Franco Godi (born 10 June 1940) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and record producer. Born in

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, Godi grew up in

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where he started his musical activity as the member of a band. After working in a local radio station, in 1962 he composed his first

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for the Bertolli oil, and from then he became the most active composer in the field of commercials and Caroselli in Italy, as to be called "Mr. Jingle". Godi was also active as a film score composer, particularly in the field of animation where he had a long collaboration with

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, and also composed theme songs for a large number of television programs and series. He is the founder of the record label Best Sound, which produced some of the early hip hop Italian groups, including

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and

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Discography

Filmography

References

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