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The song was Amedeo Minghi's entry for the 33th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, where it was eliminated; its exclusion from the finals led the festival artistic director Gianni Ravera to publicly complain about the voting mechanism (which was eventually changed the following year) and to suggest the possible re-introduction of a recovery commission for high-quality eliminated songs (as ...
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. 0–9. 1954 in Italian music (1 P) 1955 in ...
US 1940s 1 – Jun 1950, US 1 for 5 weeks Jul 1950, Oscar in 1950, US BB 2 of 1950, POP 2 of 1950, DDD 4 of 1950, Italy 48 of 1951, RIAA 109, Acclaimed 1292 2: Patti Page: Tennessee Waltz: 1950: US: US 1940s 1 – Nov 1950, US 1 for 9 weeks Dec 1950, US BB 4 of 1950, 6,000,000 sold by 1967 [7] 3: Phil Harris: The Thing: 1950: US
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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.
The song was also recorded by Connie Francis in 1959 for her album Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites, with her hit single released in February 1960. Arranged and conducted by Tony Osborne, the Connie Francis version of the song was a number two hit in the UK, [9] and peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. [10]
In the mid-1970s he was briefly a member of the musical ensamble Pandemonium, with whom he recorded his song "L'immenso", which got several international covers and was his first real success. [1] Left the group, he released a new album in 1980 ( Minghi ) and started working as a producer. [ 1 ]
A subsequent Festival of Neapolitan Song on Italian state radio enjoyed some success in the 1950s but was eventually abandoned as well. The period since 1950 has produced such songs as Malafemmena by Totò, Maruzzella by Renato Carosone, Indifferentemente by Mario Trevi and Carmela by Sergio Bruni. Although separated by some decades from the ...