Mina 25

Mina 25
Studio album by Mina
Released	October 1983 (1983-10)
Recorded	1983
Studio	Studi PDU, Lugano
Genre	Europop [1] jazz [2]
Length	77:00
Language	Italian English Neapolitan Spanish
Label	PDU
Mina chronology
Del mio meglio n. 7 (1983) Mina 25 (1983) Catene (1984)
Singles from Mina 25
"Devi dirmi di sì" Released: November 1983

Mina 25 (or simply 25) is double studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1983 by PDU and distributed by EMI Italiana. ^[3]

Overview

The celebration of the anniversary of Mina's career coincided with the thirtieth anniversary of the RAI broadcasting company, which offered the singer a collaboration. Mina's songs from this album, as well as her comments, were used as the soundtrack to Paolo Frajese's Trent'anni della nostra storia (Thirty Years of Our History). The first issue of the program covered the history of the channel from 1945 to 1955, so the singer recorded songs from this period. This was the first such work, and three more albums will be released in the following years: Catene (1984), Finalmente ho conosciuto il conte Dracula... (1985) and Sì, buana (1986).

The song Verde luna had already been included on the album Salomè and was re-recorded for this album.

To support the album, the single "Devi dirmi di sì" was released with the song "La controsamba" on the b-side. ^[4] The song was a success with listeners and reached the 7th place in the singles chart. ^[5] The album itself debuted at the twenty-second position on the weekly albums chart, and in the fourth week of its stay reached the peak eighth position. In total, the album spent a total of 14 weeks there. ^[6]

Critical reception

Christian Calabrese from Musica e dischi gave a positive assessment of the album, calling the songs very beautiful, mostly because of the authors with whom Mina has been collaborating for a long time and who know her style. ^[7]

Track listing

Volume 1

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Only You"	Buck Ram Ande Rand	3:15
2.	"Nature Boy"	Eden Ahbez	3:34
3.	"Che bambola!"	Leo Chiosso Fred Buscaglione	2:44
4.	"Sophisticated Lady"	Duke Ellington	3:50
5.	"Ho un sassolino nella scarpa"	Marcello Valci	2:58
6.	"Chattanooga Choo-Choo"	Harry Warren Mack Gordon	3:10
Total length:			19:31

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A chi (Hurt)"	Mogol Jimmie Crane Art Jacobs	3:02
2.	"Che m'è 'mparato a fà"	Dino Verde Armando Trovajoli	3:38
3.	"Amore baciami"	Giancarlo Testoni Carlo Alberto Rossi	4:09
4.	"Misty"	Erroll Garner Johnny Burke	4:16
5.	"Bellezze in bicicletta"	Giovanni D'Anzi Marcello Marchesi	2:30
6.	"Verde luna"	Vicente Gomez	2:35
Total length:			20:10

Volume 2

Side C

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Devi dirmi di sì"	Massimiliano Pani Valentino Alfano Piero Cassano	4:16
2.	"Allora sì"	Franco Califano Massimo Guantini	4:14
3.	"Non ho difese"	Giorgio Calabrese Celso Valli	4:08
4.	"Cowboys"	Ivano Fossati	1:51
5.	"Magia"	Andrea Lo Vecchio Gino Mescoli	4:20
Total length:			18:49

Side D

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"La controsamba"	Calabrese Valli	5:08
2.	"Giuro di dirti la verità"	Cristiano Malgioglio Corrado Castellari	4:27
3.	"Un'aquila nel cuore"	Anselmo Genovese	3:35
4.	"Ahi, mi' amor (Romance de curro "El Palmo")"	Paolo Limiti Joan Manuel Serrat	6:15
Total length:			19:25

Personnel

• Mina – vocals

• Victor Bach – arrangement (A1–B6), strings, wind instruments, keyboard
• Massimiliano Pani – arrangement (C1), background vocals
• Celso Valli – arrangement (C2, C3, C5–D3), keyboard
• Mario Robbiani – arrangement (C4, D4), strings, keyboard
• Piero Cassano – background vocals
• Lella Esposito – background vocals
• Giulia Fasolino – background vocals
• Gianni Ferrio – background vocals
• Naimy Hackett – background vocals
• Germano Melotti – background vocals
• Silvio Pozzoli – background vocals
• Wanda Radicchi – background vocals
• Gigi Cappellotto – bass
• Paolo Gianolio – bass
• Massimo Moriconi – bass
• Hugo Heredia – clarinet
• Paolo Tomelleri – clarinet
• Ellade Bandini – drums, percussion
• Bruno Bergonzi – drums
• Rolando Ceragioli – drums
• Flaviano Cuffari – drums
• Walter Scebran – drums, percussion
• Sergio Farina – guitar
• Angel "Pato" Garcia – guitar
• Paolo Gianolio – guitar
• Ernesto Massimo Verardi – guitar
• Bruno De Filippi – harmonica
• Simonne Sporck – harp
• Maurizio Preti – percussion
• Aldo Banfi – synthesizer

Charts

Chart performance for Mina 25

Chart (1983–1984)	Peak position
Italian Albums ( Billboard ) [8]	16
Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [6]	8

References

1. Mina – Mina 25 at AllMusic
2. "Mina e il jazz". Jazz Convention (in Italian). 17 December 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
3. Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Grafe.it. ISBN   9788893720885.
4. "Devi dirmi di sì/La controsamba". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
5. Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Singoli 1960–2019 (in Italian). pp. 306–308. ISBN   9781093264906.
6. Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN   978-1094705002.
7. Calabrese, Christian (19 November 1983). "Mina 25". Musica e dischi (in Italian). ISSN   0027-4526.
8. Ruscitto, Germano (14 January 1984). "Hits of the World – Italy" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 96, no. 2. p. 56. ISSN   0006-2510.

External links

• Mina 25 at Discogs (list of releases)