Argento for the soundtrack of the 1989 film '' Scugnizzi''. His earlier scores had included ' (1974), '' Così parlò ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Migliacci
Francesco "Franco" Migliacci (; 28 October 1930 – 15 September 2023) was an Italian lyricist, producer, and actor. Biography Migliacci studied in Florence where his family had settled, here he entered in a competition for young players, in which he won a stay of three days to Cinecittà and a modest role in a film by Nino Taranto. After this, he moved to Rome and the world of cinema where he worked in small parts in about 18 films. In 1958, with Domenico Modugno, Migliacci co-authored the song "", also known as "", which has become one of the most well-known Italian songs in the world. While the words of the title, "in the blue, painted blue," seem to make no sense, they actually do when one understands the inspiration for the song came out of a wine fueled vision of Franco's combining his memory of two Marc Chagall paintings and himself painted blue with the ability to fly. Afterward, he worked in drama series for television and several radio plays. He was then the ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Di Bari
Nicola Di Bari (born 29 September 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor. He is considered one of the "sacred monsters" of Italian pop music. Life and career Born in Zapponeta, Apulia, Di Bari was the youngest of ten children from a farming family.''B & N'', Volume 32, Edizioni 7–12. Società Gestione Editoriali, 1971. p. 90. He gave up his accountancy studies to work in Rome, and after a short stay in Rome he moved to Milan. In 1962, in Cologno Monzese, he won a song contest with a song of which he was also the author, "Piano pianino". In 1964 he achieved his first commercial success with the song "Amore ritorna a casa". Between 1965 and 1967 he entered the competition at three editions of the Sanremo Music Festival, while coupled with Gene Pitney. In 1970 Di Bari obtained even greater commercial and critical success with the song " La prima cosa bella", which ranked second at the Sanremo Music Festival and first on the Italian hit charts. In 1971 he won the Sanr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Charlots
Les Charlots, known as The Crazy Boys in the English-speaking world, was a group of French musicians, singers, comedians and film actors, who were popular in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. The group was active first from 1965 to 1966 as ''"Les Problèmes"'', under which name they made an album with the French singer Antoine. They renamed themselves ''Les Charlots'' and remained active from 1966 to 1997, then again briefly from 2008 to 2011 (as a duo). ''Charlots'' is slang for ''"clowns" or "idiots"'' rather than being a direct reference to Charlie Chaplin, who was generally called Charlot in France. Their light-hearted comedy style was influenced by the style of popular Italian group Brutos and by the anarchist humor of the Marx Brothers. The five members were Gérard Rinaldi (vocals, saxophone, accordion), Jean Sarrus (bass, backing vocals), Gérard Filippelli, a.k.a. "Phil" (guitar, backing vocals), Luis Rego (rhythm guitar, piano, backing vocals) and Jean-Guy Fechne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Albertelli
Luigi Albertelli (21 June 1934 – 19 February 2021) was an Italian songwriter and television author. Biography Born in , , Albertelli debuted as a lyricist in the second half of the 1960s and got his first success in 1969 with the song " Zingara", which won[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Soffici
Roberto Soffici (born 29 October 1946) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter, composer and lyricist. Background Born in Pula, the son of composer and conductor Piero, Soffici enrolled at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, graduating in clarinet, harmony and composition. In the 1970s he started a productive career as a composer, writing songs for Mina, Equipe 84, Nomadi and Ornella Vanoni, among others. From the second half of the seventies he has been also active as a singer-songwriter; his main success was the 1980 song "Io ti voglio tanto bene", which peaked at sixth place at the Italian hit parade. References External links *Roberto Sofficiat Discogs Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''T ... * {{DEFAULTSORT:Soffici, Roberto 1946 births 20th-century I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
