Johnny Dorelli on DeBaser: reviews, albums, swing & Sanremo

Johnny Dorelli

Musician

Forfans of italian pop and crooners, sanremo historians, swing and easy listening collectors.
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The Profile

Johnny Dorelli is an Italian singer, actor and television host known for a suave crooner style that spans pop, swing and easy listening. He co-interpreted Sanremo classics with Domenico Modugno in the late 1950s and returned in 1967 to present L'immensità with Don Backy. On stage he headlined the hit musical Aggiungi un posto a tavola.

Italian singer-actor; born in Italy; birth name: Giorgio Guidi; co-interpreter at Sanremo 1958 and 1959 alongside Domenico Modugno; presented L'immensità with Don Backy at Sanremo 1967; notable for the musical Aggiungi un posto a tavola and a long TV/radio career.

Three reviews chart Dorelli’s path from crooner slow-burns to beat and swing detours. L'immensità gets the warmest praise, while compilations and self-titled LPs draw mixed notes for pacing and too many slow songs. Sinatra covers, R&B-tinged B-sides and TV tie-ins recur. Overall tone: respectful, mildly critical, often affectionate.

Notable Quotes

❝ The album is a sort of collection of light music hits during the war and post-war period, here interpreted by Dorelli.

❝ ....I'm sure that, for every drop, for every drop that falls a new flower will bloom, and on that flower, a butterfly will fly...

❝ We are in 1965, in Italy there's the rise of Beat music, and strangely even the antiquated Dorelli releases an album with many songs in tune with the times.