Nuda (song)

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"Nuda"
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Single by Mina
from the album Singolare
LanguageItalian
B-side "Colpa mia"
ReleasedMay 1976 (1976-05)
Recorded13 May 1976 (1976-05-13) [1]
Studio La Basilica, Milan [2]
Genre Pop
Length4:00
Label PDU
Songwriter(s) Don Backy
Mina singles chronology
"L'importante è finire"
(1975)		"Nuda"
(1976)		"Giorni" / "Ormai"
(1977)

"Nuda" (English: "Naked") is a song recorded by Italian singer Mina for her 1976 album Singolare . Don Backy wrote the song, and Pino Presti did the arrangement. [3] In May 1976 the song was released as a single and peaked at number 6, having stayed on the Italian chart for 17 weeks in total. [4]

Contents

The B-side of the single was the song "Colpa mia"(English: "My Fault"), written by Gian Pieretti, Roberto Soffici and Simon Luca. It was used as the theme song of the radio program Gran varietà. [1] On 18 June 1976 Mina performed the song in a musical show Dal Ticino con simpatia on the RSI TV channel, which was broadcast from the Lugano Congress Palace with the participation of Italian musicians living in Switzerland. It was one of her last television appearances. [5]

Track listing

7" single [3]
A. "Nuda" – 4:00
B. "Colpa mia" (Gian Pieretti, Roberto Soffici, Simon Luca) – 4:02

Charts

Chart performance for "Nuda"
Chart (1976)Peak
position
Italy ( Billboard ) [6] 10
Italy ( Musica e dischi ) [4] 6

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References

  1. 1 2 "Nuda/Colpa mia". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  2. ↑ "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 Mina (1976). Nuda (liner notes). Italy: PDU. P.A. 1112. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  4. 1 2 Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Singoli 1960–2019 (in Italian). Amazon Digital Services LLC – Kdp Print Us. pp. 306–308. ISBN   9781093264906.
  5. ↑ "Mina canta "Colpa mia"". RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera (in Italian). Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  6. ↑ Ruscitto, Germano (21 August 1976). "Hits of the World – Italy" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 88, no. 34. p. 56. ISSN   0006-2510.
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