Edoardo Vianello
I grandi successi originali

Name: one of those used in Italy
Debaser name: Strippolino
Fake?: We're all a little fake

I couldn't refrain from reviewing a work by an artist who made history (musical and otherwise), socially and culturally, in the Italian peninsula.

An undeniable fact is that Edoardo with his hits made the populations of the Italian peninsula dance... and dance with a capital D. In support of this thesis, I ask you, do you ever go to a nightclub? It has happened to me, and without too much pride, I tell you that it still happens. Well, have you heard what's ruling the nightclubs across half of Europe? House, yes, house? And how do you dance to house music? I admit my inability to move in coordination with the notes from the DJ on duty who delivers this music, admitting guilty as charged of hating after about 10 minutes the vocalist on duty who with an air between serious and hallucinated shouts "Hey guys areyouHAVINGFUNNN!?", as if to say to the dancing clientele (?), "Guys, either you have fun or it's your problem because they don't pay me!"

My inability would not be such if, instead of the incriminated house, there was this album that contains the hits of good Edoardo Vianello. In this case, I would find no difficulty in dancing the hully-gally to "i Watussi" (I'm tall, too) and would encounter no technical, nor embarrassment barriers to dancing to the notes of "Guarda come dondolo".
Yes "guarda come dondolo guarda come dondolo con il twist, con le gambe ad angolo con le gambe ad angolo ballo il twist"... yes, legs at an angle, who among you can't do legs at an angle?!

Without leaving out the "flirting" component of the lyrics "perhaps because I sway, perhaps it's your eyes that shine, but I see a thousand thousand thousand fireflies coming towards me together with you!" Doesn't that seem like a great approach? Yes, "my legs tremble (twist, twist) maybe they are shivers are shivers of love"! Which charming maiden could resist the shivers of love?
And if you then start dating this maiden, go on a ski trip, Edoardo has the perfect tune "from the peak of the mountain with the snow this high in the valley we will descend with a pair of skis on our feet".

Vianello has sung about all seasons, but he has always favored summer; a milestone of his repertoire is "Abbronzantissima" - "A-A Abbronzantissima under the rays of the sun how beautiful it is to dream embraced with you... on your very sweet lips, a scent of sea salt I will feel for the whole time of this summer of love". This piece doesn't lack melancholy either: "When your very dark face will turn pale again, these days by the sea I will not be able to forgetooooooo".

Yes, how not to feel sweet and delicate sadness once returned to the city's greyness for the sun that burned on the skin?
How to forget the lifeguard with such a "boro" (not the chemical element on the periodic table of elements) and tough belly that he lights his cigarette with the sun?
How to forget the paddleboat with the much more popular slide compared to the one without?

This "I grandi successi originali" that encompasses Edoardo Vianello's intense recording career, cannot be missing (especially in the warm season) in CD players, Mp3 players, in the car stereo, or in any gadget capable of playing it, for those who love pure fun and who can't stand listening to a jumble of noises blasted from a speaker anymore.

Let's dance to these songs!