Italiana (album)

Italiana
Volume 1 cover
Studio album by Mina
Released	November 1982 (1982-11)
Recorded	1982
Studio	Studi PDU, Lugano[1]
Genre	Pop rock Eurodisco[2]
Length	81:00
Language	Italian English Spanish
Label	PDU
Mina chronology
Salomè (1981) Italiana (1982) Del mio meglio n. 7 (1983)
Alternative cover
Volume 2 cover
Singles from Italiana
"Morirò per te" Released: September 1982[3]

Italiana is a double studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in November 1982 by PDU and distributed by EMI Italiana.^[4]

Overview

Like Mina's other material, this album came out as a double LP on first release. Thereafter the record was available as two separate albums with the titles of "Vol. 1" "vol. 2", while maintaining the same track list of the two original discs and the same cover.

"Sweet Transvestite" is a cover of a song from the soundtrack of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.^[5]

"Marrakesh" is the Italian version of the 1975 song "Qualquer coisa" by Caetano Veloso.^[6]

The songs "Il cigno dell'amore" and "Senza fiato" were covered by Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan (respectively as "Son Yolcu" and "Düşünme Hiç" in Turkish) for her album Süperstar '83 (1983).

Track listing

Volume 1

Side A

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Magica follia"	Andrea Lo Vecchio	Lo Vecchio	3:54
2.	"Il cigno dell'amore"	Anselmo Genovese	Genovese	4:21
3.	"Perfetto non so"	Lo Vecchio	Celso Valli	3:58
4.	"Per averti qui"	Massimiliano Pani Valentino Alfano	Pani Alfano	4:33
5.	"Ti dimentichi di Maria"	Pani	Valli	3:32

Side B

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Già visto"	Pani	Valli	5:12
2.	"Morirò per te"	Giancarlo Bigazzi	Maurizio Piccoli	4:20
3.	"O qué será (À flor da pele)"	Luis Gomez Escolar	Chico Buarque	5:24
4.	"Sapori di civiltà"	Pani Alfano	Pani Alfano	4:54

Volume 2

Side C

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Mi piace tanto la gente"	Carla Vistarini	Nat Kipner, Luigi Lopez	5:32
2.	"Sweet Transvestite"	Richard O'Brien	O'Brien	4:27
3.	"Senza fiato"	Osvaldo Miccichè Genovese	Genovese	4:02
4.	"La vita vuota"	Lucio Tunesi	Cesare Rotondo	3:41
5.	"Marrakesh (Qualquer coisa)"	Cristiano Malgioglio	Caetano Veloso	3:07

Side D

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"It's Your Move"	Kipner	Lopez	5:11
2.	"Musica d'Argentina"	Lo Vecchio	Valli	4:36
3.	"Caro qualcuno"	Sergio Bardotti	Umberto Bindi	5:06
4.	"Oggi è nero"	Pani Alfano	Pani Alfano	5:10

Personnel

• Mina – vocals
• Celso Valli – arrangement (A1–A3, A5, B1–B3, C3–C5, D2), keyboards (A1, A2, A5, B3, C3, D2)
• Massimiliano Pani – arrangement (A4, B4, C2, D4) guitar
• Victor Bach – arrangement (C1, D1), keyboards (C1, D1)
• Mario Robbiani – arrangement (D3), keyboards (D3)
• Naimy Hackett – background vocals (A1, A5, B1, B2, C1–C3, D1)
• Silvio Pozzoli – background vocals (A1, A5, B1, B2, C1–C3, D1)
• Marco Ferradini – background vocals (A1, A5, B1, B2, C2, C3)
• Aida Castignola – background vocals (C1, D1)
• Lella Esposito – background vocals (C1, D1)
• Gianni Farè – background vocals (C1, D1)
• Gigi Ferro – background vocals (C1, D1)
• Linda Wesley – background vocals (C1, D1)
• Gigi Cappellotto – bass (A1–A3, A5, B1, B3, C3–C5, D2, D3)
• Dino D'Autorio – bass (A4, B4, C2, D4)
• Franco Testa – bass (B2)
• Cosimo Fabiano – bass (C1, D1)
• Flaviano Cuffari – drums (A1–A3, A5, B1–B4, C1, C3–C5, D1, D2, D4)
• Bruno Bergonzi – drums (A4, C2), electronic drum, programming
• Rolando Ceragioli – drums (D3)
• Paolo Gianolio – guitar (A4, C1, C2, D1)
• Sergio Farina – guitar (A4, C1, C2, D1)
• Gigi Tonet – keyboards (A3, A5)
• Aldo Banfi – keyboards (A1–A5, B1–B4, C1–C5, D1, D2, D4)
• Pino Nicolosi – keyboards (A4, C2)
• Maurizio Preti – percussion (B1, B3, C3, C5)
• Nuccio Rinaldis – recording, mixing
• Sandro Caroli – recording (D3)
• Claudio Pascoli – saxophone (C2, D2)
• Rudy Migliardi – trombone (A4, C2, D1, D2)
• Pier Luigi Mucciolo – trumpet (D2)

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[1]

Charts

Chart performance for Italiana

Chart (1982–1983)	Peak position
Italian Albums (Billboard)[7]	11
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[8]	6

References

1. Mina (1982). Italiana (booklet). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 7030/1.
2. Italiana, Vol. 1 at AllMusic. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
3. "Morirò per te/Oggi è nero". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
4. Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Grafe.it. ISBN 9788893720885.
5. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
6. "Caetano Veloso". Archived from the original on 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
7. "Hits of the World" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 7. 19 February 1982. p. 58. ISSN 0006-2510.
8. Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN 978-1094705002.

External links

• Italiana at Discogs (list of releases)