Frutta e verdura
Frutta e verdura | ||||
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Released | 23 October 1973 | |||
Recorded | 1972–1973 | |||
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Length | 38:50 | |||
Language | Italian | |||
Label | PDU | |||
Mina chronology | ||||
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Singles from Frutta e verdura | ||||
Frutta e verdura is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1973 by PDU and originally distributed by EMI Italiana as a double album along with Amanti di valore.[4] This pair of albums spent eight consecutive weeks at the first place of the Italian chart.[5]
Track listing
[edit]No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Fa qualcosa" |
| 3:58 |
2. | "Non tornare più" | 4:42 | |
3. | "Devo tornare a casa mia" | Luigi Clausetti | 3:50 |
4. | "Domenica sera" |
| 3:20 |
5. | "La vigilia di Natale" | 3:38 | |
Total length: | 19:28 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Questo sì, questo no" | 4:20 | |
2. | "E poi..." |
| 4:47 |
3. | "Dichiarazione d'amore" |
| 3:00 |
4. | "La pioggia di marzo (Aguas de Março)" | 3:40 | |
5. | "Tentiamo ancora" |
| 3:35 |
Total length: | 19:22 |
Personnel
[edit]- Mina – vocals
- Pino Presti – arrangement (A1, A4–B5), bass, piano, Rhodes piano
- Dario Baldan Bembo – arrangement (A2)
- Natale Massara – arrangement (A3)
- Nuccio Rinaldis – sound engineering
- Mario Carulli – recording (A3)
- Massimo Verardi – acoustic guitar, mandolin
- Dino Comolli's "I musicals" – backing vocals
- Renè Mantegna – conga
- Tullio De Piscopo – drums
- Andrea Sacchi – electric and acoustic guitar
- Sergio Farina – electric guitar
- Hugo Heredia – flute
- Victor Bacchetta – piano, Hammond organ
- Oscar Valdambrini – trumpet
- Al Korvin – trumpet
- Fermo Lini – trumpet
- Giuliano Bernicchi – trumpet
- Sergio Almangano – violin
- Arturo Prestipino Giarritta – violin
- Dino Comolli – whistling (A4)
- Mauro Balletti – photography
- Luciano Tallarini – artwork, design
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[2]
Charts
[edit]Chart (1974) | Peak position |
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Italian Albums (Billboard)[6] | 2 |
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[5] | 1 |
Chart (1974) | Peak position |
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Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[5] | 2 |
Cover versions
[edit]Some of the songs of this album have been recorded in different languages by Mina during the 1970s. "Non tornare più" was covered and released in French ("Les oiseaux reviennent") in a 1974 as a single. "Devo tornare a casa mia" was covered in 1975 in Spanish, "Debo volver ya con los mios", as well as "Questo sì, questo no" ("Esto sì, esto no"). "Domenica sera" has three different versions: in Spanish ("Domingo a la noche"), in German ("Die Liebe am Sonntag") and in English ("Don't Ask Me To Love You"). "E poi..." was recorded in other four languages: English ("Runaway"), Spanish ("¿Y que?""), french ("Et puis ça sert à quoi") and German ("Und dann"). There is also versions of the song in 1992 album Sorelle Lumière, in which the song was mixed with Riccardo Cocciante's "Un nuovo amico".
References
[edit]- ^ "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ a b Mina (1973). Frutta e verdura (liner notes). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 5069. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ "E poi.../Non tornare più". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). "Numero Uno". Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Graphe.it Edizioni. p. 34. ISBN 9788893720885. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ a b c Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). Amazon Digital Services LLC – Kdp Print Us. pp. 225–228. ISBN 978-1094705002.
- ^ Ruscitto, Germano (25 May 1974). "Hits of the World – Italy" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 86, no. 21. p. 64. ISSN 0006-2510.
External links
[edit]- Frutta e verdura at Discogs (list of releases)
- Frutta e verdura/Amanti di valore at Discogs