A song for the summer: Edoardo Vianello's "Very Star Libronzata"

A song for the summer: “A roundabout on the sea” by Fred Bongusto

ByJohn

A roundabout on the sea (1964) – “A roundabout on the sea / our record that plays / I see friends dancing / but you are not here with me. / My love / tell me if you are / sad as me / tell me if who separated us / is always there next to you / if you are happy with him / or regret something about me.” It is all here, in a few relentless verses that bring Franco Migliacci’s inexorable signature, the secret of a timeless song. Of course, there are also other fundamental ingredients to transform success into an evergreen of a higher flow of every prediction: the voice of Bongusto, the orchestration, that atmosphere of tenuous sadness, of minute fragility that the Molise artist acquires as a stylistic figure will make “a roundabout on the sea” an eponym, a casus of the song of the summer.

Bonus track: Fred Bongusto, “Three weeks to tell”

This news is, for a kind concession of the author and the publisher, by “linked to a grain of sand”, written by Enzo Gentile and published by Melampo Editore.

John
John

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