"Paolo Pizzi" > wrote in message
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> Sometime ago, I was talking to someone at a party who
> claimed he knew Conte and he had some CD's of him.
> The really funny thing is that he was convinced Conte
> was...French!!!!!!! I guess it's beacuse he did some
> work in France like soundtracks etc. Only in America
> people can be that ignorant!!

Perhaps that was also due to the fact that his song "Via con me" was used
in the soundtrack of the Hollywood movie "French Kiss" (a film otherwise
full of cliches, but I'll leave it to the French to gripe about that
;-) ).

Enzo

Enzo Michelangeli a écrit :

> Yeah, those are good (and real) Italian songs. (BTW, I also cringe every
> time someone mentions "Ciribiribin" %-( )
>
> Tenco was a promising and talented artist, with a singing style somewhat
> influenced by Nat King Cole, but sadly he took his life in 1967 (or was
> killed by his lover's ex-husband, according to one conspiracy theory).
>
> Regarding "Azzurro", although the most famous version was recorded by A.
> Celentano, the song was written by Paolo Conte, one of the best
> contemporary authors and with a respectable Jazz background. If you can
> find it, check out his LP of 1993, "Tournée"
> (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg.../-/B000006XRY/ ).
>
> Or, to those who like more traditional stuff like classic Neapolitan
> songs, I would rather recommend anything recorded by the late Roberto
> Murolo or by the guitarist Fausto Cigliano (sample of the latter at
> http://www.folkclub.it/mp3/Cigliano.mp3).

And since we are on the subject of Italian songwriters and singers, let me
pull a plug for my 3 favorite ones :
- Fabrizio De Andre (sadly, died a few years ago in his late fifties). He has
a son, Cristian De Andre, who sings too, I never heard him so can't comment.
- Francesco Guccini
- Roberto Vecchioni

Nathalie in Switzerland

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:01:09 -0500, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>blake murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:34:15 -0500, Bob > wrote:
>>
>> >Nancy Young wrote:
>> >
>> >> Bob wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>Pittsburgh says "to
>> >>>red up" a room meaning "to tidy."
>> >>
>> >> Ret up, I think, as in right up.
>> >
>> >I don't think it related to right, but it's hard to tell. When I lived
>> >there, I thought I heard it as "red" (could certainly have been "ret")
>> >but everybody understood the expression.
>> >
>> >Pastorio
>>
>> i would think it short for 'ready' ('ready up a room').
>
>Well, I spent my summers in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania,
>and they said ret up, with a t.
>
>nancy

another good theory shot to hell.

your pal,
fulton

on 21:51, giovedì 29 gennaio 2004 Paolo Pizzi wrote:

> Sometime ago, I was talking to someone at a party who
> claimed he knew Conte and he had some CD's of him.
> The really funny thing is that he was convinced Conte
> was...French!!!!!!! I guess it's beacuse he did some
> work in France like soundtracks etc. Only in America
> people can be that ignorant!!


Mi pare che Conte ha avuto successo prima in Francia che da
noi.


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on 13:04, venerdì 30 gennaio 2004 Nathalie Chiva wrote:

> And since we are on the subject of Italian songwriters and
> singers, let me pull a plug for my 3 favorite ones :
> - Fabrizio De Andre (sadly, died a few years ago in his
> late fifties). He has a son, Cristian De Andre, who sings
> too, I never heard him so can't comment.
> - Francesco Guccini
> - Roberto Vecchioni


Lucio Battisti
Giorgio Gaber
Lucio Dalla
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> Nathalie in Switzerland


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