Caterpillar (Mina album)

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Caterpillar
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Studio album by
Released18 October 1991 (1991-10-18)
Recorded1991
StudioStudi PDU, Lugano
Genre
Length82:25
Language
Label PDU
Mina chronology
Ti conosco mascherina
(1990)
Caterpillar
(1991)
Sorelle Lumière
(1992)

Caterpillar is a double studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 18 October 1991 and distributed by EMI Italiana. [3] [4]

Contents

Overview

The album, as usual, features a part with cover versions of famous world and Italian hits, originally released between 1927 (Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust") and 1979 (Gianna Nannini's "California"), as well as a part with new original material.

The song "Il genio del bene" was used by Rete 4 as the theme song of the telenovela Vendetta di una donna starring Luisa Kuliok. [5]

The album debuted at number fifteen on the Italian albums chart and peaked at number four in its fourth week, and stayed on the chart for a total of fifteen weeks. [6] In the European albums chart, it became the fifty-second. [7]

A remastered version of the album was released in 2001. [8]

Track listing

Volume 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Stardust"3:54
2."La casa del serpente" Ivano Fossati 6:10
3."Canto (Anche se sono stonato)"3:13
4."I'm a Fool To Care" Ted Daffan 3:03
5."Love Me, Please Love Me"
3:55
6."Doodlin'" Horace Silver 4:36
7."California" Gianna Nannini 5:29
8."Lo shampoo" Giorgio Gaber 3:39
9."Love Me Tender"
4:03
10."Legata ad uno scoglio"
  • Chiosso
  • Luttazzi
2:25
Total length:40:29
Volume 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Il corvo" Marco Luberti 3:44
2."Acquolina"
  • Samuele Cerri
  • Roberto Costa
5:00
3."Lunarità"
  • Cerri
  • Fabio Sinigaglia
5:05
4."Flamenco"4:24
5."Traditore" Giorgio Faletti 4:33
6."Fermi"
  • Cerri
  • Mauro Paoluzzi
4:49
7."Il genio del bene"Maurizio Morante4:07
8."L'indifferenza"
  • Silvestro Longo
  • Carlo Ambrosio
4:55
9."Amanti"
  • Gino De Nicola
  • Nicola Di Battista
5:15
Total length:41:56

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [9]

Charts

Chart performance for Caterpillar
Chart (1991)Peak
position
European Albums ( Music & Media ) [7] 52
Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [6] 4

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  7. 1 2 "European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media . Vol. 8, no. 47. 23 November 1991. p. 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2021.
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