A song for the summer: “Love in Portofino” by Johnny Dorelli
Love in Portofino (1958) – one of the few retailers that, although belonging chronologically to the history of the 1950s, resists and survives even in a subsequent phase: more than those who wrote and sung at the start, a Fred Buscaglione uncomfortable in the melodic role, is thanks to those who have resumed it with severe composure, a Johnny Dorelli, cerimonous and melancholy as only he knows how to do, in the first places of the rankings in 1959, which also wins the Sanremo Festival, paired with Domenico Modugno (“In the blue painted blue”). “Love in Portofino” is a milestone of the culture of the Night-Club:
“The Found My Love in Portofino / Because in dreams I still believe / the strange game of destiny / in Portofino took the heart. / In the sweet enchantment of the morning / the sea brought you to me / hocchy the eyes / and to me near Portofino / I see you again.
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.
