Attila (album)

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Attila
Attila Mina 1979.jpg
Studio album by
Mina
ReleasedOctober 1979
Recorded1979
Studio La Basilica, Milan [1]
Genre
Length87:54
Language
Label PDU
Mina chronology
Del mio meglio n. 5
(1979)		Attila
(1979)		 Kyrie
(1980)
Singles from Attila
  1. "Anche un uomo"
    Released: March 1979 [3]

Attila is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on October 1979 by PDU.

Contents

Overview

Released as a double album in the October of 1979, Attila was an immediate success and is one of the top 3 best-selling albums of the singer's career. [4] At just sixteen years old, Mina's son Massimiliano Pani made his debut as a songwriter with two tracks entitled: "Sensazioni" and "Il vento".

Anche un uomo was the ending theme of the TV quiz show Lascia o raddoppia? [5] written by Mike Bongiorno, Anselmo Genovese and the famous "Mr. No" Ludovico Peregrini. [6]

"Don't Take Your Love Away" is a cover of a song written by Isaac Hayes. The song is also the longest track recorded by Mina.

The track "Un po' di più" was originally sung by Patty Pravo and included on her album Sì... incoerenza in 1972.

The song "Rock and Roll Star" and "Anche tu" were also recorded by Mina is Spanish under the titles "Estrella del rock" e "También tù", respectively. These two songs were included on the Spanish version of Attila.

The album cover is signed by Luciano Tallarini, on photographs of Mauro Ballets reworked with the airbrush by Gianni Ronco. The album cover won the prize for best cover of the year and is displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [7] [8]

Critical reception

Claudio Milano from OndaRock  [ it ] noted that Attila was positioned as an ambitious project, but in the end it turned out to be weak. It was from this album, in his opinion, that the decline in Mina's creative path began. Milano called the songs "Don't take Your Love" and "Shadow of My Old Road" the most worthy on the album. [9]

Track listing

Volume 1

Side A
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Tiger Bay"Julie ScottBeppe Cantarelli6:50
2."Ma ci pensi"Nino Romano Federico Monti Arduini 4:15
3."Se il mio canto sei tu"Paola BlandiCantarelli4:23
4."Non tornerò"BlandiCantarelli6:31
Side B
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Che novità"Firmo RizziniDanidy4:54
2."Bonne nuit" Andrea Lo Vecchio Shel Shapiro 3:11
3."Sensazioni"
  • Alfano
  • Pani
4:47
4."Un po' di più" Sergio Bardotti Shapiro3:57
5."Il vento"
  • Alfano
  • Pani
  • Alfano
  • Pani
4:56

Volume 2

Side C
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Don't Take Your Love Away"Lee Hatim Isaac Hayes 9:25
2."Rock and Roll Star"Lo VecchioShapiro3:29
3."Fiore amaro"Enrico RiccardiRiccardi4:03
4."Sei metà"BlandiCantarelli5:18
Side D
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Anche tu" Cristiano Minellono Cantarelli4:56
2."Street Angel"
  • Bobby Hart
  • Bobby Weinstein
Teddy Randazzo4:45
3."Che volgarità" Cristiano Malgioglio Corrado Castellari 3:41
4."Anche un uomo"
Anselmo Genovese4:48
5."Shadow of My Old Road"RizziniDanidy4:05

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Attila
Chart (1979–80)Peak
position
Italian Albums ( Billboard ) [10] 5
Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [11] 2

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References

  1. ↑ "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  2. ↑ Attila, Vol. 1 at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Anche un uomo / Se il mio canto sei tu". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  4. ↑ http://beppecantarelli.com/seilmiocanto.html Come nasce una canzone: Se il mio canto sei tu
  5. ↑ Farina, Corrado (2000). Un posto al buio. ISBN   9788886312462.
  6. ↑ "Cover versions of Anche un uomo by Mina | SecondHandSongs". SecondHandSongs.
  7. ↑ "Una vita in copertina…Luciano Tallarini,il guru delle front! | Fotografi Napoli". Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "Un volume raccoglie le copertine di Luciano Tallarini - l'Isola della Musica Italiana". Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  9. ↑ Milano, Claudio. "Mina - biografia, recensioni, streaming, discografia, foto". OndaRock (in Italian). Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  10. ↑ Ruscitto, Germano (22 March 1980). "Hits of the World – Italy" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 92, no. 12. p. 71. ISSN   0006-2510.
  11. ↑ Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN   978-1094705002.
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