Nico Fidenco
Nico Fidenco (actually Domenico Colarossi ; born January 24, 1933 in Rome ) is an Italian singer and composer who has worked a lot for the cinema.
Life
Fidenco began studying medicine in 1953, but soon broke it off and enrolled at the centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia . As an assistant director he worked on several documentaries and with Franco Brusati . He celebrated his first successes as a singer in the early 1960s; already his first hit was a film song, Su nel cielo from the movie Dangerous nights of Franco Maselli . Other titles, often Italian cover versions of successful film songs, which Fidenco, who had learned to play the piano as an autodidact, recorded, followed. In the period from 1960 to 1971 alone, he published around 40 singles. By early 1963 he had sold more than a million records. He was responsible for the soundtrack for more than 65 films, including twelve spaghetti westerns , and in later years for exploitation films . His music is described as "heated and serious, fun and funky". Fidenco mostly worked with a small cast, consisting of keyboards and guitars that shape the sound as well as (often exotic) percussion and discreetly used winds and strings, often with trumpet solos for the westerns. He was influenced u. a. by Alessandro Alessandroni , with whom he also worked frequently.
At the Sanremo Festival in 1967 Fidenco appeared together with the singer Cher , but could not reach the finals with Ma piano (per non svegliarti) . From 1984 to 1994 he formed I Super 4 with Riccardo Del Turco , Jimmy Fontana and Gianni Meccia ; In addition to their repertoire, the quartet presented a new LP in 1985, which had moderate success.
Single releases (selection)
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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IT | |||
1960 | What a Sky (Su nel cielo) |
IT1 (18 weeks) IT |
RCA Italiana N 1109
|
1961 | Just the same old line |
IT5 (14 weeks) IT |
|
Il mondo di Suzie Wong |
IT1 (28 weeks) IT |
RCA Italiana PM 1144
B-side: Tornerai… Suzie |
|
Legata a un granello di sabbia |
IT1 (22 weeks) IT |
RCA Italiana PM 1166
B-side: Ridi, ridi |
|
Come nasce un amore |
IT8 (6 weeks) IT |
||
1962 | Tra le piume di una rondine |
IT4 (6 weeks) IT |
|
Moon River (Colazione da Tiffany) |
IT3 (20 weeks) IT |
RCA Victor PM 3044
B-side: Audrey |
|
Lasciami il tuo sorriso |
IT5 (9 weeks) IT |
||
1963 | Se mi perderai |
IT2 (13 weeks) IT |
RCA Italiana PM 3199
B-side: Goccia di mare |
1964 | Con te sulla spiaggia |
IT5 (18 weeks) IT |
|
A casa d'Irene |
IT14 (1 week) IT |
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1965 | L'uomo che non sapeva amare |
IT5 (13 weeks) IT |
|
La voglia di ballare |
IT11 (2 weeks) IT |
Filmography (selection)
- 1965: Pistoleros (All'ombra di una colt)
- 1966: Dinamita Jim
- 1966: Lanky Fellow - The Lonely Avenger (Per il gusto di uccidere)
- 1966: The Texas Man (The Texican)
- 1967: Bang Bang Kid (Bang bang kid)
- 1967: John il Bastardo
- 1968: Django - I want him dead (Lo voglio morto)
- 1968: Django - melody in lead (Uno di più all'inferno)
- 1968: For the vultures to eat (All'ultimo sangue)
- 1971: His name was Pot - but they called him Hallelujah (Il suo nome er a Pot… ma… lo chiamavano Allegria)
- 1973: Four devil guys (Campa carogna… la taglia cresce)
- 1975: teenagers love hot (blue jeans)
- 1975: Black Emanuelle ( Emanuelle nera )
- 1976: Black Emanuelle 2nd part (Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage)
- 1976: Black Emanuelle - Hours of Wild Lust (Emanuelle in America)
- 1977: Emanuela - All the lusts of this world (Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne?)
- 1977: Naked among cannibals (Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali)
- 1977: Yellow Emanuelle (Il mondo dei sensi di Emy Wong)
- 1978: White girls' slave market (La via della prostituzione)
- 1980: Orgasmo Nero III - Black skin on white sand (Sesso nero)
- 1980: Zombies among cannibals (Zombi holocaust)
- 1981: Island of Zombies (porn holocaust)
Web links
- Nico Fidenco in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry on discogs
Individual evidence
- ^ Billboard, September 21, 1963, p. 52
- ^ Kristopher Spencer: Film and Television Scores 1950–1979. 2008, p. 122
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 520
- ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on July 3, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fidenco, Nico |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Colarossi, Domenico (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian singer and composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |