Una lacrima sul viso

"Una lacrima sul viso"
Single by Bobby Solo
from the album ' Bobby Solo'
B-side "Non Ne Posso Più"
Released February 1964
Format 45 rpm single
Genre Pop
Label Ricordi
Bobby Solo singles chronology
"Blu è blu"
(1963)		 "Una lacrima sul viso"
(1964)		 "Credi a me"
(1964)

"Una lacrima sul viso" (Italian for A Tear on your Face) is a song composed by Mogol and Bobby Solo and performed by Bobby Solo. The song premiered at the fourteenth Sanremo Music Festival, with a double performance by Solo and Frankie Laine, who proposed an English version of the song with the title "For Your Love".[1] The song entered the final, but Solo was affected by laryngitis and, unable to sing, he sang with playback being subsequently disqualified.[1]

The single peaked at first place for nine consecutive weeks on the Italian hit parade.[2]It sold over three million copies worldwide, and it was awarded a gold disc.[3]

The song also named a musicarello film with the same name, directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti and starred by the same Bobby Solo and by Laura Efrikian.[4]

The song was later covered by several artists, including Richard Clayderman, Franck Pourcel, Achille Togliani, Claude Challe and Francis Goya. It was also used in several films, notably Whit Stillman's Barcelona,[5] Xavier Giannoli's When I Was a Singer,[6] and François Ozon's 5x2.[7]

Track listing

  1. "Una lacrima sul viso" (Mogol, Bobby Solo)
  2. "Non Ne Posso Più" (Giorgio Salvioni, Iller Pattacini)

References

  1. 1 2 Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 8863462291.
  2. ↑ Dario Salvatori. Storia dell'Hit Parade. Gramese, 1989. ISBN 8876054391.
  3. ↑ Joseph Murrells. The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). Barrie and Jenkins Ltd., 1978. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
  4. ↑ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.
  5. ↑ Giovanna Grassi (15 March 1995). "L' America ha la lacrima sul viso". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Chiara Ugolini (26 May 2006). "Depardieu, un cantante da Palma d'Oro". La Repubblica. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Film Review: Special, Issues 56-58. Visual Imagination Ltd., 2005. p.114.
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