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Studio Uno
''Studio Uno'' is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in March 1965 by Ri-Fi. All songs were performed during the Saturday TV show '' Studio Uno''. Thanks to such super hits as " Città vuota", " È l'uomo per me", " Un anno d'amore", " Un buco nella sabbia", "Io sono quel che sono" e "L'ultima occasione", the record reached the top of the Italian chart. Track listing Charts Weekly charts Monthly charts Year-end charts Cover versions During the years of her long career, Mina re-recorded most of the songs of this album. In 1965, she covered "Un anno d'amore" in other three languages: in Spanish ("Un año de amor" with lyrics written by Gaby Verlor), in Turkish ("Dön bana") and in Japanese ("Wakare"), plus a second Spanish version in 2007 (lyrics by Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (; born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and author. His films are distinguished by Melodrama (film genre), melodrama, irreverent humour, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Solo
Roberto Satti (born 18 March 1945), known professionally as Bobby Solo, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. Singing career In 1964, Solo participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song " Una lacrima sul viso" ("A Tear on your Face", written by " Lunero"), but affected by laryngitis, he sang with playback, which disqualified him as that was contrary to the festival regulations. The song, however, became a global hit. It was the first record to sell over one million copies in Italy, and global sales exceeded three million. It was awarded a gold disc. In the following year Solo won in the festival with the song " Se piangi, se ridi". He participated with the same song in the Eurovision Song Contest and finished in fifth place. Again in 1969 Solo participated in the Sanremo Music Festival, with the song " Zingara", together with Iva Zanicchi. His last participation in the festival was in 2003 (together with Little Tony), singing "Non si cresce mai". Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musica E Dischi
() was the oldest and longest-running music industry publication in Italy. In 1961, ''Billboard'' defined the publication as the "Italian record bible". History It was founded in October 1945 in Milan, Italy, on the initiative of the journalist and musicologist Aldo Mario De Luigi, a former record executive at La Voce Del Padrone-Columbia-Marconiphone (VCM, now EMI Italy). Originally, the magazine was published under the name ''Musica'' (''Dischi'' was added on the second edition) on a monthly basis. In the 1960s, started to issue a list of best-seller music recordings nationally. After the death of Aldo Mario in 1968, his son Mario De Luigi, already reviewer and editor of the magazine since 1958, became the director. In 1999, the official website was opened. On its 735th issue in December 2009, director Mario De Luigi announced that from March 2010 they would publish an online magazine and stop the publication of the physical magazine after 65 years. In June 2014, the mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mort Shuman
Mortimer Shuman (12 November 1938 – 2 November 1991) was an American singer, pianist and songwriter, best known as co-writer of many 1960s rock and roll hits, including " Viva Las Vegas". He also wrote and sang many songs in French, such as "Le Lac Majeur", "Papa-Tango-Charly", "Sha Mi Sha", "Un Été de Porcelaine", and "Brooklyn by the Sea" which became hits in France and several other European countries. Life and career Shuman was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, of Polish Jewish immigrants and went to Abraham Lincoln High School, subsequently studying music at the New York Conservatory. He became a fan of R&B music and after he met Doc Pomus the two teamed up to compose for Aldon Music at offices in New York City's Brill Building. Their songwriting collaboration saw Pomus write the lyrics and Shuman the melody, although occasionally each worked on both. Their compositions would be recorded by artists such as Dion, The Flamingos, Andy Williams, Bobby D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doc Pomus
Jerome Solon Felder (June 27, 1925 – March 14, 1991), known professionally as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1992, the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), and the Blues Hall of Fame (2012). Early life Jerome Solon Felder was born on June 27, 1925, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of British born Jewish immigrants. Having contracted polio as a boy, he was in an iron lung for a year, and walked with the aid of crutches. Later, due to post-polio syndrome exacerbated by an accident, Felder relied on a wheelchair. Pomus was homeschooled for much of elementary and junior high school. He had a high IQ, and excelled at the insult challenge among teens and young men, " playing the dozens". He also was facile at creating his own lyrics for blues songs of the day. He became a fan of the blues after hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Martelli
Augusto Martelli (15 March 1940 – 3 November 2014) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and television personality. Born in Genoa, the son of conductor and composer Giordano Bruno Martelli, Martelli is probably best known for the song ''Djamballà'', the theme song of the 1970 film '' Il dio serpente'', which reached the first position in the Italian charts. He is also well known for his romantic and professional relationship with pop singer Mina, with whom he collaborated as a composer and an arranger and with whom he co-founded the music label PDU. After having been conductor in a number of RAI variety shows, starting from late seventies Martelli was also host of a number of TV programs, mainly for Canale 5.Luca Cirillo, Maurizio Mansueti, "Incontro con Augusto Martelli", ''Il Giaguaro'', N° 7, Autumn 2001, Alessandro Casella Editore. He also composed songs and scores for a large number of Fininvest Finanziaria d'investimento Fininvest S.p.A., also known as Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and the piano, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. One of List of best-selling music artists, the most successful composers and performers in history, McCartney is known for his melodic approach to bass-playing, versatile and wide tenor vocal range and eclecticism in music, musical eclecticism, exploring genres ranging from traditional pop, pre-rock and roll pop to classical, ballads and electronica. His Lennon–McCartney, songwriting partnership with Lennon is the most successful in music history. Born in Liverpool, McCartney taught himself piano, guitar and songwriting as a teenager, having been influenced by his father, a jazz player, and rock and roll performers such as Little Richard and Buddy Holly. He began his career when he joined Lennon's skiffle group, the Quarrymen, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer-songwriter, musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's Lennon–McCartney, songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history. Born in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the Skiffle revival, skiffle craze as a teenager. In 1956, he formed the Quarrymen, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Lennon initially was the group's ''de facto'' leader, a role he gradually seemed to cede to McCartney, writing and co-writing songs with increasing innovation, including "Strawberry Fields Forever", which he later cited as his finest work with the band. Lennon soon expanded his work into other media by participating in numerous films, including ''How I Won the War'', and authoring ''In His Own Write'' and ''A Spaniard in the Works'', both collections of literary nonsense, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's For You
English auxiliary verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal auxiliary verbs and a few others. Although the auxiliary verbs of English are widely believed to lack inherent semantic meaning and instead to modify the meaning of the verbs they accompany, they are nowadays classed by linguists as auxiliary on the basis not of semantic but of grammatical properties: among these, that they invert with their subjects in interrogative main clauses (''Has John arrived?'') and are negated either by the simple addition of ''not'' (''He has not arrived'') or (with a very few exceptions) by negative inflection (''He hasn't arrived''). History of the concept When describing English, the adjective ''auxiliary'' was "formerly applied to any formative or subordinate elements of language, e.g. prefixes, prepositions." As applied to verbs, its conception was originally rather vague and varied significantly. Some historical examples The first English grammar, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Soffici
Pietro "Piero" Soffici (28 July 1920 – 4 May 2004) was an Italian composer, arranger and conductor. Life and career Born in Rovinj, at the time part of the Kingdom of Italy with the name Rovigno, Soffici graduated from the conservatory in violin, harmony and composition.Giannelli, Enzo (1990). "Soffici, Piero". Castaldo, Gino (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore. pp. 1598-9. After serving as bandleader in ballrooms and as member of several radio orchestras, in the 1950s he formed his own orchestra. Known for his compositional eclecticism, Soffici composed many hits, including Mina's " Stessa spiaggia, stesso mare" and " Un buco nella sabbia", Caterina Caselli's " Perdono" and "Cento Giorni", Adriano Celentano's "Pitagora". In 1960, he won the Zecchino d'Oro with the song "Caro Gesù Bambino", which was later covered by numerous artists including Frankie Avalon, Andrea Bocelli, Teddy Reno, Don Marino Barreto Jr. and Gloria Christian. He took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Hildebrand
Diane Hildebrand (born April 13, 1945) is an American pop singer-songwriter. She wrote for several musicians during the 1960s and 1970s, but is most notable for her work with Screen Gems Music Publishing, penning material for the band the Monkees. In 1969, Hildebrand recorded her debut studio album, ''Early Morning Blues and Greens''. She later released two additional albums under the name Joya Diane Skye. Biography Hildebrand was born in Roswell, New Mexico in 1945. She began a songwriting career at age 13 while living in São Paulo, Brazil. One of her earliest compositions, "I'm on My Way", was performed by Barbara Dane on an episode of ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' in 1963. The following year, Hildebrand penned the debut single, "He Walks Like a Man", for American country singer Jody Miller—a modest U.S. hit, reaching #66 on the Billboard Chart February 1964. The song was subsequently covered by French, Italian, and German artists. In the mid-1960s, Hildebrand became a staf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vito Pallavicini
Vito Pallavicini (22 April 1924 – 16 August 2007) was an Italian lyricist. Biography Born in Vigevano, Pallavicini started his career as a journalist, founding in 1950 the local weekly magazine ''L'informatore vigevanese''.Giannelli, Enzo. "Pallavicini, Vito". Castaldo, Gino (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 1262-4. He made his professional debut as a lyricist in 1959 co-writing with Pino Massara the song "Amorevole" for Nicola Arigliano, and shortly later "Ghiaccio bollente" for Tony Dallara.Enrico Deregibus. "Vito Pallavicini". ''Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana''. Giunti Editore, 2010. . He got his first major hit in 1961, with Mina's " Le mille bolle blu". Pallavicini is well-known for his long professional associations with composers Pino Donaggio, with whom he composed Donaggio's signature song " Io che non vivo (senza te)", and Paolo Conte, with whom he co-wrote among other songs the hits "Tripoli '66" for Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
