Italiana (album)

Italiana
Volume 1 cover
Studio album by Mina
Released	November 1982 (1982-11)
Recorded	1982
Studio	Studi PDU, Lugano [1]
Genre	Pop rock Eurodisco [2]
Length	81:00
Language	Italian English Spanish
Label	PDU
Mina chronology
Salomè (1981) Italiana (1982) Del mio meglio n. 7 (1983)
Alternative cover
Volume 2 cover

Side A

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Magica follia"	Andrea Lo Vecchio	Lo Vecchio	3:54
2.	"Il cigno dell'amore"	Anselmo Genovese	Genovese	4:21
3.	"Perfetto non so"	Lo Vecchio	Celso Valli	3:58
4.	"Per averti qui"	Massimiliano Pani Valentino Alfano	Pani Alfano	4:33
5.	"Ti dimentichi di Maria"	Pani	Valli	3:32

Side B

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Già visto"	Pani	Valli	5:12
2.	"Morirò per te"	Giancarlo Bigazzi	Maurizio Piccoli	4:20
3.	"O qué será (À flor da pele)"	Luis Gomez Escolar	Chico Buarque	5:24
4.	"Sapori di civiltà"	Pani Alfano	Pani Alfano	4:54

Volume 2

Side C

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Mi piace tanto la gente"	Carla Vistarini	Nat Kipner, Luigi Lopez	5:32
2.	"Sweet Transvestite"	Richard O'Brien	O'Brien	4:27
3.	"Senza fiato"	Osvaldo Miccichè Genovese	Genovese	4:02
4.	"La vita vuota"	Lucio Tunesi	Cesare Rotondo	3:41
5.	"Marrakesh (Qualquer coisa)"	Cristiano Malgioglio	Caetano Veloso	3:07

Side D

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"It's Your Move"	Kipner	Lopez	5:11
2.	"Musica d'Argentina"	Lo Vecchio	Valli	4:36
3.	"Caro qualcuno"	Sergio Bardotti	Umberto Bindi	5:06
4.	"Oggi è nero"	Pani Alfano	Pani Alfano	5:10

Personnel

• Mina – vocals
• Celso Valli – arrangement (A1–A3, A5, B1–B3, C3–C5, D2), keyboards (A1, A2, A5, B3, C3, D2)
• Massimiliano Pani – arrangement (A4, B4, C2, D4) guitar
• Victor Bach – arrangement (C1, D1), keyboards (C1, D1)
• Mario Robbiani – arrangement (D3), keyboards (D3)
• Naimy Hackett – background vocals (A1, A5, B1, B2, C1–C3, D1)
• Silvio Pozzoli – background vocals (A1, A5, B1, B2, C1–C3, D1)
• Marco Ferradini – background vocals (A1, A5, B1, B2, C2, C3)
• Aida Castignola – background vocals (C1, D1)
• Lella Esposito – background vocals (C1, D1)
• Gianni Farè – background vocals (C1, D1)
• Gigi Ferro – background vocals (C1, D1)
• Linda Wesley – background vocals (C1, D1)
• Gigi Cappellotto – bass (A1–A3, A5, B1, B3, C3–C5, D2, D3)
• Dino D'Autorio – bass (A4, B4, C2, D4)
• Franco Testa – bass (B2)
• Cosimo Fabiano – bass (C1, D1)
• Flaviano Cuffari – drums (A1–A3, A5, B1–B4, C1, C3–C5, D1, D2, D4)
• Bruno Bergonzi – drums (A4, C2), electronic drum, programming
• Rolando Ceragioli – drums (D3)
• Paolo Gianolio – guitar (A4, C1, C2, D1)
• Sergio Farina – guitar (A4, C1, C2, D1)
• Gigi Tonet – keyboards (A3, A5)
• Aldo Banfi – keyboards (A1–A5, B1–B4, C1–C5, D1, D2, D4)
• Pino Nicolosi – keyboards (A4, C2)
• Maurizio Preti – percussion (B1, B3, C3, C5)
• Nuccio Rinaldis – recording, mixing
• Sandro Caroli – recording (D3)
• Claudio Pascoli – saxophone (C2, D2)
• Rudy Migliardi – trombone (A4, C2, D1, D2)
• Pier Luigi Mucciolo – trumpet (D2)

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. ^[1]

Charts

Chart performance for Italiana

Chart (1982–1983)	Peak position
Italian Albums ( Billboard ) [7]	11
Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [8]	6

References

1. Mina (1982). Italiana (booklet). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 7030/1.
2. Italiana, Vol. 1 at AllMusic. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
3. "Morirò per te/Oggi è nero". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
4. Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Grafe.it. ISBN   9788893720885.
5. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic .
6. "Caetano Veloso". Archived from the original on 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
7. "Hits of the World" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 95, no. 7. 19 February 1982. p. 58. ISSN   0006-2510.
8. Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN   978-1094705002.

External links

• Italiana at Discogs (list of releases)