La Mina

La Mina
Studio album by Mina
Released	October 1975 (1975-10)
Recorded	1975
Studio	La Basilica, Milan [1]
Genre	Pop
Length	40:18
Language	Italian
Label	PDU
Mina chronology
Minacantalucio (1975) La Mina (1975) Singolare (1976)
Singles from La Mina
"L'importante è finire" Released: 1975

La Mina is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1975 by PDU and distributed by EMI Italiana initially as double album with Minacantalucio . ^{[2] [3]}

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Uappa"	Luigi Albertelli Enrico Riccardi	3:20
2.	"Ti accetto come sei"	Gino Paoli Lorenzo Raggi Armando Brenna	3:54
3.	"Quasi come musica (A Song for You)"	Leon Russell Gino Paoli Claudio Daiano	4:19
4.	"Racconto (C'est comme l'arc en ciel)"	Hubert Giraud Pierre Delanoë Bruno Lauzi	3:47
5.	"Signora più che mai"	Fabio Massimo Cantini Franca Evangelisti	4:47
Total length:			20:04

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Immagina un concerto"	Andrea Lo Vecchio Shel Shapiro	4:13
2.	"L'importante è finire"	Cristiano Malgioglio Alberto Anelli	3:21
3.	"Come un uomo (Comme un homme)"	Giraud Delanoë Lauzi	3:07
4.	"Tu no"	Cantini Evangelisti Antonio Coggio	6:08
5.	"Di già"	Lo Vecchio Shapiro	3:25
Total length:			20:14

Personnel

• Mina – vocals
• Enrico Riccardi – arrangement (A1)
• Pino Presti – arrangement (A2, A3, B2, B5)
• Gabriel Yared – arrangement (A4, B3)
• Toto Torquati – arrangement (A5, B4)
• Shel Shapiro – arrangement (B1)
• Nuccio Rinaldis – sound engineer
• Mauro Balletti – photography
• Luciano Tallarini – cover art

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. ^[4]

Charts

Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for La Mina and Minacantalucio Chart (1976) Peak position Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [5] 3 Weekly chart performance for La Mina Chart (1976) Peak position Italian Albums ( Billboard ) [6] 5 Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [5] 5

Year-end charts Year-end chart performance for La Mina and Minacantalucio Chart (1976) Position Italian Albums (Musica e dischi) [7] 5

References

1. "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
2. Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). "Numero Uno". Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Graphe.it Edizioni. p. 34. ISBN   9788893720885. Archived from the original on 23 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
3. Mina (1975). La Mina/Minacantalucio (liner notes). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 6036/37. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
4. Mina (1975). La Mina (liner notes). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 6037. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
5. Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN   978-1094705002.
6. "Hits of the World" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 88, no. 9. 28 February 1976. p. 61. ISSN   0006-2510 . Retrieved 19 May 2024.
7. Anzelmo, Francesco; Bellavita, Andrea; Facchinotti, Lorenzo (2007). "Classifica 1976". In Colombo, Fausto (ed.). Gli Anni delle Cose: Media e società italiana negli anni settanta (in Italian). Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell’Università Cattolica. p. 113. ISBN   9788883110634.

External links

• La Mina at Discogs (list of releases)