Ridi pagliaccio

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Ridi pagliaccio
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Studio album by
Mina
Released20 October 1988 (1988-10-20)
Recorded1988
StudioStudi PDU, Lugano
Genre
Length81:20
Language
Label PDU
Mina chronology
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(1988)		Ridi pagliaccio
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Ridi pagliaccio is a double studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 20 October 1988 by PDU and distributed by EMI Italiana.

Contents

Overview

With this album, the singer celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of her creative activity.

The album was released as a double on vinyl, cassette and CD in two volumes as usual. Separately it was distributed only on cassettes. The album debuted at number five on the Italian albums chart. In its third week, it peaked at number two. The album spent fifteen weeks in the top ten, and nineteen weeks in total on the chart. [3] On the pan-European Music & Media' chart, the album rose to the fifty-first position. [4]

The cover art was created by Mauro Baletti. [5] In 2018, especially for Vogue magazine, the most vivid images of Mina were recreated, including the cover of the album Ridi pagliaccio. The model was Karen Elson. [6]

Track listing

Volume 1
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Il portiere di notte" Enrico Ruggeri Ruggeri5:37
2."Moody's Mood" Eddie Jefferson James Moody 2:27
3."Canzoni stonate" Mogol Aldo Donati 3:53
4."This Masquerade" Leon Russell Russell4:23
5."Into the Groove" Madonna Stephen Bray 5:02
6."It's Impossible (Somos novios)" Sid Wayne Armando Manzanero 2:57
7."Un'ora" Antonio Amurri Bruno Canfora 3:27
8."You'll Never Never Know"
  • Robi
  • Williams
  • Miles
2:53
9."La compagnia"Mogol Carlo Donida Labati 5:02
10."I Left My Heart in San Francisco"Douglass Cross George Cory 3:10
11."Noi due nel mondo e nell'anima"Valerio Negrini Roby Facchinetti 4:25
Total length:43:16
Volume 2
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Ridi pagliaccio" Ruggero Leoncavallo Leoncavallo2:12
2."Das Kind ist in dem Teller"  Massimiliano Pani 1:12
3."Lui, lui, lui" Paolo Limiti Pani4:16
4."È Natale"Valentino AlfanoPani4:20
5."L'ultimo gesto di un clown"
  • Limiti
  • Moreno Ferrara
 Gianfranco Fasano 4:03
6."Dalai"Samuele Cerri Randy Jackson 3:51
7."Un tipo indipendente"
  • Pani
  • Alberto De Martini
Pani5:03
8."Cuore, amore, cuore"LimitiPani4:25
9."Bignè"Alfano Pino Presti 4:06
10."Rimani qui" Giorgio Calabrese Randy Jackson4:16
Total length:37:44

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Ridi pagliaccio
Chart (1988)Peak
position
European Albums ( Music & Media ) [4] 51
Italian Albums ( Musica e dischi ) [3] 2

References

  1. ↑ Mina - Ridi Pagliaccio, Vols. 1-2 at AllMusic. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Mina e il jazz". Jazz Convention (in Italian). 17 December 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN   978-1094705002.
  4. 1 2 "European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media . Vol. 5, no. 44. 26 November 1988. p. 48. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2021.
  5. ↑ Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Grafe.it. ISBN   9788893720885.
  6. ↑ Maccari, Maria (21 September 2018). "Da Gisele a Maria Carla Boscono a Carla Bruni: omaggio a Mina su Vogue Italia". Vogue Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 8 June 2023.
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