Amanti di valore

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Amanti di valore
Amanti di valore Mina 1973.jpg
Studio album by
Released22 October 1973 (1973-10-22)
Recorded1973
Studio La Basilica, Milan [1]
Genre Pop
Length38:56
Language Italian
Label PDU
Mina chronology
Frutta e verdura
(1973)
Amanti di valore
(1973)
Evergreens
(1974)

Amanti di valore is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1973 by PDU and originally distributed by EMI Italiana as a double album along with Frutta e verdura . [2]

Contents

Overview

The album's songs are dedicated to love and sex. Mina, again going against the flow, relies on the lyrics of the promising author Franco Califano, who describes without taboos the relationship between two adulterers ("Amanti di valore") or the absurd erotic games that she learns to please her man, thereby losing the natural spontaneity and naivety associated with the act of love ("Inibizioni al vento"). [3]

"Carlo detto il mandrillo" differs in that Mina does not perform the lead vocal part, but sounds like part of the choir. This is a song about a man overwhelmed with excessive passion in search of a woman. The song was removed from foreign releases due to censorship. [3]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Franco Califano; all music is composed by Carlo Pes

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Amanti di valore"4:22
2."La vita goccia a goccia"4:32
3."Ieri, ieri"3:59
4."I sogni di un semplice"5:04
5."La solita storia d'amore"3:33
6."Un po' d'uva"0:28
Total length:21:58
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Il poeta che non pensa mai"3:59
2."La mia vecchiaia"3:14
3."Carlo detto il mandrillo"2:57
4."Inibizioni al vento"4:00
5."Ninna nanna amore stanco"2:48
Total length:16:58

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [4]

Charts

Chart performance for Amanti di valore and Frutta e verdura
Chart (1974)Peak
position
Italian Albums ( Billboard ) [5] 2
Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [6] 1
Chart performance for Amanti di valore
Chart (1974)Peak
position
Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [6] 3

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References

  1. "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  2. Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). "Numero Uno". Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Graphe.it Edizioni. p. 34. ISBN   9788893720885 . Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 Bassotti, Paolo (2004). Sexy rock: 50 storie di musica e rivoluzione sessuale (in Italian). Arcana. p. 240. ISBN   9788862313506.
  4. Mina (1973). Amanti di valore (liner notes). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 5070. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  5. Ruscitto, Geramno (25 May 1974). "Hits of the World – Italy" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 86, no. 21. p. 64. ISSN   0006-2510.
  6. 1 2 Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us. pp. 225–228. ISBN   978-1094705002.

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