The songs of “A record for the summer” 1974
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” 1974
1. Gianni Nazzaro, “This is love”
2. Drupi, “Small and Fragile”
3. Umberto Balsamo, “We Liars”
4. Peppino Gagliardi, “My Poetry”
5. The Strange Society, “Bring Back the Sun”
6. The Nomads, “Everything’s OK”
7. The Vianellas, “Flight of the Swallow”
8. Alberto Anelli, “Secret”
9. The New Angels, “Caravan”
10. Gianni Bella, “The More I Think About It”
Also in the final were:
Don Backy, “Love Not Love”
Team 84, “Merchant without Flowers”
Not in the final
Lucio Dalla, “Anna Bellanna”
Enzo Jannacci, “Bad People”
Luciano Rossi, “Kill Oh”
Renato Zero, “Invent”
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.
