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"Se telefonando" (transl. "If, by calling on the telephone") is a song performed by Italian singer Mina, released in May 1966. The music was composed, orchestrated and conducted by Ennio Morricone to Italian lyrics by Ghigo De Chiara and Maurizio Costanzo. The song was written for an episode of the Aria condizionata Sunday morning television programme.

"Se telefonando"
Single by Mina
from the album Studio Uno 66
B-side"No"
ReleasedMay 1966
GenrePop
Length2:58
LabelRi-Fi Record Company
Composer(s)Ennio Morricone
Lyricist(s)
Producer(s)Ennio Morricone

It was a standout track of Mina's Studio Uno 66, the fifth-biggest-selling album of the year 1966 in Italy, which sold over a million copies worldwide.[1]

Morricone's sophisticated arrangement of "Se telefonando" combined melodic trumpet lines, Hal Blaine-style drumming, a string set, a '60s Europop female choir, and intensive subsonic-sounding trombones. The main theme of the song thrills around just three notes, taken from the siren of a police car in Marseilles.[2] The Italian hit parade #7 song featured eight transitions of tonality building tension throughout the chorus. In late 1966, Mina recorded an English version of the song for United Artists' release in English-speaking countries.[3]

In the reader's poll conducted by the la Repubblica newspaper to celebrate Mina's 70th anniversary in 2010, 30,000 voters picked the track as the best song ever recorded by Mina.[4]


Cover versions


During the following decades, the song was covered by several performers in Italy and abroad, most notably by Françoise Hardy (in French "Je changerais d'avis" and in English "I Will Change My Life"), Iva Zanicchi (1966), Orietta Berti (2003), Delta V (2005), Claudio Baglioni, Vanessa and the O's (2007), Neil Hannon (2008), Cheryl Porter [it] (2008) and Etta Scollo (2011).[5]

In February 2015, the Italian singer Nek won with his cover of "Se telefonando" the award for "Best Cover" during the Sanremo Music Festival 2015.[6][7] Nek's version of the song sold over 50,000 copies in Italy.[8] On November of the same year, Franco Battiato also inserted his own cover of the song in the album Anthology – Le nostre anime.


References


  1. "Top annuali album". HitParadeItalia.it (in Italian). Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  2. "Se telefonando". HitParadeItalia.it (in Italian). Retrieved 27 June 2007.
  3. "Top 10 List to Mark RSI's Bow in Italy". Billboard. Vol. 78, no. 51. 17 December 1966.
  4. Castaldo, Gino (25 March 2010). "E Mamma Mina cestinò i complimenti dei Beatles". La Repubblica (in Italian).
  5. "Se telefonando". Mon-amie-hardy-rose.nice-topic.com (in French). Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  6. Suriani, Samantha (13 February 2015). "Sanremo 2015, Nek re della serata cover con "Se telefonando"". VelvetMusic (in Italian). Metup.it. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  7. "Sanremo: Nek vince la serata delle cover". Radio Italia (in Italian). 13 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  8. "Se Telefonando". latinpopbrasil.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). 16 May 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2016.



На других языках

- [en] Se telefonando

[ru] Se telefonando

«Se telefonando» (с итал. — «Если бы позвонив») — песня, записанная итальянской певицей Миной в 1966 году.


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