Una lacrima sul viso

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This article is about song by Bobby Solo. For similarly titled Italian film Una lacrima sul viso, see Tears on Your Face.
"Una lacrima sul viso"
Una lacrima sul viso.jpg
Single by Bobby Solo
from the album ' Bobby Solo'
B-side"Non Ne Posso Più"
ReleasedFebruary 1964
GenrePop
LabelRicordi
Songwriter(s)Lunero and Mogol
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 Lunero and Mogol 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. Unable to sing live, 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]

Track listing[]

  • 7" single – SRL 10-338
  1. "Una lacrima sul viso" (Lunero, Mogol)
  2. "Non ne posso più" (Giorgio Salvioni, Iller Pattacini)

Covers[]

Besides the famous cover by Frankie Laine as "For Your Love", the song was covered by several artists, including notably Achille Togliani, Claude Challe, and musical scores by Richard Clayderman, Franck Pourcel and Francis Goya.

In popular culture[]

The song also named a musicarello film with the same name (in Italian Una lacrima sul viso, English title Tears on Your Face), a film directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti and starring Bobby Solo and Laura Efrikian.[4]

The song 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]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 978-8863462296.
  2. ^ Dario Salvatori (1989). Storia dell'Hit Parade. Gramese, 1989. ISBN 8876054391.
  3. ^ Joseph Murrells (1978). 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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