A song for the summer: Mina’s “Tintarella di Lunarella”
Tintarella di Luna (1959) – Mina’s first album to reach the highest point of the sales charts: recently stopped the role of Baby Gate, the Cremonese girl still feels strong and clear the influences of the rock’n’roll from which she started. Not yet twenty years old, but already very sure of himself and with a great temperament, he embraces the soul and body a brisk song by Franco Migliacci, who has a fairy hand in that period (back, the year before, from “in the blue painted blue”), and of Bruno De Filippi, a harmonician and jazz musician. Almost an anticipation of the campaigns on the risks of prolonged exposure to the sun.
“All tanned patches / red skin a little paonazze / are the girls who take the sol / but there is one that takes the moon. / Moon tan, milk tan / all night above the roof / over the roof like cats / and if there is a full moon / you become candida.
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.
