Nessuno

"Nessuno"
"Nessuno"
Single by Mina
from the album Tintarella di luna
B-side	"Tua"
Released	1959
Genre	Pop
Label	Italdisc
Songwriter(s)	Antonietta De Simone, Edilio Capotosti
Mina singles chronology

"Nessuno" (literally "Nobody") is a 1959 Italian song composed by Antonietta De Simone and Edilio Capotosti. The song premiered at the ninth edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, with a double performance by Wilma De Angelis and Betty Curtis, and placed at the eighth place.^[1]^[2]

Ignored by the public in its original versions, the song got a large commercial success thanks to the rock'n'roll version recorded by Mina.^[2] Mina's version was performed in fortissimo and in a syncopated style, distorting the linearity of the original melody.^[3] This version of the song premiered at the Festival of Rock and Roll held at the Milan Ice Palace.^[4] Thanks to the song Mina got her early television appearances, performing the song in the three most popular television shows of the time, Il Musichiere, Lascia o raddoppia? and Canzonissima, in the latter case in a duet with De Angelis.^[5] Mina also performed the song, in a slightly different version, in the 1960 Lucio Fulci's film Howlers in the Dock.^[5]

The song was later covered by numerous artists, including Johnny Dorelli, Nilla Pizzi, Jula De Palma, Tony Dallara, Fiorello, Nico Fidenco, Miranda Martino.^[2]

Mina's "Nessuno" was released as a "double A-side" together with another song from the Sanremo Festival, "Tua", which had been originally performed by Jula De Palma and Tonina Torrielli.

Track listing

7" single – MH-23

"Tua" (Bruno Pallesi, Walter Malgoni)
"Nessuno" (Antonietta De Simone, Edilio Capotosti)

References

^ Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 978-8863462296.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dario Salvatori (2001). "Nessuno". Dizionario delle canzoni italiane. Elle u, 2001. ISBN 8888169016.
^ Marcello Bufacchi. Mina - 1958-2005: ancora insieme. Editori Riuniti, 2005. ISBN 9788835956952.
^ Tato Crotti, Giovanni Bassi. Mina prima di Mina. Rizzoli, 2007. ISBN 9788817019453.
^ ^a ^b Cerchiari, Luca (25 August 2020). "Da Cremona a Tintarella di luna". Mina. Una voce universale (in Italian). Mondadori. ISBN 978-88-357-0096-8.