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Gordon Cliff and Parlami d’amore Mariu’

mariu39 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:37:53 +0000

My friends “Dispositivo per il lancio obliquo di una sferetta” sent me this picture on Myspace. I thought that I liked it very much, and that maybe I should cut my hair this way, but, I didn’t know anything about it.
So I started searching for some informations, and I found out that this is Gordon Cliff’s record cover and Gordon Cliff was Luigi Tenco’ pseudonym.
Luigi Tenco used to like very much Nat King Cole, and in 1960 recorded my song singing like him, half in english and half in italian.

Ehm…

mariu39 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:50:06 +0000

I know I haven’t been writing at all in these days, but I’m still here. Famous songs charracters never disappear! I didn’t have time for Internet, but I kept looking for informations about Parlami d’amore Mariu’!I discovered a lot of versions of my songs, also thanks to my Myspace friends. I’ll soon talk about all of them.

See you

THE BEGINNING OF IT ALL

mariu39 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:27:46 +0000

Maybe you’re asking youself when it all started with “Parlami d’amore Mariu’. It was written in 1932, and it was included in the movie “Gli uomini che Mascalzoni”, where it was performed by the great italian actor Vittorio De Sica.

The movie was about a young driver who loose his job because he falls in love with a girl (Mariuccia). It was part of a trilogy, with Il conte Max and Grandi Magazzini.

I have only a short cut, but I’d like to share it with you:
GLI UOMINI CHE MASCALZONI
The man who wrote my song is known as the inventor of the italian song, and his name is Cesare Andrea Bixio. He wrote many other popular italian song, which have been sung all over the world for decades. I can mention “Mamma”, “Vivere”, “Violino tzigano”, “Portami tante rose”…Maybe there’s someone who has at least one of this songs in his iPod. I’d be very pleased to meet him!

One of Bixio’s masterpieces, “La canzone dell’amore”, was the soundtrack of the first italian spoken movie. I’ve no information about it and I’d like to learn more. Maybe there’s someone who can help me…

JAZZMARIU’

mariu39 — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:54:31 +0000

Hello everyone. I’ll tell you something more about a version of “Parlami d’amore Mariu’” I like very much. It’s performed by Enrico Rava, and it was included in a show created to celebrate Fred Buscaglione and Italy in the 50s. Beside Enrico Rava, the show saw the partecipation of Stefano Bollani, Gianmaria Testa and “La Band Osiris”.

I particularly appreciate this version, beacuse it’s full of jazz typical elements, but it doesn’t betray the real nature of the song, and the atmosphere it’s meant to evocate.

You can find it on my Myspace.

My blog…

mariu39 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:07:27 +0000

Hey guys, here I am again! After and during the Myspace experience, I decided to try this one too. Despite of my age, I’m fond of new technologies, I think they’re amazing and they permit me to talk to a lot of people and to make a lot of new friends. This is because I’m always young, thanks to the people who keep singing’ my song, and make it last in years.

I’d like to thank everyone who supported me on Myspace and hope they’ll start to read this blog too.

Even if people often ask me too, I won’t talk about love here. I’ll talk about my song, which I think is a very important part of the history of Italian music. I’ll show you things you probably don’t know about it, and hope you’ll do the same. I’m always looking for version of the song I don’t know, for pictures, videos and any kind of material you can think of.

I’ll write more tomorrow, hope to receive a lot of comments.

See you,

Mariù