Perdono (Caterina Caselli song)

"Perdono"
Single by Caterina Caselli
from the album Casco d'oro
B-side	"L'uomo d'oro"
Released	1966
Genre	Pop
Length	2:55
Label	CGD
Songwriter(s)	Piero Soffici, Mogol
Caterina Caselli singles chronology
"Nessuno mi può giudicare" (1966) "Perdono" (1966) "Cento giorni" (1966)

"Perdono" (Italian pronunciation: [perˈdoːno], i.e. "Forgive me") is an Italian pop song written by Piero Soffici and Mogol and performed by Caterina Caselli.

The song was released as a "double A-side" together with "L'uomo d'oro". It was launched on the occasion of the third edition of the Festivalbar, and it won the competition as the most listened song in Italian jukeboxes with over 72,000 hits in the 1966 Summer.^[1][2] "L'uomo d'oro" entered the competition Un disco per l'estate eventually finishing fifth.^[3]

The same year, “Perdono” was adapted into a musicarello, film with the same name, directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti and starring Laura Efrikian and the same Caterina Caselli.^[4]

Track listing

• 7" single – N 9612

"L'uomo d'oro" (Daniele Pace, Alceo Guatelli, Mario Panzeri) – 2:31

"Perdono" (Piero Soffici, Mogol) – 2:55

Charts

Chart (1966)	Peak position
Italy[5]	3

References

1. Enrico Deregibus (8 October 2010). Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. ISBN 978-8809756250.
2. a. g. (16 September 1966). "La Caselli urlando "Perdono" vince II festival dei juke-boxes". La Stampa. No. 209.
3. Fernando Fratarcangeli. "Un disco per l'estate 1966". Raro! (90). June 1988.
4. Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.
5. Dario Salvatori (1989). Storia dell'Hit Parade. Gramese. ISBN 8876054391.