Older Italian Music

Can you guys give me the names of Italian artists who were big during the 50's and 60's?

 

Adriano Celentano, Lucio Battisti, Dik Dik, PFM...
There was De Gregori and Carosone, too.

ps I loooove California XD. It's a... just... beautiful country... :-D

 

in my opinion the best italian singer ever is rino gaetano, as dreamingwight said before.
he's absolutely my favourite! he wrote wonderful songs like "aida" "il cielo è sempre più blu" "mio fratello è figlio unico" and so on... they're all great!

 

oh well, and eugenio finardi is a very good singer too!
anyway, this is rino http://files.myopera.com/fahrenheit451/blog/rino_gaetano_01.jpg
and he's eugenio (the cover of an LP i own) http://www.pagine70.com/vmnews/archivio/sugo.jpg

 

thank you guys oh so very much. I can't wait to listen to all of these people you've mentioned. I'm so excited!
dreamingwight, I've always wanted to visit Italy! Im currently learning italian, and when I master it I'll be taking my first trip to Italy.
Didjerigirl, I just saw the picture of rino, and he is very cute. Can't wait to listen to him.

Thank you all!

 

Oh i think PFM is the best of the best, even if... you know... my god is Jim Morrison XD. I'm pleased you like italy, well you know... as country is really beautiful... but as nation sucks... i mean there are lots of wonderful places in italy but nowadays Italy is a nation of the 3rd world! XD

 

If you like progressive PFM (premiata forneria marconi) which also recorded a live album in USA and Le Orme were a great band too, one of my favorite.
If you like the rhythm and blues songs: Lucio Battisti.
Listen also Francesco De Gregori which is a great folk artist a sort of italian Bob Dylan.

 

do you know of any more artists who are in the samre genre as Bob Dylan besides de Gregori? I love bob dylan! : )

 

The most important italian folk artists besides De Gregori are:
Fabrizio De Andrè, Francesco Guccini, Lucio Dalla. Enjoy!

 

And battisti, too..

 

Hi all,

I have some old sound tapes with musics from years 1965-'70.
In one tape there is an Italian song, but I don't know anything about it. I wish to know the singer's name and the title of the song.
Does anybody know this song?

Please, listen it:
http://wrk.freeweb.hu/italian_ballad_(~1967).mp3

(Sorry for sound quality.)

And... unfortunately I can't speak Italian so I don't understand the lyrics, would anybody help me please...

Greets
ThingFish

 

It's a song from Neapolis i think... i can recognize the typical slang (non ci sta più -> nun ci sta cchiù)... but hemm... i've never heard this song...

the words used in the song are so common and this song is so unknown that you should ask somewhere else, i just don't know how to find the title.
Anyway, i'm pretty sure that the guy that written it was from Neapolis.

 

But what he's singing about?... atleast sketchy...

I think it will be difficult to find anybody, who knows this song... I have tried some music forums before, but nobody could help me.

 

He's singing about a women that is no more with him.

That song contains too much slang. I can't even understand what the singer says in some pieces of the song!!! Trust me, the quality is too bad... why don't you try to ask to the administrator of freeweb.hu? Maybe he knows what that song is.

 

Sound quality is bad, because the song was digitized from a very old (40 years old) tape... (freeweb.hu is just a webspace provider whereto I uploaded this song).

Just one more (two) question... What is the first/last sentence in the lyrics and what it means?

"no, nun ti voglio qiu si picatura" ?!... or what ?! Maybe it must be the title...

 

Yes! Excellent!

It means

No, i don't want you more if you are a "picatura"

well picatura is... peccatrice... someone that does "peccato"... you do a "peccato" if you don't respect the rules in the bible... but in this context, i think the singer was thinking that the girl was a... ehm... bitch.

 

Great! Now I know a little bit more about this enigmatic song.
Thank you for the help (and the grammar lesson)!
I continue the investigation...

 

Oh good luck!

 

ah ah ah ah!!!
good luck everybody!!!! XD

 

The song title is Piccatura and the singer is Peppino di Capri. He is neapolitan but the song is sicilian. You can hear the Jew's harp (typical sicilian instrument) on the base.