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Frutta e verdura

Frutta e verdura is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1973 by PDU and originally distributed by EMI Italiana as a double album along with Amanti di valore.[4] This pair of albums spent eight consecutive weeks at the first place of the Italian chart.[5]

Frutta e verdura
Studio album by
Mina
Released23 October 1973 (1973-10-23)
Recorded1972–1973
Studio
Genre
Length38:50
LanguageItalian
LabelPDU
Mina chronology
Del mio meglio n. 2
(1973) 		Frutta e verdura
(1973) 		Amanti di valore
(1973)
Singles from Frutta e verdura
  1. "E poi..."
    Released: October 1973[3]

Track listing edit

Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Fa qualcosa"
3:58
2."Non tornare più"
4:42
3."Devo tornare a casa mia"Luigi Clausetti3:50
4."Domenica sera"
3:20
5."La vigilia di Natale"
3:38
Total length:19:28
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Questo sì, questo no"
4:20
2."E poi..."
  • Lo Vecchio
  • Shapiro
4:47
3."Dichiarazione d'amore"
3:00
4."La pioggia di marzo (Aguas de Março)"
3:40
5."Tentiamo ancora"
3:35
Total length:19:22

Personnel edit

  • Mina – vocals
  • Pino Presti – arrangement (A1, A4–B5)
  • Dario Baldan Bembo – arrangement (A2)
  • Natale Massara [it] – arrangement (A3)
  • Nuccio Rinaldis – sound engineering
  • Mario Carulli – recording (A3)
  • Mauro Balletti – photography
  • Luciano Tallarini – artwork, design

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[2]

Charts edit

Chart performance for Frutta e verdura and Amanti di valore
Chart (1974) Peak
position
Italian Albums (Billboard)[6] 2
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[5] 1
Chart performance for Frutta e verdura
Chart (1974) Peak
position
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[5] 2

Cover versions edit

Some of the songs of this album have been recorded in different languages by Mina during the 1970s. "Non tornare più" was covered and released in French ("Les oiseaux reviennent") in a 1974 as a single. "Devo tornare a casa mia" was covered in 1975 in Spanish, "Debo volver ya con los mios", as well as "Questo sì, questo no" ("Esto sì, esto no"). "Domenica sera" has three different versions: in Spanish ("Domingo a la noche"), in German ("Die Liebe am Sonntag") and in English ("Don't Ask Me To Love You"). "E poi..." was recorded in other four languages: English ("Runaway"), Spanish ("¿Y que?""), french ("Et puis ça sert à quoi") and German ("Und dann"). There is also versions of the song in 1992 album Sorelle Lumière, in which the song was mixed with Riccardo Cocciante's "Un nuovo amico".

References edit

  1. ^ "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b Mina (1973). Frutta e verdura (liner notes). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 5069. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  3. ^ "E poi.../Non tornare più". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  4. ^ 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. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  5. ^ a b c Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). Amazon Digital Services LLC – Kdp Print Us. pp. 225–228. ISBN 978-1094705002.
  6. ^ Ruscitto, Geramno (25 May 1974). "Hits of the World – Italy" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 86, no. 21. p. 64. ISSN 0006-2510.

External links edit

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