Here we are promised the post of Colonel Orlando dedicated to Giancarlo.
We have chosen only her first songs, finishing the sorting to 1960, plus a piece of the following be added as bonus track "virtual.
Let me clarify one thing: this post would be reached.
As you know the blog has a predilection for characters not exactly common. E 'born for this reason. In the coming weeks are there other "weekly releases" based singers who some call "minor", a term conventional and stupid. Again with the help of
Kurtigghiu as in this case.
Giancarlo She was sixteen when his friends, enjoying a break from the singer's owner, pushed him on stage in a hall on the outskirts of Milan and forced him to sing. The result was an engagement by Aldo Maietti, the celebrated conductor specializing in Argentine tango.
For a couple of years the young singer got busy, three nights a week, singing in English to the tune of Caminito, El Choclo and The Violetera , dressed in an unlikely gaucho costume with lots of hat and kerchief tied around his neck.
By day he worked as a designer at a printing and lithography, as long as he could, he held up both activities. When Pino Calvi then signed him for an entire season in Salice Terme, was forced to choose. The mess was hard, fifty, sixty songs for the evening plucking bass but after the pink card, the months spent in the CAR Cuneo (I know what you're thinking ... yes, in Cuneo) were even harder. With the last name he found himself was to be the target of every joke on the part of comrades and by the superiors. The situation also contributed a slight speech impediment, which would have also created some problems in live performance, especially in the songs with too many Rs. But the good character and ended up liking prevail. Back from
gang, Giancarlo was faced with a new music scene. No more flourishes and melodies, no more tangos assassins after the turn of Flying and As before, after and Diana Only You people not in the halls did not want to know what kind of music and decided Colonel to adapt. First he wanted to be called Gene . It was the summer of 1958 and with the orchestra of Tony De Vita made the entire season in Varazze in this new role as a rocker, winning the acclaim of the public and also the estimation of some insider. In autumn, in Venice was the meeting with Renato Carosone, who at that time was planning to set up his own record label. Gene was the first artist to be hired and the 45 that began with the vampire the other night I presented in a way like a true expert in the marketing record: the first single, as appetizer, then the real album , which is what we deliver to you today with a lot of original artwork packaged by the legendary Kurt.
The first 45 laps of Colonel Gene is also the first 45 laps (AS code 60001, year 1959) of Stereo, the label with which Carosone, after years of huge success with Pathé, continued to produce records for another short period before the resounding farewell to the stage. The same Carosone wrote for him the following year Cow Boy and Gene began to attract attention to the Ice Palace in Milan, where with Mina, Celentano, Gaber and many others he founded the "Festival of the Juke Box". At the end of 1959 comes Hello Hello Baby who is also his first real success: the doors of RAI-TV broadcasts and Gene is involved in leading as "the musician" , "four steps between the notes" and then "Happy Holidays" with Gorni Kramer Quartet and the Cetra. B-side is The moon and the cow boy Buffoli the master, which was also recorded by Mina. In March 1960 Gene participates in "Six Days of the song" paired with Paula, another singer of the generation of howler of which today we lost track. Between the two print features a flirt, but more important is that at the end of six days of their song, Let star moon (for lovers) is proclaimed winner of the event. Seabream with square-rimmed tortoise, which in the memory of the child I was confused with Jimmy Fontana and Pepper, Gene had actually a totally different voice: a lovely voice "of his chest" like a little 'as a way to that Tony Dallara, which lent itself well to both the melodic and rock which to swing, as this collection shows us.
The next step in the career of Colonel Gene participation in 1960 was the second "Festival Musicians' , an event that unfortunately stopped that same year for the tragic death of its promoter and organizer, Maria Riva. At Festival Musicians competed songs composed by amateurs, which were then completed (in the text or music) from famous authors, from Modugno Mascheroni, Carlo Alberto Rossi, Umberto Bindi. The latter selects the text of a certain Andrea Cason, A paradise for sale, to compose the song that is played by Gene colonel and that he will decide then record a solo version. B-side of this is the famous 45s soundtrack "Never on Sunday" , titled in Italian One you, one for me . Other scores are part of this collection, from Gloria (from "BUtterfield") to Maria (from "West Side Story").
Gene Colonel singer's career did not continue for long: many are the reasons that bear his signature as an author, although the most dramatic case is that I do not have the age of , also mentioned in the comments of the page blog last Thursday. Officially attributed solely to Nisa and Panzeri, the winner of Sanremo 1964 was written in reality, also Colonel, but for the vagaries of the Rules of those years, each composer was present in only one contest plea (the songwriters did not have this limit). Given the choice, Colonel Winter only wanted to sign what do you do? and found himself mocked when the song was deleted. Even more so when it was awarded first prize at Cinquetti, against all the odds that on the eve gave favorites as Paul Anka and Bobby Solo. The Colonel's song My preference is too long , perhaps a bit flawed interpretation 'too melodramatic by Milva. Performed with less emphasis and arranged in a less traditional, maybe it would become a classic.
Songs and advertising jingle composed by him can be found on many websites. A brief foray back in the '80s with "califanesco" Gene as a singer I was just given by the Vampire. I like to remember the first version of Gene, what emerges in the recordings of this raqccolta, a character and so generous that certainly in the pages of newspapers and in the schedules of Tigga deserved, at least at the time of his death, a thing more.
next Sunday, if the Vampire "allows me"
Orlando
HELLO HELLO HELLO BABY
01 Venus (Calibe-Marshall) (1959) 02
When (Chiosso-Reardon-Evans) (1959)
03 Cow Boy (Nisa-Carosone) (1960) 04
Not Seek (Valleron-Locatelli-Bronze) (1960) 05
A Paradise for sale (Cason-bind) (1960) 06
One Of You One For Me (Jade -Hadjidakis) (1960) 07
Hello Hello Hello Baby (Calibe-Gerson) (1960) 08
The Moon And The Cowboy (Nisa-Buffoli) (1960) 09
Never mind the moon (Mirror-Trombetta) (1960)
10 in love (AVSavona) (1960) 11
Scandal Al Sole (Calibe-Mogol-Franchi-Steiner) (1960) 12
Sin (Beretta-Trombetta) (1960) 13
Gloria (Deville-Kaper) (from the movie BUtterfield ) (1960) 14 Eyes
Matti (Deville-Van Heusen) (from the movie Let's Make Love) (1960)
15 (BONUS TRACK) Maria (Bernstein-Deville) (from film WEST SIDE STORY) (1961)
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