Love in Portofino
| "Love in Portofino" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Love in Portofino.jpg Cover art of the mainstream single for the song, issued in fall of 1959. | ||||
| Single by Dalida | ||||
| from the album Love in Portofino (A San Cristina) | ||||
| B-side | "La chanson d'Orpheé" | |||
| Released | July 1959 | |||
| Recorded | July 1959 | |||
| Studio | Hoche | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:15 | |||
| Label | Barclay | |||
| Composer(s) | Fred Buscaglione | |||
| Lyricist(s) | Jacques Larue, Leo Chiosso | |||
| Dalida singles chronology | ||||
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| Alternative cover | ||||
.jpg) Cover of the song's first pressing on te EP in July 1959. | ||||
Love in Portofino is a 1959 song recorded by French singer Dalida, with lyrics in Italian and French language although the name is in English. The song was her minor hit upon its release, but it was soon caught up and covered by several other singers, including Gloria Lasso under the name "A San Cristina", and in instrumental versions by accordionists and conductors. Being embraced by musical intellectuals as masterpiece of Dalida's early repertoire and pop standard of 1950s, it eventually became the symbolic song for the Portofino, to which the it is referred to. More recently, Love in Portofino was covered by Andrea Bocelli in 2013 and was featured on the eponymous album.[1]
Background
The song was written only in Italian by Chiosso, but when Barclay got the song for Dalida they added the French part written by Larue. It was recorded during Dalida's summer tour, in July 1959 in Hoche studio in Paris, under orchestra conduction of Raymond Lefèvre, and was published the same month as a B-side to "La chanson d'Orpheé" EP.[2][3]
Charts
| Chart (1959) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| France[4] | 15 |
| Wallonia[5] | 20 |
See also
References
- ^ "Andrea Bocelli Love in Portofino DVD - Official Website". www.andreabocelli.com. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
- ^ "Album format". Dalida Official Website. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ^ "Personnel". Studio Hoche. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ^ "Classement des 20 plus grands succès du mois". Music Hall: 1. Autumn 1959.
- ^ "Chart". ultratop.be.
