Insieme (song)

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"Insieme"
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Single by Mina
from the album ...quando tu mi spiavi in cima a un batticuore...
LanguageItalian
B-side "Viva lei"
ReleasedMay 1970 (1970-05)
Genre Pop
Length4:06
Label PDU
Composer(s) Lucio Battisti
Lyricist(s) Mogol
Mina singles chronology
"Bugiardo e incosciente"
(1970)		"Insieme"
(1970)		"No Arms Can Ever Hold You"
(1970)
Music video
"Insieme" on YouTube

"Insieme" (English: Together) is a song by Italian singer Mina, released by PDU in May 1970 as a lead single from her studio album ...quando tu mi spiavi in cima a un batticuore... . [1] The song became one of Mina's most successful. [2]

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Overview

The lyrics to this song were written by Mogol, at the same time he wrote the song "Fiori rosa fiori di pesco". The last one was given to Lucio Battisti, and this one was given to Mina on the occasion of her thirtieth birthday. [3] Battisti also wrote the music for "Insieme". [4]

The single debuted at the twenty-fourth position on the Italian singles chart and peaked at number two after twelve weeks, then stayed in the top three for another nine weeks. In total, he stayed on the chart for thirty weeks. [5]

Mina also recorded a Spanish version called "Juntos", with adapted lyrics was Julio César. This version was released as a single in Latin America, [6] much later the songs were released in Italy in the compilations Colección latina (2001) and Yo soy Mina (2011).

The B-side was "Viva lei", written by Paolo Limiti and Mario Nobile and first released in 1998 on the album Studio Collection .

Charts

Chart performance for "Insieme"
Chart (1970)Peak
position
Italy ( Discografia Internazionale ) [7] 1
Italy ( Musica e dischi ) [5] 2

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References

  1. ↑ "Insieme/Viva lei". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  2. ↑ Castaldo, Gino, ed. (2003). "Le Canzoni". Dizionario della Canzone Italiana (in Italian). Rome: Armando Curcio Editore. p. 510. ISBN   9788897508311.
  3. ↑ Antonuccio, Paolo. "Insieme (di L. Battisti – Mogol)". Hit Parade Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  4. ↑ Fabbri, Franco; Plastino, Goffredo, eds. (2013). Made in Italy: Studies in Popular Music. Routledge Global Popular Music Series (Illustrated ed.). Routledge. p. 170. ISBN   9781136585548.
  5. 1 2 Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Singoli 1960–2019 (in Italian). pp. 306–308. ISBN   9781093264906.
  6. ↑ " Juntos (Insieme) " at Discogs. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  7. ↑ "Hits of the World". Billboard . Vol. 82, no. 38. 19 September 1970. p. 61. ISSN   0006-2510.
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