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Overview

This album continues the joint soundtrack cycle with

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for Paolo Frajese's program ''Trent'anni della nostra storia'' (Thirty Years of Our History), dedicated to the history of the broadcaster. This time Mina covered songs originally released between 1950 (

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's "Buona sera") and 1969 (

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's "Acqua azzurra, acqua chiara"). Two singles were released in support of the album. The first, " Rose su rose", was released in early 1984 and became the opening theme for that year's

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. The song reached number sixteen on the singles chart. The B-side was the song "Ninna Nanna", written by Massimiliano Pani and Valentino Alfano, and was not released on any album until 1998. The second single, " Comincia tu", was released in October of the same year and became the thirty-fifth in the singles chart. Either "La nave" or the disco mix of "Brigitte Bardot" were used as a B-side. The album debuted at number twenty-one on the Italian chart and peaked at number two in its fourth week. In total, the album spent sixteen weeks on the chart. The album, in addition to Italy, was released in Germany and Switzerland. The two parts of the album were distributed both separately and in one edition. In 2001, it was remastered and released only as a double album.

Track listing

Volume 1

Volume 2

Personnel

* Mina – vocals, background vocals (A1, D2) * Victor Bach – arrangement (A1–B6), background vocals (A1), strings (A2, A5, B2) *

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– arrangement (C1, C3–C5), keyboards (C3, D3), piano (C1, C4) *

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– arrangement (C2, D1, D4), background vocals (D2) * Paolo Gianolio – arrangement (D2), background vocals (D2), bass guitar (A1, C1–C3, D2, D3), guitar (A1–A4, B1–B6, C1–C5, D1–D4), keyboards (C2, D2) * D. Cremonesi – background vocals (A1) * Mauro Balletti – background vocals (A1) * Giulia Fasolino – background vocals (A2–A4, B1–B4, B6) * J. Hilleven – background vocals (A2–A4, B1–B4, B6) * Lella Esposito – background vocals (A2–A4, B1–B4, B6, C3) * Moreno Ferrara – background vocals (A2–A4, B1–B4, B6) * Sam Trevino – background vocals (A2–A4, B1–B4, B6) * Naimy Hackett – background vocals (A2–A4, B–B4, B6) * Silvio Pozzoli – background vocals (A2–A4, B1–B4, B6, C3) * Adriano Pratesi – background vocals (A4, B3) *

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– background vocals (C3) * Stefano Anselmo – background vocals (A1) * Massimo Moriconi – bass guitar (A2–A5, B1–B6, D1, D4) * Gigi Cappellotto – bass guitar (C4, C5) * Ellade Bandini – drums (A2–A5, B1–B6) * Flaviano Cuffari – drums (C1, C3–C5, D2, D3) * Walter Scebran – drums (D1, D4) * Sergio Farina – guitar (A5) * Simonne Sporck – harp (A5) * Roberto Zanaboni – keyboards (D1, D4) * George Aghedo – percussion (C2) * Aldo Banfi – synthesizer (C1, C3–C5, D2, D3) * Piero Cairo – synthesizer (C3) * Nuccio Rinaldis – recording Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1984 albums Mina (Italian singer) albums 1980s Italian-language albums EMI Italiana albums