The songs of “A record for the summer” 1973
The event was born from the idea of AFI, Associazione Fonografici Italiani, to promote the summer record market with a festival that presented the new releases of the various labels, as happened at the Sanremo Festival for the winter market. It was broadcast by RAI, and became a regular event until 1975, when it was suspended (and then resumed in other forms and with other titles).
Here we present the editions of the first “classic” series of “A Record for the Summer”, which was held from 1964 to 1975 inclusive.
“A Record for the Summer” 1973
1. The Chameleons, “Why I Love You”
2. Gianni Nazzaro, “The first forbidden dream”
3. Mino Reitano, “Three words in the wind”
4. The Vianellas, “My Son”
5. Dik Dik, “Suburban Story”
6. Rosanna Fratello, “White Clouds”
7. The Prophets, “I why, I for whom”
8. Al Bano, “Maria’s Song”
9. Gilda Giuliani, “Everything is easy”
10. Jimmy Fontana, “Made in Italy”
11 ex aequo. Nada, “Thrills of Love”
11 ex aequo. Rita Pavone, “Love is a little crazy”
13. The Nomads, “A day together”
14. The Strange Society, “It was still spring”
Also in the final were:
Rich and Poor, “My Little Love”
The Gens, “my dear friend”
Not in the final
Franco Califano, “What Are You Crying For?”
Francesco De Gregori, “Alice”
JET, “Glory, Glory”
The data (performers, titles, placements) are taken, courtesy of the authors (Federico Pieri and Daniele Sgherri of Musica in Mostra), from “Un disco per l’Estate”, Ergo Sum Editrice, which collects all the covers of all the 45 rpm records of all the songs that participated in the “Disco Per l’Estate” between 1964 and 1975.
