Cuore_matto

Cuore matto

Cuore matto

1967 single by Little Tony

"Cuore matto" (transl. "Crazy Heart") is a song composed by Armando Ambrosino and Totò Savio, and performed by Little Tony. The song premiered at the seventeenth Sanremo Music Festival, in which Little Tony presented the song in couple with Mario Zelinotti.[1]

Quick Facts Single by Little Tony, from the album Questo mondo non mi va ...

The single peaked at first place for nine consecutive weeks on the Italian hit parade.[2][3] It sold in excess of a million copies and was awarded a gold disc in May 1967.[4]

The song also named a film, Cuore matto... matto da legare , directed by Mario Amendola and starred by the same Little Tony and by Eleonora Brown.[5]

The song was later covered by several artists, including Dalida, Gianni Morandi, Teruhiko Saigō, Fausto Leali and Kati Kovács. It was also used in several films, notably Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged[6] and Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education.[7]

Track listing

  • 7" single – Ld A 7500
  1. "Cuore matto" (Armando Ambrosino, Totò Savio)
  2. "Gente che mi parla di te" (Little Tony, Mario Capuano, Tony Cucchiara)

Charts

More information Chart (1967), Peak position ...

References

  1. [1]
    Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 978-8863462296.
  2. [2]
    Dario Salvatori (1989). Storia dell'Hit Parade. Gramese, 1989. ISBN 8876054391.
  3. [3]
    "Addio all'Elvis italiano E' morto Little Tony, mister "Cuore matto"". Libero. 28 May 2013. Archived from the original on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  4. [4]
    Joseph Murrells (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). Barrie and Jenkins Ltd., 1978. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
  5. [5]
    Roberto Poppi; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.
  6. [6]
    Fabien S. Gerard; Thomas Jefferson Kline; Bruce H. Sklarew (2000). Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2000. ISBN 1578062055.
  7. [7]
    Leonardo Godano, Matteo Nucci (12 April 2007). "La Mala di Pedro". Film.it. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  8. [8]
    "Hits of the World" (PDF). Billboard. 27 May 1967.
  9. [9]
    "I singoli più venduti del 1967". Hit Parade Italia.
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