MINA LP STUDIO UNO 66 RARE US ITALIAN POP TA RA TA 1966

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Studio Uno 66 is an album by Italian singer Mina.

The album was released in the spring of 1966, topping the charts and yielding three top ten singles - "Ta-ra-ta-ta", "Una casa al cima al mondo" and "Se telefonando".

"Se telefonando" is Mina's flawless interpretation of a difficult song, composed and arranged by Ennio Morricone to lyrics by Maurizio Costanzo. The main theme of the song thrills around just three notes, taken from the siren of a police car in Marseilles.

Track listing
Side A
Ta-ra-ta-ta - 2:10
No - 2:30
Se tu non fossi qui - 3:03
Breve amore - 2:36
Sono qui per te - 2:58
Mai cosi - 2:53

Side B
Se telefonando - 2:58
Mi sei scoppiato dentro il cuore - 3:09
Una casa in cima al mondo - 3:01
Addio - 2:28
Ebb tide - 2:43
Lontanissimo - 2:09

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Anna Maria Quaini, OMRI, born Anna Maria Mazzini 25 March 1940, known as Mina, is an Italian pop singer.  For the great extension and agility of her soprano voice and her image as an emancipated lady, she was a staple of the Italian television variety shows  and a dominant figure in the Italian pop music from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s.  In the performances, Mina combined several modern styles with the traditional Italian melody and swing music making her the most versatile pop singer in Italian music.  Mina dominated the Italian charts for fifteen years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity in Italy.  She has scored 77 albums and 71 singles in Italian charts.

Mina's TV appearances in 1959 presented the first female rock and roll singer in Italy. Her loud syncopated singing earned her the nickname Queen of Screamers.  For her wild gestures and body shakes, the publicity also labeled her the Tiger of Cremona. Having turned to light pop tunes, Mina's chart-toppers in West Germany and Japan in 1962–1964 earned her the titles of the best international artist in the respective countries. Mina's more refined sensual manner was introduced in 1960 with Gino Paoli's ballad "This World We Love In", which charted in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.

Mina's pregnancy and relationship with a married actor caused her to be banned from the Italian TV and radio channels in 1963 as her lifestyle did not accord with the dominant Catholic and bourgeois morals. After the ban, the Italian broadcasting service RAI continued trying to prohibit her songs which were forthright in dealing with subjects such as religion, smoking, or sex. To her bad girl image, Mina added her sex appeal and her cool act featuring public smoking, dyed blond hair and shaved eyebrows.

Mina's voice has distinctive timbre and great power. Her main theme are anguished love stories performed in high dramatic tones. The singer combined classic Italian pop with features of blues, R&B and soul music in the late 1960s, especially in collaboration with the composer Lucio Battisti. Top Italian songwriters created material with large vocal range and unusual chord progression to showcase her singing skills, particularly "Brava" by Bruno Canfora (1965) and the pseudo-serial "Se telefonando" by Ennio Morricone (1966). The latter song was covered by several performers abroad. Her ballad "Grande grande grande" was carried to the U.S., U.K., and Australian charts by Shirley Bassey. Mina's easy listening duet "Parole parole" was turned into a worldwide hit by Dalida and Alain Delon. Mina gave up public appearances in 1978 while she has continued to release popular albums on a yearly basis to date.