Frutta e verdura

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Frutta e verdura
Frutta e verdura Mina 1973.jpg
Studio album by
Released23 October 1973 (1973-10-23) [1]
Recorded1972–1973
Studio
Genre
Length38:50
Language Italian
Label PDU
Mina chronology
Del mio meglio n. 2
(1973)
Frutta e verdura
(1973)
Amanti di valore
(1973)
Singles from Frutta e verdura
  1. "E poi..."
    Released: October 1973 [4]

Frutta e verdura 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 Amanti di valore . [5] This pair of albums spent eight consecutive weeks at the first place of the Italian chart. [6]

Contents

The cover of this album is the first one created by Mauro Balletti. [7]

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Fa qualcosa"
3:58
2."Non tornare più"4:42
3."Devo tornare a casa mia"Luigi Clausetti3:50
4."Domenica sera"
3:20
5."La vigilia di Natale"3:38
Total length:19:28
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Questo sì, questo no"4:20
2."E poi..."
  • Lo Vecchio
  • Shapiro
4:47
3."Dichiarazione d'amore"
3:00
4."La pioggia di marzo (Aguas de Março)"3:40
5."Tentiamo ancora"3:35
Total length:19:22

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [3]

Charts

Cover versions

Some of the songs of this album have been recorded in different languages by Mina during the 1970s. "Non tornare più" was covered and released in French ("Les oiseaux reviennent") in a 1974 as a single. "Devo tornare a casa mia" was covered in 1975 in Spanish, "Debo volver ya con los mios", as well as "Questo sì, questo no" ("Esto sì, esto no"). "Domenica sera" has three different versions: in Spanish ("Domingo a la noche"), in German ("Die Liebe am Sonntag") and in English ("Don't Ask Me To Love You"). "E poi..." was recorded in other four languages: English ("Runaway"), Spanish ("¿Y que?""), french ("Et puis ça sert à quoi") and German ("Und dann"). There is also versions of the song in 1992 album Sorelle Lumière , in which the song was mixed with Riccardo Cocciante's "Un nuovo amico".

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