From where each word is a song

 

Sarolta Zalatnay (born Charlotte Sacher in Budapest, Hungary,14 December 1947) is a Hungarian singer. She has been noted for a flourishing popular music career under Communism, and evolved from teen pop to rock music.

 

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Escaping the killer skull

 

John Cameron (1944) is a British composer, arranger, conductor and musician. He is well known for his many film, TV and stage credits, and for his contributions to pop recordings, notably those by Donovan, Cilla Black and the group Hot Chocolate. Cameron's instrumental version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", became a hit for his group CCS and, for many years, a version of Cameron's arrangement was used as the theme music for the BBC TV show Top of the Pops.

 

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Dancing under the icy moon

 

 

Angelo Baroncini ( Cicci Santucci E Il Suo Complesso) is a Italian Jazz guitarist and composer. Bruno Battisti D'Amario (Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza) is an Italian classical guitarist, teacher and composer. D'Amario is known for his performances on film scores by Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, and became Professor of Classical Guitar at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.

 

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Spirals of deep anguish

 

Carlo Savina (1919 - 2002) was an Italian conductor, composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist (violin, keyboards, guitar).

 

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Activating hemostasis inhibitors

 

Jean-Claude Vannier (born 1943) is a French musician, composer and arranger. Vannier has composed music, written lyrics, and produced albums for many singers. Vannier is regarded as an important musician in his native country; music critic Andy Votel noted his Eastern music influences and named him a pop-culture icon of 1970s France, alongside Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.

 

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Touring cotton landscapes

 

Janko Nilović (1941) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia and Easy Listening.

 

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Pleasures of the blood

 

Edward Dicks (5 May 1928 - 27 January 2012) was an English composer. He is best known for composing the music for the novelty songs "Right Said Fred" and "The Hole in the Ground". They were both Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1962, recorded by Bernard Cribbins with lyrics by Myles Rudge, and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. Another song by Dicks and Rudge, "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam", was a million-seller hit in 1965 for Ronnie Hilton.

 

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Expelling aberrant entities

 

Giuliano Sorgini is an Italian composer and musician who initially created music for TV and in the '70s switched to cinema; he mixed beat, prog, funk and psychedelia with library music.

 

Giuliano Sorgini - Un Urlo Dalle Tenebre (L'Esorcista N°2)

Mysteries from chilhood

 

Christian Gaubert is a French composer, pianist, arranger and band leader. Collaborations include Charles Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu, Gilbert Bécaud, Johnny Hallyday, Serge Gainsbourg, Pascal Auriat, and Gérard Lenorman among others.

 

Christian Gaubert - The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane

Encounters outside the solar system

 

Bernard Fèvre is a self-taught french composer, now over 60 years old. In his early life, his day job was in precision mechanics; on saturday nights he played piano in a R' n B' band, Frankie Presle and the G.men. He then spent ten years as part of Les Francs Garçons, a singing group in the "Don Camillo" night-club in Paris. He now works for a French radio station, providing its 'sound environment'.

His first solo record is "The Strange World of Bernard Fèvre", followed some months after by "Black Devil Disco Club 78" which had a new and pioneering electronic sound. The records met with limited success and Bernard Fèvre remained in obscurity for more than twenty years. He released at least 3 albums of electronic library music during the 70s.

 

Bernard Fevre - Orbit Ceremony 77

Dark pleasures of the flesh

 

Nora Orlandi (1933) is an Italian pop singer, composer and pianist, also the author of some very strange psychedelic Giallo-soundtracks.

 

Nora Orlandi - Il Dolce Corpo Di Deborah

Blurred sunsets over Rome

 

Delirium Of The Senses - Psychedelia In Italian Cinema is an Italian Beat/Psychedelic film music compilation made by English label Bella Casa.

 

Delirium of The Senses (Psychedelia In Italian Cinema)

Tripping into Lombardy

 

Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide is an Italian Space age/Psychedelic/Lounge cinema music compilation made by Italian label Giallo Records.

 

 

Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide

The soil is nourished by white blood

 

Piero Umiliani (17 July 1926 - 14 February 2001) was an Italian composer of film scores. Like many of his Italian colleagues at that time, he composed the scores for many exploitation films in the 1960s and 1970s, covering genres such as Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy, Giallo, and softcore sex films.

His composition "Mah Nà Mah Nà" (1968) was originally used in Sweden: Heaven and Hell, a 1968 Mondo documentary about Sweden. Umiliani's other scores included Son of Django, Orgasmo, Gangster's Law, Death Knocks Twice, Five Dolls for an August Moon,Baba Yaga and The Slave and Sex Pot.

 

Piero Umiliani - 10 bianchi uccisi da un piccolo indiano

Music to wear a red beret

 

Ittiologia is an Italian Library music compilation made by Cardium Label (includes Alessandro Alessandroni, Amedeo Tommasi, Atmo and Franco Tamponi).

 

Ittiologia

Submerged in deadly waters

 

Luciano Michelini (1945) is an Italian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist and organist, well known by film scores as The Island of the Fishmen (1979), The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) and The Cheaters (1975).

 

Luciano Michelini - L'Isola Degli Uomini Pesce

The roar precedes the popular uprising

 

Alessandro Alessandroni (1925, Rome, Italy - 2017, Rome, Italy) was an Italian composer, arranger, vocalist, whistler, conductor and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, sitar, keyboards, mandolin, mandocello, accordion, banjo, flute, harmonica, jew's harp, recorder, melodica and ocarina). He was the founder of the vocal ensemble I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. Husband of Margaret Courtney-Clarke. Previously married to Giulia Alessandroni (Kema) until her death in 1984.

 

Also collaborated with his childhood friend Ennio Morricone on a number of soundtracks for Spaghetti Westerns. Morricone's orchestration often calls for an unusual combination of instruments, voices, and whistling. Alessandroni's twangy guitar riff is central to the main theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's films, including A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Pervirella. He also collaborated with Morricone in scoring the 1974 film Around the World with Peynet's Lovers.

 

He founded the octet vocal group I Cantori Moderni in 1961. The group, which included his wife, Giulia De Mutiis, performed wordless vocals on several Italian movie soundtracks. Most notably, I Cantori Moderni are featured on the song "Mah Nà Mah Nà", written by Piero Umiliani for the 1968 Luigi Scattini mondo film Svezia, inferno e paradiso and popularized on The Muppets Show

 

Alessandro has also composed film scores, including Any Gun Can Play (1967), Johnny Hamlet (1968), The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine (1969), Lady Frankenstein (1971), The Devil's Nightmare (1971), The Mad Butcher (1971), Seven Hours of Violence (1973), Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad (1973), Poker in Bed (1974), White Fang and the Hunter (1975), Blood and Bullets (1976), L'adolescente (1976), La professoressa di scienze naturali (1976), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976), Women's Camp 119 (1977), Killer Nun (1978), L'imbranato (1979), and Trinity Goes East (1998).

 

Alessandro Alessandroni - Inchiesta

The danger of secret societies

 

Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player, writing in a wide range of musical styles. Since 1961, Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works.

 

Ennio Morricone - Violenza Quinto Potere

Hallucinating in the inner world

 

Armando Sciascia (1920-2017) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and violinist; founder of Vedette Records.

Armando Sciascia - Metempsyco

Turquoise butterflies flying to heaven

 

Beyaz Kelebekler was a Turkish pop music group. The active musical life of the group lasted from 1963 to 1980. It was founded by 5 young people studying at Kabataş Boys' High School; with the participation of Turgut Akyüz, he started his professional life and started to become famous.   

 

The band, which first worked with Ayşe Sütçü as a soloist, continued with Azize Gencebay as the new soloist after Ayşe got married and left music. After Azize married Orhan Gencebay and left music, the band signed with Ülkü Üst.

The group had a traffic accident on January 19, 1970, while going to Adapazarı for a concert, where they lost Behzat Kutlubağ, Altan Eke and Rıfat Eke in this accident; the band, which came to the point of disbanding after this incident, reversed this decision upon insistence from the environment.

 

Beyaz Kelebekler, one of the famous bands of the 70s, gave concerts in many European countries during this period, until the group ends its career after the 1980 Izmir Fair.

 

Beyaz Kelebekler - Arzu Kızım