Adriano Celentano is an Italian musician, singer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed il Molleggiato because of his dancing.
"Occhi di ragazza" was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970, performed in Italian by Gianni Morandi.
Caterina Caselli is an Italian record producer, music executive, singer and bass player.
Faustino (Fausto) Leali is an Italian pop singer.
"Prisencolinensinainciusol" is a song composed by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori. It was released as a single in 1972. Both the name of the song and its lyrics are gibberish but are intended to sound like English in an American accent.
Ragazzi del Juke-Box is a 1959 Italian "musicarello" film directed by Lucio Fulci and starring Mario Carotenuto, Elke Sommer and Anthony Steffen. Lucio Fulci has a cameo in the film as a festival organizer.
Claudia Moroni, known as Claudia Mori, is an Italian producer, former actress and former singer.
Gino Santercole was an Italian singer/songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He was well known for his breakthrough hit "Questo vecchio pazzo mondo", a cover of P.F. Sloan's "Eve of Destruction," and for the song "Such a Cold Night Tonight" that he sang in the movie Yuppi Du.
Little Tony was a Sammarinese singer and actor, who achieved success in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as the lead singer of Little Tony & His Brothers, before returning to Italy where he continued a successful career as a singer and film actor.
I Cugini di Campagna is an Italian pop band formed in 1970 in Rome. They are well known for the use of falsetto and for their eccentric look, a cross between glam and kitsch.
The musicarello is a film subgenre which emerged in Italy and which is characterised by the presence in main roles of young singers, already famous among their peers, and their new record album. In the films there are almost always tender and chaste love stories accompanied by the desire to have fun and dance without thoughts. Musicarelli reflect the desire and need for emancipation of young Italians, highlighting some generational frictions. The genre began in the late 1950s, and had its peak of production in the 1960s.
Dario Baldan Bembo is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, music arranger and musician, best known for the songs "Aria" and "Amico è".
Adriano Pappalardo is an Italian singer, actor and television personality.
Piero Vivarelli was an Italian film director, screenwriter and lyricist.
"Addormentarmi così" is a 1948 song written by the Italian lyricist Ornella Ferrari, to music by Vittorio Mascheroni for the singer Lidia Martorana with an arrangement of Pippo Barzizza. The lyrics begin: «Addormentarmi così/ fra le tue braccia/ mentre tu mi baci /mi baci sempre più...».
"Nessuno mi può giudicare" is an Italian pop song written by Luciano Beretta, Miki Del Prete, Daniele Pace and Mario Panzeri. The song premiered at the sixteenth edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, and was performed by Caterina Caselli and Gene Pitney, finishing second.
"Margherita" is an Italian ballad song written by Marco Luberti and Riccardo Cocciante, arranged by Vangelis and performed by Riccardo Cocciante. It was the first single from Cocciante's 1976 album Concerto per Margherita.
"Adesso sì" is a 1966 Italian song composed by Sergio Endrigo. The song premiered at the 16th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, with a double performance by Endrigo and Chad & Jeremy, and placed eight in the competition.
Ezio Leoni was one of the pioneering forces behind the Italian music scene of the "anni d'oro" of Italy's "musica leggera". A composer, arranger, orchestra conductor, producer and A&R executive, "Maestro" Leoni's contributions span from helping lay the foundation for Italian pop music in the 1950s and 1960s to opening the Southern European markets for some of the most influential American artists of the time. As a composer, he wrote the music of iconic Italian songs such as "24.000 Baci", "Si e' Spento il Sole", and "Il Tuo Bacio e' Come un Rock", while as arranger/conductor, producer, and A&R executive he collaborated with Italian music personalities such as Adriano Celentano, Tony Dallara, Fausto Leali, Luigi Tenco, Franco Simone, Iva Zanicchi and Fausto Papetti, among many others.
