| 01. L'Uomo Dell'Armonica from
C'era Una Volta Il West - Ennio Morricone
02. I'm Not Your Pony (instrumental) from Prega Il Morto E
Ammazza Il Vivo - Mario Migliardi
03. Buckaroo Sequence 2 from Buckaroo: Il Winchester Che Non
Perdona - Coriolano (Lallo) Gori
04. Whisky Tango * Ettore Ballotta *
05. I Pendolari from Allora, Il Treno - Bruno Nicolai *
06. Cinzia - Alessandro Alessandroni
07. Beat 700 - Franco De Gemini & Allessandro Alessandroni
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08. Ciao Dal Muretto Di Alassio - Franco De Gemini & Allessandro
Alessandroni
09. Romantico Tramonto - Romano Rizzati *
10. Cos'è L'amore (instrumental) from Si Puo' Fare
Molto Con 7 Donne - Franco De Gemini
11. Cheops And Nefertiti (versione integrale inedito) from
Si Puo' Fare Molto Con 7 Donne - Franco De Gemini
12. Salutiamo Il Sole - Lino Castiglione *
13. Sulla Riviera - Franco De Gemini & Allessandro Alessandroni
*
14. Big News - Alessandro Alessandroni
15. Black Window - Alessandro Alessandroni *
16. L'Uomo Dell'Armonica (disco version - 1978) - Ennio Morricone
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* Previously unreleased on CD |
This is the premiere cd compilation paying tribute
to the unique harmonica soloist Franco De Gemini.
Featuring his top hit The Man With The Harmonica, the main theme
of Morricone's score for Once Upon A Time In The West, Sergio
Leone's Spaghetti Western masterpiece.
Furthermore you can find 15 tracks he recorded between 1967
and 1978, reaching from Italo-Western songs to easy listening
to disco to jazz.
It's a mix of soundtrack music, rare library tracks and pop
instrumentals. Sometimes dramatic, sometimes groovy.
Several titles were composed by Maestro De Gemini himself
(other composers are Morricone, Alessandroni, Nicolai, a.o.).
Of course the mainthread running through this cd is the solo
harmonica sound of the later founder of Italian cult soundtrack
label Beat Records.
But you will also find one title without this instrument:
Cheops And Nefertiti shows the talents of De Gemini as a composer
(here in an extra-long version which has been dug out in the
Beat Records archives in Rome in 2005).
The only vocal title on this compilation brings us a reunion
with singer Dean Reed, who made some kind of an Italo-Western
career in the late 60s before he became the American Rebel
Of The GDR.
Like the original version is the prelude to this cd, an extraordinary
Disco Version of L'Uomo Dell'Armonica brings up the rear.
Half of the titles have never been released on cd before
(even more, if bootlegs would have been cut out...).
The booklet comes with extensive linernotes and many pictures.
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