Italia (label)

Italia brand LP label

Italia was a German record brand that specialized in Italian performers . The brand was created by the Munich music publisher and record producer Dr. Karl Heinz Busse and was distributed by Metronome .

history

Italia records were released in Germany between 1962 and 1966. The record brand achieved its greatest sales success with recordings by Gigliola Cinquetti (1964: Non ho l'età ) and Peppino di Capri (1962: “St. Tropez Twist”).

Most of the recordings on Italia records were released in the Federal Republic with permits from the Italian record brands Carisch, CGD and Dischi ricordi (all based in Milan ). There were also licenses in which the Italian interpreters sang German songs: either they were German versions of Italian hits or they were purely German productions. In the latter, Henry Mayer was mostly responsible for the music and Kurt Hertha for the text.

In addition to a few long-playing records and EPs , the focus at Italia was on the production of single records.

Artist

• Gigliola Cinquetti
• Wilma Goich
• Betty Curtis
• Kessler twins
• Caterina Caselli
• Anna Marchetti
• Ito Yukari
• Peppino di Capri
• Piero Focaccia
• Fraternity Brothers
• Tony Dallara
• Henry Wright
• Nini Rosso
• Gino Paoli
• Equipe 84

literature

• Andreas W. Herkendell: " Italia - Reconstruction of a record brand based on its products", in: Appropriation forms of popular music , ed. v. Dietmar Elflein and Bernhard Weber, transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3856-1 .

Web links

• Italia on www.schallplattenbar.de
• Italia on www.discogs.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Music market . 2, 1962, p. 4.