1944-1963: THE ITALIAN MUSIC COMPLEX, their story through pictures
(Maiotti Publisher)
In my wanderings on the net I often have seen strong demand for rock'n'roll Italian, on blogs or abroad, I myself had started a blog that would contain these things, but then, a little 'for inconstancy, a bit' because after you find your stuff somewhere else without a thank you from those who have the frigates (maybe even with demand offerings for signing up for a mailing list), the more sincerely because it takes time on their hands, I left ' adventure. And I opened another, which I leave open for now, while I get a new inspiration that could lead a discussion on an ongoing basis. More often I have wondered what is the reason why the record companies not release their back catalog from time to time, rather than repeat the usual 20 names every year: I am convinced that the work of the record is that of a manager who makes contact, it distributes to other pressing and follows the processing stages of a product to put on sale, all aimed at making money. No matter what product, even a few years because the market will be completely transformed and maybe you will (or are already doing) tons of money selling intangible things, that the MP3 ... that have the status they have. Bah.
How do independent labels, you could publish material even limited-edition pieces of historical CGD, RCA, etc .... Am I dreaming? Well, things are almost always the case: whether the request for Lady Gaga is 10, and that for Van Wood is 3, push the accelerator on the first and never mind the second one (at most, the second you find it in the basket at the supermarket bargain price with the usual 20 songs).
Sometimes you find whole discography of an Italian abroad remastered on CD (we will discuss below) and this, too, suggests that there is a thirst for these particular things, although clearly not aimed at the majority users. But luckily there are.
Then there is publishing in the last year I was pleased with the publication of several books in the field, and some I dropped my choice, I was curious about the great San Remo almanac published by Panini and I got the book on Cinebox, fantastic, and still others, often strangers.
But what I tell you now, after the initial pleading, I think the first "field study" of this scale: a study of Italian groups, male and female, from 1944 to 1963, mainly explained. A pictorial journey through our musical history, from the most famous to the most obscure. This means that the postcards of groups and singers will be the advertising poster, the color reproductions of covers of 45, EP, LP, 10 ", the unpublished photographs provided, often the artists themselves, all accompanied by stories about training in Italian and English, discographies and memories of those who have given their time to the author of the box in question.
indivisible bag that contains two volumes printed on glossy paper and cover with semi-rigid, divided into topics that speak of swing, rock'n'roll, jazz, vocal groups and orchestras by night club, and not only that at some point that you want?
A Table in the queue to the second volume contains all the names mentioned in 840 pages, and if you try to search for Silvio Berlusconi, the result will refer to two pages with some photos and a brief history of the group to which he belonged, in the second mid-50s. The President has personally contributed to this work, and, in fact, is remembered as its contribution in the first few pages, not just him but many other actors of that period were contacted and interviewed over the past few years to make their Justice: I remember a meeting between me and Carl Cori, son of Roger who was the voice of the early formation of the Quartet to Marino Marini, and consequently the meeting with the editor for news about Roger. Or the one with Potito
Dipace drummer who took over in 1960 in the same formation, and now runs a music shop in the province of Milan.
The Vampire is cited among the "credits" of this work.
Frankly, I waited anxiously for some time and this release, and when I heard that last week began distributing to bookstores, I rushed to pick up my copy, and knowing my protege, Maurice Maiotti fact (that I know from away 1985), the work could only be excellent from what I saw. The tome is published
in'edizione limited to 1000 copies, and can be found at the Feltrinelli network or from specialist bookshops across Italy (a list of stores is available here: http://www.jamboreemagazine.com/pages/ cercoevendo.htm).
Among the many groups on site, I decided to introduce an EP of Torquato and 4, started from Cremona in 1958 and later became very famous in Spain in the early 60s.
This training has come under my magnifying glass by accident when I happened to listen to "Baby Night" two years ago and decided to find out more, I came across a handful of EP very common to find. What I present today seems to be the rarest of the lot (but not the rarest of their records, it seems), recorded in 1960. Most important feature of the training was to overturn famous songs, creating compelling versions, such as "Away From You", originally recorded by Fred Hammond with Asternovas in 1958, which here becomes a rock and roll "up-tempo," or my favorite, "A zebra a pois" transformed into an energetic rock-twist with the title "The cebra a pua" (found in another EP but added here as bonus). The Diamonds "Little Darling" seem to have been the model for the revival of "I live because I love you, and the only song closer to the standard is the classic folk" Tom Dooley. "
It was not uncommon, given the success in Spain, unbeaten in songs sung by them, all in Iberian language, while the normal translation of their name in Torquato Y Los 4. I know that
you're wondering: "Was it a quartet and they were called Torquato and 4, you alluded to something more?". Sure: Torquato was the "name" of the bass, which was live on stage in a central position, since playing it was the singer, Mauro Sachinni.
before alluded to foreign reprints of Italian record: the case of this group, which is the subject of a collection published by the independent Rama Lama Music three years ago, he remastered 30 tracks of their discography Philips (including "Selene", just played in the "disk Romanian" Modugno) and republished them in a CD booklet with extensive explanatory. In Spain, of course, where if you remember them better than here in Italy.
Frank Dee
TORQUATO QUATROS OS Y (1962) 01
Quireme Siempre (I live because I love you) (Guthrie-larch-Lines)
02 Tom Dooley (De Penagos-Gevane)
03 Lejos De Ti (Far It Yourself) (Buscaglione-Chiosso)
04 El Fin (The End) (Krondes-Jacob-Wheel)
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