Danny Marino

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Danny Marino (born March 29, 1936 as Salvatore Mezzasalma in Tunis ; † September 16, 2003 in Hamburg ) was a Tunisian-Italian chanson and pop singer and songwriter who worked mainly in Germany . He was also the founder of the major cabaret Danny’s Pan .

biography

Salvatore Mezzasalma, his real name, was born to a French mother and an Italian father in Tunis and grew up in Tunisia until he was 16 . He later studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris . To finance his studies, Marino played music with a friend in various bars and nightclubs in the evenings. With an Italian dance combo he moved to Hamburg in the mid-1950s. Danny Marino, as he was now called, received a permanent engagement as a singer and entertainer in the renowned dance bar Tarantella in the Hamburg Hotel Esplanade (today Casino Esplanade ). In the summer months he also appeared on cruise ships.

In 1957, Heliodor , a subsidiary of Polydor , noticed the likeable and linguistically gifted singer. The label, whose records are cheaper than those of the parent company, released five singles with covers of international hits by Brook Benton , Tony Dallara and Domenico Modugno as well as two compositions by Gerhard Winkler . The piece Je suis comme ça - This is how I am , composed by Martin Böttcher in 1958 , and which Marino sang in the film Dirty Angel , was only released on record in 2007.

From 1959 Danny Marino was under contract with the record label Metronome , where he also mostly recorded wanderlust hits, including the chanson Mackie Messer . But the three hits and chanson singles published by Ariola in 1960/1961 did not appear in the sales hit parades either. After all, Marino was able to take part in the preliminary decision for the 1961 German Schlager Festival with the title Die Welt hat seven Wunder (music and text: Heinz Korn ) published there . During the same period he recorded some EPs for the French market under the name Jacques Danny in Paris. This, as well as his last two German-speaking singles with Polydor from 1963, received positive reviews. Even so, Marino was denied listings in the charts.

Danny Marino's grave at the Ohlsdorf cemetery. Grave tray K 28, 56

In 1962 Marino founded the Danny's Pan restaurant in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel together with his brother Fabio and his wife . In 1966 it moved to the Leder-Schüler office building in Hamburg. The artist club has developed into a major national attraction for the German songwriter and folk scene. Reinhard Mey , Hannes Wader , Insterburg & Co. , Otto Waalkes and Mike Krüger celebrated their first successes in the "Pan" . A little later, branches were founded in Berlin , Düsseldorf and Munich ( Song-Parnass in Unionsbräu ). Danny Marino performed his own translations of chansons by Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens , which earned him the title of ambassador of the chanson in Hamburg . In 1966 he took the long-playing record The Bad Reputation - Danny sings chansons by Georges Brassens , which made him famous overnight and with which he landed on the bestseller list for long-playing records.

When the success of the eateries waned significantly, they were gradually closed in the 1970s. In the mid-1990s, Marino moved to Morocco , where he ran an advertising agency in Agadir . In September 2003 the impoverished Marino died after a long illness in the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . Companions and friends donated his final resting place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery . With the proceeds of a benefit event , a tombstone was also purchased in 2006.

Discography (selection)

Singles (Germany)

  • Gin-Gin-Gin Gino / Toreador (1958; Heliodor )
  • Bambina / Stay with me, Forestiere (1958; Heliodor)
  • Yes, that's Italia / Musica, Musica (1958; Heliodor)
  • Street boys of Napoli / Stars must wander (1958; Heliodor)
  • Come Prima / O Rondinella (1959; Heliodor)
  • When the clouds move / Tanze Mathilda (1959/1960; Metronome )
  • Mäckie Messer / Maliziusella (1959/1960; metronomes)
  • Carissima / Conchita Rosita (1959/1960; metronomes)
  • Adieu, Adieu, Auf Wiedersehen / Der Franzos' from Paris (1959/1960; Metronome)
  • The Unlucky Raven / Al Ca (1959/1960; Metronome)
  • You are so young / Mais Oui, Mais Oui (1960; Ariola )
  • Carolina Dai / Mary Miller (1961; Ariola)
  • The world has seven wonders / Ten minutes left ... (1961; Ariola)
  • Sascha / Santa Fé (1963; Polydor )
  • Blue Bayou / Soon the lights go out (1963; Polydor)
  • Das Bitstück / Das Lenchen (1968; Metronome)
  • Give me your hand / Kanaille (1974; Antagon)

CDs

LPs

  • The Bad Reputation - Danny sings chansons by Georges Brassens (1966)
  • Danny's songs No. 1 (Chansons by Winfried Siebert and Danny Marino) 1973
  • But with time (German chansons) 1978

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article645623/Musiklegende-Danny-Marino-tot.html
  2. ↑ Parisian atmosphere . In: Hamburger Abendblatt No. 106 of May 7, 1966, page 5.

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personal data
SURNAME Marino, Danny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mezzasalma, Salvatore (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Tunisian singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 2003
Place of death Hamburg