Eldo di Lazzaro

Eldo di Lazzaro (born February 1902 in Trivento , Campobasso province , † 1968 in Genoa ) was an Italian singer and composer of light music and film music .

Life

In 1939 he published the hit Reginella campagnola , which became so successful that it became the basis of the homeland film Am Abend auf der Heide by director Jürgen von Alten , which was produced in Germany in 1941 . In the USA the song was also known under the name The Woodpecker Song and u. a. sung and recorded by Kate Smith during the war in 1940 with The Andrews Sisters and the Glenn Miller Orchestra . Other performers were Tino Rossi , Rudi Schuricke , Glenn Miller , Will Glahé , Ernst Mosch , Frank Sinatra , the Everly Brothers and others. a.

Reginella campagnola (Evening on the Heath, The Woodpecker Song) (1939)
La Piccinina (Das blonde Käthchen) , (1939), recorded by Carlo Buti , Rudi Schuricke , Barnabás von Géczy , Adalbert Lutter a . a.
Rosabella del molise (1942), recorded by Ernesto Bonino a . a.
Valzer di ogni bambina (1943), used the notte in the film Incontri

Chitarra romana , recorded by Claudio Villa , Connie Francis u. a.

Carioca, Carioca ... ! recorded by Carlo Buti u. a.

La Carovana del Tigrai

Sul lago Tana

La romanina

Siciliana bruna

Pastorella abruzzese

personal data
SURNAME	Di Lazzaro, Eldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian singer and composer of light music and film music
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trivento , Campobasso
DATE OF DEATH	1968
Place of death	Genoa