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Italian folk songs include ballads, lyrical songs, lullabies and children's songs, seasonal songs based around holidays such as Christmas, life-cycle songs that celebrate weddings, baptisms and other important events, dance songs, cattle calls and occupational songs, tied to professions such as fishermen, shepherds and soldiers.
According to a 1969 report from SEDRIM (from Società per l'Esercizio dei Diritti di Riproduzione Meccanica), then Italian mechanical rights society, Italy was a singles-market with songs accounting 85.8 percent of total record sales in the country. A "top hit" single in Italy at that time was grouped between 500,000 and 700,000 copies.
The film further includes Italian songs by Mina, Edoardo Bennato, Gianni Morandi, Rita Pavone and Quartetto Cetra, and excerpts from operas by Giacomo Puccini and Gioachino Rossini. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Japanese dub has a new ending theme titled "Shounen Jidai" ( 少年時代 , "Boyhood") by Yorushika .
List of number-one songs and albums Week Song Artist(s) Ref. Album Artist(s) Ref. 1 "Moneylove" Massimo Pericolo featuring Emis Killa [1]X2VR: Sfera Ebbasta [2]2 "Everyday" ...
On 15 September, Westenra appeared as a guest star on the Italian reality TV show for children Io Canto and sang "Whispers In A Dream" and "Cinema Paradiso: Profumo di Limone" with the show's 2010 winner, Benedetta Caretta. [23] [24] The BBC programme Songs of Praise broadcast "Whispers In A Dream" as performed by Westenra in Salisbury Cathedral.
The song has been recorded in a number of versions. The Italian version performed by Fran Jeffries appears in the film, but not on the soundtrack album.An instrumental that resembles the underscore of Jeffries' version is included on the soundtrack album, as is a group vocal with only vaguely related English lyrics (which can be heard in the film during the fancy-dress ball and costume party ...
"Renato" is an Italian version of the 1961 Spanish song "Renata" by Alberto Cortez, recorded in 1962 by Italian singer Mina. Adapted lyrics was written by Alberto Testa . The song was released as a single in April 1962, eventually reaching number four on the Italian chart and becoming one of the biggest hits of the summer. [ 3 ]
The song eventually won the Cantagiro festival and was a massive success, staying on the top of the Italian hit parade for a total of 17 weeks [1] and being awarded gold disc as it was certified as having sold over one million copies. [2] It also marked a turning point in Morandi's career, who since then embraced a more adult and romantic ...