Music Graffiti / Italian Beat - Covers (45rpm singles)



	Anonima Sound Fuori piove Parla tu (Anonymous Sound: Outside It's Raining It's Your Turn To Speak)		Anonima Sound L'amore mio l'amore tuo I tetti (Anonymous Sound: My Love, Your Love The Roofs)

	Antoine Pietre La felicità (Antoine: Stones The Happiness)		Le Bisce La danza della morte Una che dice sì (The Grass Snakes: Death's Dance A Girl That Says Yes)

	Bisonti La tua ombra (mi segue) Lui non vuole (The Buffalos: Your Shadow Follows Me He Doesn't Want)		Bisonti Occhi di sole Crudele (The Buffalos: Sun Eyes Cruel)

	Califfi Fogli di quaderno La bellezza (The Caliphs: Workbook's Sleeves The Beauty)		Califfi Acqua e sapone Lei non mi tradirebbe (The Caliphs: Soap and Water She Wouldn't Betray Me)

	Camaleonti Sha La La La La Tu credi in me (The Chameleons: Sha La La La La You Believe In Me)		Camaleonti Punto bianco Non cade il mondo (The Chameleons: Sha La La La La You Believe In Me)

	Camaleonti L'ora dell'amore (Homburg) Noi e gli altri (The Chameleons: Love's Time We And The Others)		Camaleonti Non c'è niente di nuovo (11) Vita facile (The Chameleons: Nothing New Here Easy Life)

	Brunetta Solo per poco tempo Dove vai? (Brunetta: For A Short Time Only Where Are You Going?)		Caterina Caselli Sono bugiarda (I'm A Believer) Incubo n.4 (Caterina Caselli: I'm A Liar Incubus N.4)

	Caterina Caselli Nessuno mi può giudicare (8) Se lo dici tu (Caterina Caselli: Nobody Can Judge Me If You Are Saying This)		Caterina Caselli Il volto della vita (9) Disperatamente io ti amo (Caterina Caselli: The Face Of The Life Desperately I Love You)

	Caterina Caselli Sole spento Il giorno (Caterina Caselli: Extint Sun The Day)		Caterina Caselli L'orologio (10) Bagnata come un pulcino (Caterina Caselli: The Clok Weat As A Chick)

	Caterina Caselli Cento giorni Tutto nero (Paint It Black) (Caterina Caselli: A Hundred Days All Black)		Catherine Spaak Prima di te ... dopo di te ... Noi due (Catherine Spaak: Before you ... After you We two)

	Catherine Spaak Quelli della mia età (Tous les garçons et les filles) Ho scherzato con il cuore (J'ai jeté mon coeur) (13)		Catherine Spaak L'esercito del surf Mi fai paura (Catherine Spaak: The Surf Army You Make Me Fear)

	Casuals Massachussetts Jennifer Brown		Cavernicoli Non hai pietà Se vuoi restare sola (The Cavemen: You Don't Have Mercy If You Prefer To Remain Alone)

	Chetro & Co Danze della sera (2) Le pietre numerate (Evening Dances Milestones)		Chetro & Co Danze della sera Le pietre numerate

	Corvi Un ragazzo di strada Datemi una lacrima per piangere (The Crows: A Boy Boen In The Streets Give Me A Tear To Cry)		Corvi Bang Bang Che notte ragazzi (The Crows: Bang Bang What A Night, Boys!)

	Corvi Quando quell'uomo ritornerà Si prega sempre quando è tardi (The Crows: When That Man Will Come Back You Always Pray When It's Too Late)		Corvi Bambolina Nemmeno una lacrima (The Crows: Little Doll Not A Single Tear)

	Delfini Tu te ne vai Domani penserai a me (The Dolphins: You Are Leavin' Think Of Me Tomorrow)		Michel Delpech L'isola di Wight (5) Wight Is Wight (The Isle Of Wight)

	Dik Dik Il vento (Mogol-Battisti) L’esquimese (Mighty Quinn – B. Dylan, Manfred Mann) (The Wind The Eskimo Man)		Dik Dik Se io fossi un falegname (Tim Hardin) Il Mondo è con noi (Mamas & Papas) (If I Were A Carpenter The World Is With Us)

	Dik Dik L'isola di Wight (5) (Wight Is Wight) Innamorato (Wight Is Wight Man In Love)		Dik Dik Zucchero Piccola arancia (Sugar Little Orange)

	Evy L'abito non fa il beatnik Good Golly Miss Molly (The Clothes Do Not Make The Beatnik)		Dino Te lo leggo negli occhi Cerca di capire (I Read It In Your Eyes Let Try To Understand)

	Don Backy L'ombra nel sole Tu piangevi (The Shadow In The Sun You Were Crying)		Don Backy Ho rimasto Sono solo (I Remained I'm Alone)


	Equipe 84 Papà e Mammà Quel che ti ho dato (Daddy And Mommy What I Gave You)		Equipe 84 Bang Bang (Cher) Auschwitz (Guccini)

	Equipe 84 Un giorno tu mi cercherai L'antisociale (One Day You Seek Me The Antisocial Man)		Equipe 84 29 settembre È dall’amore che nasce l’uomo (September 29th Thanks To The Love The Man Borns)

	Generali La vita è una battaglia Pensaci un po' (The Generals Life Is A Battle Think A Little)		Ricky Gianco La mia voce .. e quando Quanto tempo passerà (My Voice ... And When How Much Time Will Be)

	Ghigo Agosti (Ghigo) Coccinella Stazione del Rock (12) (Ladybird Rock Station)		Ghigo Agosti (Mister Anima) Non voglio pietà Solitude Time (I Don't Want Mercy)

	Ghigo Agosti (Mister Anima) La mia passeggiata Attrazione (My Walk Attraction)		Ghigo Agosti (Probus Harlem) A Whiter Shade Of Pale Hold On I'm Coming

	Giganti Tema La bomba atomica (The Giants: Literal Composition The Atomic Bomb)		Giganti Una ragazza in due Lezione di ritmo (The Giants: A Girl For Two Lesson Of Rhythm)

	Giganti Da bambino Tabù (When You Are A Child Taboo)		Giganti Proposta La tomba dell'amore (A Proposal The Grave Of The Love)

	Gianni Morandi C’era un ragazzo, che come me, amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones (4) Se perdo anche te (Once There Was A Boy That, As me, Loved The Beatles And The Rolling Stones If I Lose Even You)		Giois Questo mio mondo ... e la vita ora continua (This World Of Mine ... And The Life Goes On, Now)

	Jonathan & Michelle Occhiali da sole Ai margini del mondo (Sun Glasses At The Edge Of World)		Luigi Tenco Ciao amore ciao E se ci diranno (Bye, My Love, Bye And If They Tell Us)

	Michel Polnareff Una bambolina che fa no, no, no... La lezione del capellone (A Doll That Says No, No, No A Lesson From A Beatnick)

	Nada Ma che freddo fa Una rondine bianca (But That Is Cold, A White Swallow)		Nada Biancaneve Cuore stanco (Snow White, Tired Heart)

	Patty Pravo (14) Ragazzo triste The Pied Piper (Sad Boy)		Patty Pravo Se perdo te Lettera a Gianni (If I Will Lose You Letter To Gianni)

	Patty Pravo La bambola Se c'è l'amore (The Doll If There Is Love)		Profeti Non si muore per amore Odissea d'amore (The Prophets: You Can't Die For Love Love Odyssey)

	Quelli Tornare bambino Questa città senza te (Them: Became Child Again This Town Without You)		Riky Maiocchi Ma l'amore no Un'altra vita (But The Love, No Another Life)

	Ribelli Chi sarà la ragazza Quella donna (The Rebels Who Is The Girl? That Woman)		Ribelli Goodbye Josephine

	Ribelli Obladì Obladà Lei m'ama (She Loves Me)		Renegades Un giorno tu mi cercherai (1) Una rosa da Vienna (One Day You Seek Me A Rose From Wien)


	Renegades John Fitzgerald Kennedy Il più grande amico (The Greatest Friend)		Renegades (6) Lettere d'amore Vino e campagna (Love Letters Wine And Country)

	Roby Crispiano Quando ritorno al mio paese Il messaggio (When I Come Back To My Town The Message)		Roby Crispiano Uomini Uomini Solo io e te (Men Men Only You And Me)

	Rokes Bisogna saper perdere Non far finta di no (The Rokes: You Must Know How To Lose Do Not Pretend It Isn't True)		Rokes Ascolta nel vento Il primo sintomo (Listen In The Wind Tne First Sign)


	Rokes Che colpa abbiamo noi (3) Piangi con me (What Fault Have We? Let's Cry With Me)		Rokes Io vivrò senza te Lascia l’ultimo ballo per me (I Will Live Without You Save The Last Dance For Me)

	Rokes Che mondo strano (33 giri) (What A Strange World)		Rokes Ma che freddo fa Per te, per me (But That Is Cold For You, For Me)

	Rokes Cercate di abbracciare tutto il mondo come noi Regency Sue (Try To Embrace The Whole World, Like Us)		Rokes Eccola di nuovo Mi ricordo quando ero bambino (Here She Comes Again I Remember When I Was A Child)

	Rokketti (6) Black Time L'amaro in bocca (The Bitter Taste In The Mouth)		Ricky Shayne Stanotte Di me cosa ne sai? (Black is Black - Los Bravos) (This Night What Do You Know About Me?)

	Satelliti Babababa-ba (With A Girl Like You) Quando sei con me (When You Are With Me)		Ricky Shayne Uno dei Mods Cosa pensi di me (One Of The Mods What Do You Think Of Me)


(1)	The Renegades where a British group that soon after their first success in UK (Cadillac) started to travel and work all around Europe, mainly in Italy and in Finland. In Italy they issued many discs singing in Italian, including also a participation at the Sanremo Festival, together with the most famous Italian group (Equipe 84). Their Italian production was more sentimental and traditional than "beat" and their success in the Mediterranean country was weak, even if they were quite famous. (see their discography)
(2)	Chetro & Co was a minor group, but a remarkable one. Founded by Ettore De Carolis, after this experience he became an appreciated folk musicians with his group Il Nuovo Canzoniere del Lazio. The song on A side is indeed very close to beat genre, with some aperture to the new psychedelic mood, and it's based on a poetry work written by the famous Italian novelist, film director and poet Pierpaolo Pasolini; the B side was based on the tune Milestones of Miles Davis ("Le pietre numerate" is the translation of "milestones" in Italian). The single cover was folded on many parts and very complex, with a collage of many photos, sometimes ironic (“Il sistema compra Bob Dylan”, that is: "Bob Dylan sells itself to the system"). You can see all the photos here.
(3)	Italian cover, totally unrelated (lyrics by Mogol, the most famous Italian lyrics' author) of Bob Lind's tune Cheryl’s Going Home. It was the greater success in the whole Italian beat era. The Rokes, a British group, became after this hit the number 1 in Italy, together with the Italian group Equipe 84. (See the discography)
(4)	Gianni Morandi, the most successful Italian singer during the sixties, proposing up to then only pop songs, tried to credit himself also as a Beat singer with this disc. He was actually very young and very sympathetic with the new ideas of the sixties and, with the help of Mauro Lusini, an author of folk and beat songs, (toghether with him on the cover, on the right) he issued this song ("There was a boy that as me loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones") about Vietnam war. A not usual argument in Italy at that time, when the Italian television accurately avoided to speak explicitly of the war and of the difficulties that the US forces were facing (the Italian government was then a very loyal allied of the American one). The song was a success, entering in the Top-10, but not a huge one (Morandi was a n.1 guy). The song became anyway a "protest song" very well known in Italy, sung together during the seventies by the students. On the B-side, prudentially, the producers issued a more conventional cover from an american pop song (Solitary Man of Neil Diamond), in Italian "Se perdo anche te", that reached a more brilliant success.
(5)	The original song was the international success "Wight Is Wight" written by the French musician Michel Delpech, and inspired to the rock festival of 1968 in the South England island, with Hendrix, Doors, Who and even Miles Davis. A very slow and traditional song, anyway, totally unrelated with the event, as far as the cover showing the members of Dik Dik (one of the most famous groups in Italy) in the middle of an urban street.
(6)	Sometimes the covers of the Italian beat era were very scarse. This is an example. The Renegades are covering here two songs: the very well known "Love Letters" of Elvis Presley ("Lettere d'amore" in Italian) and The Camp of the Danish group Sir Henry & His Butlers. This was originally an instrumental tune, but was added to it new lyrics inspired to the rural life ("wine and country") following an ephemeral tendency of that period in Italian music ("Il ballo di Peppe" of the Cugini di campagna, Il Ballo di Simone of Giuliano e i notturni). Impossible to understand why the Renegades are wearing renaissance suits.
(7)	The group I Rokketti was quite appreciated in Italy during the sixties. This song is a strong R&B, an original, based on a difficult love between a black boy and a white girl.
(8)	Caterina Caselli, started her career as the bass player and singer in his group Gli Amici, and was also one of the first "queen" of the famous italian dance hall Piper Club of Rome (that started the activities on February, 1965). During the sixties she became one of the most popular female singer in Italy, together with Patty Pravo, starting with his international hit Nessuno mi può giudicare ("Nobody must judge me"), proposed at the Sanremo Festival in 1966 together with the American singer Gene Pitney. After this period and many other hits (Perdono, Cento giorni, Tutto nero, Io sono bugiarda, Il volto della vita) she started a different career, becoming the owner of one of the most important italian labels (Sugar) and the producer of Italian musicians famous in Italy and in the world, as Elisa and Andrea Bocelli.
(9)	Italian cover of the international hit Days of Pearly Spencer di David Mc William.
(10)	This song L'orologio (The clock) wasn't a success. On the B-side an interesting experiment, the song Bagnata come un pulcino sung in the dialect of Modena, the town in Emilia region in which the singer was born. In Italy they are still present many dialects, related to the Italian language but sometimes, as in this case, very difficult to understand for an Italian coming from the South or the Central regions. An interesting cover inspired to the psychedelic style.
(11)	Non c'è niente di nuovo ("Nothing new here") was the song proposed by the Camaleonti during the Cantagiro in 1967. The Cantagiro was a very popular event, inspired to the bike contests (Tour de France, Giro d'Italia) and travelling all around Italy during the summer. The Camaleonti group was another of the most popular in Italy at that time, their former singer Riky Maiocchi has left the year before for a solo career and Mario Lavezzi and Tonino Cripezzi were the new components of the band.
(12)	Ghigo Agosti started to sing professionaly during the fifties, and he was among the first in Italy to sing R&B and rock songs (Stazione del rock, Coccinella), together with other "rockers", all from Milan, very famous in the following years (Adriano Celentano, Giorgio Gaber, Enzo Jannacci, Guidone, Ricky Gianco, Clem Sacco). During the sixties he formed the group Ghigo & i Goghi, he proposed a cover of Shout! and then he assumed other identities, as Mr. Anima (Mr. Soul), than Probus Harlem and lastly the psychedelic Black Sunday Flower.
(13)	Catherine Spaak, daughter of the former belgian premier and living in Italy, was an young actress extremely popular in Italy during the sixties. She started also a career as a singer with the cover in Italian of the hit of Francoise Hardy "Tous les garcons et le filles" (in Italian "I ragazzi della mia età") and other songs, the most popular one being "L'esercito del surf" ("surf army")
(14)	Patty Pravo was the most popular Italian singer during the sixties, probably even more of Caterina Caselli and Mina. She started to be famous as "la ragazza del Piper" ("the Piper Club's girl") following the great success of this dance hall located in the center of Rome, and she had very soon the opportunity to publish several discs. In the beginning she followed the "beat" style, but her greater hits were more popular and traditional songs, as "La bambola" ("the doll"), over 9 million copies sold in Europe.