20,000 Vinyl LPs 299: Milva ~ Ennio Morricone, Chi Mai & Sandra Sakata

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Milva ~ Dedicato A Milva Da Ennio Morricone

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Today is the birthday of Milva who was born on July 17, 1939. I adored this woman and bought every album by her I could find. Although she was Italian most of them were sung in German.    

She did covers of songs that were originally instrumental with lyrics composed for her; my favorites were To the Unknown Man by Vangelis, one of the most dramatic pieces of music ever written sounding nothing like but on the same level as Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copeland, and Chi Mai by Ennio Morricone from the 1981 film, Le Professionnel, the latter being one of the most romantic and wistful songs ever written. Sandra Sakata wanted me to use Chi Mai in many of her fashion shows for her boutique, Obiko.     

The Professional movie poster

 

 

Milva died three months ago on the 23rd of April, 2021, at her home in Milan, in the north of Italy. She was 81 years old.    

 

Milva was an Italian singer, stage and film actress, and television personality. She was also known as La Rossa (Italian for "The Redhead"), due to the characteristic color of her hair, and additionally as La Pantera di Goro ("The Panther of Goro"), which stemmed from the Italian press having nicknamed the three most popular Italian female singers of the 1960s, combining the names of animals and the singers' birth places. The colour also characterised her leftist political beliefs, claimed in numerous statements. Popular in Italy and abroad, she performed on musical and theatrical stages the world over, and received popular acclaim in her native Italy, and particularly in Germany, where she often participated in musical events and televised musical programs. She released numerous albums in France, Japan, Korea, Greece, Spain, and South America.    

She collaborated with European composers and musicians including Ennio Morricone in 1965, Francis Lai in 1973, Mikis Theodorakis in 1978 (Was ich denke became a best selling album in Germany), Enzo Jannacci in 1980, Vangelis in 1981 and 1986, and Franco Battiato in 1982 and 1986.   

Her stage productions of the Bertolt Brecht recitals and the Luciano Berio operas toured the world's theatres. She performed at La Scala in Milan, at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, at the Paris Opera, in the Royal Albert Hall in London and at the Edinburgh Festival and many others.      

         

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Milva had official recognition from the Italian, French and German Republics and is the only Italian artist to be simultaneously Officer of the Ordre des arts et des lettres, Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and Knight of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic.      

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vinyl LP label, side 2

   

Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - La Califfa, written by A. Bevilacqua* - 2:42
A2 - Ridevi, written by M. Travia* - 3:30
A3 - Chi Mai, written by C. Nistri* - 3:27
A4 - Imagini Del Tempo, written by M. Travia* - 4:00
A5 - Metti Una Sera A Cena, written by G. P. Griffi* - 4:25
A6 - Viaggio Senza Bagagli, written by M. Travia* - 2:48

Side 2:

B1 - D'Amore Si Muore, written by C. Carunchio*, G. P. Griffi* - 3:50
B2 - Canzone Della Liberta', written by L. Lucignani* - 2:55
B3 - Mia Madre Si Chiama Francesca, written by L. Travia* - 3:00
B4 - Dio, Uno Di Noi, written by A. Bevilacqua* - 4:10
B5 - Questa Specie D'Amore, written by A. Bevilacqua* - 3:21
B6 - Se Ci Sara', written by M. Travia* - 4:00

Companies, etc.

    Licensed From – Dischi Ricordi S.p.A.
    Distributed By – Metronome Records GmbH
    Made By – Metronome Records GmbH
    Published By – Edizioni General Music
    Published By – Slalom
    Published By – Edizioni Bixio
    Published By – Marouani
    Published By – Ameuropa
    Published By – Saar
    Lacquer Cut at – Tonstudio Pfanz
    Pressed By – Phonodisc GmbH – 0664.895

Credits:

    Producer, Music By, Arranged By, Conductor, Written-By, Liner Notes – Ennio Morricone
    Vocals – Milva

Notes:

 Printed on back cover:
- Distributed by METRONOME RECORDS GmbH
- Made in W.-Germany
- Prodotto da Dischi Ricordi S.p.A.
- Su lizensa della G. Ricordi & C. S.p.A.
- STEREO
Catalog Number: MLP 15.928

Printed on label:
- Ricordi Label
- Licensed by G. Ricordi & C. S.p.A.
- Produced by Dischi Ricordi S.p.A.
- Catalog Number: 0015.928
- P. 1972
- Made in Germany by Metronome Musik GmbH

Publisher:
Track A1: ed. General Music / Slalom / SIAE
Tracks A2 to A4, B2, B6: ed. General Music / SIAE
Tracks A5, B3: ed. Bixio / SIAE
Track A6: ed. General Music / Marouani / SIAE
Track B1: ed. General Music / Ameuropa / SIAE
Tracks B4, B5: ed. General Music / Saar / SIAE

 
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): 0015.928 B (0664.895 S 2)
    Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A, Etched): ST-MLP-15.928-A 0664.895 S1 ∗ PF
    Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B, Etched): PF ST-MLP-15.928-B ∗ 0664.895 S2
    Rights Society: GEMA
    Label Code: LC 0989

 

Milva - Ennio Morricone ‎– Dedicato A Milva Da Ennio Morricone
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Lounge, Ballad, Easy Listening
Year: 1972   

         

         

         

         

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Milva ~ Dicono di me (To the Unknown Man)         

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Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant lyrics

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*		1		Thank you		4:17
		2		Black silk stocking		2:36
		3		Lola		2:52
		4		C-rock		5:29
		5		What for		3:43
		6		Wanderlust		2:14
		7		Lycee		7:38
		8		Mandoia		4:24
		9		Thank you		4:19
				Total playing time		37:53

Black silk stocking lyrics

Sensitive her feeling, when she's Waking in the morning, Black silk stocking Black silk stocking Put your hand inside it, and she'll tell you where to find it, Black silk stocking Black silk stocking And when she is not talking, be sure she wants some rockin' Black silk stocking Black silk stocking If you're not into rockin' you're best to keep on walking Black silk stocking Black silk stocking You think she's going to leave you, but she only wants to see you in her, black silk stocking Black silk stocking

Lutting instigation, her spell is captivating, Black silk stocking Black silk stocking Provoking whip, lash lash, please stop smoking Black silk stocking Black silk stocking Ho baby, baby no-ones loving, your degeneration Black silk stocking Black silk stocking Oh baby, no-ones loving, your degeneration Black silk stocking Black silk stocking

Lola lyrics

She lives alone Lola, But every night she goes down, to the Chinese where she works very hard there, sipping her cocktails. expenses paid Lola She is performing For a cause, Her glances faking, A deep fascination, She wants information She goes upstairs Lola Clinging on to Another man, She lays him down, down Almond eyes on fire,

Seducing his mind Behind the smoke and Screenz-a, Lola is a Private eye, She well disguises Her lingering actions, No-one suspecting At the Chinese Lola Killed all those Who did her wrong, Her soul is blazing Whith blood thirsty craving, No-one, objecting

C-rock lyrics

Let's rocking
Go back rocking
[etc.]

What for lyrics

What for She likes the way you bore, What for Her foot's inside the door, What for She'll push you to the floor, what for She loves the way you bore What for She likes the way you go What for Her answer's never no, what for She likes to take you so what for She loves you when you're low What for She likes to make you sigh, what for shee seems to get you high what for she's got to get some more what for she loves the way you bore, what for she never did before

What for She likes the way you know What for She likes it very slow, what for Your mind's about to blow, what for And you're just going to owl got it got it got it what for she likes the way you bore, what for She loves the way you bore Take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, what for We're getting to the core What for, we like the way we bore

Wanderlust lyrics

Got the wanderlust you go te the airport and see a plane take off, go to England or take a trip by sea and get off, where you want to get off, write to the boy next door, who always wants to do, what you're just about to do tell him that you like New York city I'm sure he'll like it too - you say you like your nation - so let's take a long vacation Tell your navigator to wait downstairs with his white gloves on, tell him to zip up your bag with his white gloves on take your diamond, so if you've got the money left, you can always sell it here I come, get ready get set fire go, go, go, go, go - you say you like your nation - so let's take a long vacation My transfer agent sens me where I Where I want to go That's a fact He thinks I'm great 'cos I treat him like dirt, like durt, he does me favours But I could do with even better ones, they call him sticky 'cos I treat him like dirt, like dirt, like dirt - you say you like your nation - so let's take a long vacation

Your transit airman is heating up the engine clear your head, go out and get it instead of watching T.V., and stagnating in your bed, by the window thinking of the next record that you're going to buy, you like Maurice with his safety pin so it's gonna be a Punk one - you say you like your nation - so let's take a long vacation Got the wanderlust it's time to go and do, what you've decided to do Go to Milan Or if not just you take a bike to see a sight I feel free you feel free and how about the boy next door, tell him that you like New York I'm sure he'll like it too - you say you like your nation - so let's take a long vacation

Lycee lyrics

I was looking through Through the, the window pane Tears of rain ran down, And blurred a sight so bad, Revolution now, Somehow, I feel afraid I, I heard her cry out loud, echoes insane, shee feel to the ground, her hand reached out in vain Young, Lycee was young, but now, oh there she lay, who will call her name, Victim of blood red flame, she, a living sun will not come back again

I, I saw her face Through the, the window pane, I, still hear her cry I feel, I want to die, I, I saw her face Through the, the window pane, I, still hear her cry I feel I want to die

Mandoia lyrics

I'v gotta in Mandoia An easy hackin in the haia smoking laia I see the hakin of the Maia In Mandoia I feel the iaia to mahoia through my Lala I see the hackin of Ma'haia in Mandoia An easy hackin in the haia smoking laia I see the hakin of the Maia In Mandoia I feel the iaia to mahoia through my Lala I see the hackin of Ma'haia so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... I'v gotta in Mandoia An easy hackin in the haia smoking laia I see the hakin of the Maia In Mandoia I feel the iaia to mahoia through my Lala I see the hackin of Ma'haia I'v gotta in Mandoia An easy hackin in the haia smoking laia

I see the hakin of the Maia In Mandoia I feel the iaia to mahoia through my Lala I see the hackin of Ma'haia so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm... so schön you can komm...

Thank you lyrics

We would like to thank:
Mr. King: for the wonderful chinese food
Moira: for lending us coffee
Yiannis: for inviting us to pay for meals
The japs: for inventing the American finger tip orchestra
The traffic warden: for the 52 parking tickets
The Queen: for her Silver Jubilee...
Romeo Ongarello: for international telecommunications
The publishers: for allowing us to earn 50% OF OUR RIGHTS

We would like to thank: Lonnie Donegan Eddie Cochran Fats Domino Jerry Lee Lewis Little Richard Bill Haley Chuck Berry Wanda Jackson Charlie Watts The Boys Mick Jagger The Saints Bill wyman Iggy Pop Neu (Ney)

Fats and his Cats Dave Anthony Mods Les Paul Sha-Na-Na Roxy Music Buddy Holly Gene Vincent Jimi Hendrix Jonny Kid Brian Jones Jim Morrison Elvis Presley Marc Bolan Louis Armstrong Bing Crosby

and to everyone alse we have forgotten in words but not in thoughts
thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts      

       

      

       

      

      

      

      

      

     

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Beemer Memory 26 ~ Vangelis, 666, Pillow & me at the Hungry i

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       Aphrodite's Child ~ 666 - 1972 

     

It doesn't seem possible that it was over forty years ago this month during my early biker days (link below) that I began to dance with Pillow to the music from 666 by Aphrodite's Child at the Hungry i (link below). We had several sets that we danced to up to that point, a leather set, etc. (link below). This set was the most simple in costume and props but it turned out to be the most successful of them all because the music from 666 was the basis for the most erotic set we were ever to perform.     

Pillow wore a simple but beautiful gold lamé dress and had gold lamé boots with the highest heels that have ever been created!       

 

Underneath the dress she wore a gold lamé thong and bra (similar to the photo below of Janine Andrews of Octopussy fame). Then Pillow would pile her hair up at least six inches high)!  

Janine Andrews

         

I wore a pair of gold lamé Speedo swim shorts, a gold lamé g-string under it and gold lamé sandals, nothing else. Where on earth I found gold lamé swim shorts pre-Internet is beyond me!    

Anyway, back to Aphrodite's Child and 666, the music was perfect for the act! Actually, the act was conceived BECAUSE of the music; it determined everything. 666 is based on the Book of Revelation and was recorded and released early in the career of Vangelis Papathanassiou. It is late prog rock and early electronic with a little bit of concrète thrown in, all of it on steroids. There is a ton of info on the album on the Vangelis lyrics site (link below). 
     

The set would start (with neither of us on stage) with the 40 second cut from the album used as an into, Seven Trumpets, a spoken piece which is more of an announcement as one might hear from a barker at a circus or at the entrance of a strip club. This led right into Altamont, my cue to enter and begin my dance.

 Seven Trumpets & Altamont on YouTube

The song is a four and a half minute grueling physical workout that would put any gym rat to shame. It kept me in terrific shape!

Styrous® - 1975
photo by Chris Arneson

I danced the song alone and directed my actions to the women in the audience, especially during the quiet breaks in the song when I would move with suggestive but muscular motions Pillow taught me; she was a body builder who competed under the name, The She-Beast (not to be confused with the 1966 film of the same name). We would only perform the set when there were women present.

Altamont mixed right into the next cut, The Wedding of the Lamb, which was when Pillow made her entrance.  

 

 The Wedding of the Lamb on YouTube

Pillow was two inches taller than me in her bare feet and with her hair piled high and her 6" heels it could have been a silly sight, however, she was like a bronzed (she always had a tan) Amazon that towered over me! The effect was awe inspiring! The waitresses told me both the women and the men in the audience loved it and they got their biggest tips during this set so they were always after us to perform it. I suppose the men had fantasies of being dominated by a big woman and the women had fantasies about dominating a man of ANY size.       

 

Pillow aka The She-Beast

 - 1983

photo by John Balik/Muscle & Fitness

I would metaphorically if not physically blend into the background and become an active spectator. The Wedding of the Lamb, is a very fast but sensual, percussion driven piece with synthesizers, a flute and a male chorus, and Pillow would work her magic on the audience. It has a quiet section in which she would seduce/entice the men. Wedding was also was a grueling workout at almost four minutes but it was great for her, as for a bodybuilder, it was a perfect workout. Boy! Was she ever buff!!!      

 

Wedding faded right into the next cut, The Capture of the Beast, which is a fast and percussive piece at the beginning of which we would circle and appraise each other almost as wrestlers or gladiators might do in a fight.          
 

The Capture of the Beast on YouTube 

This was danced with tremendous drama, almost with violence; slowly we would strip each other (well, to be honest, there wasn't much to strip off of me as I had to keep the gold lamé g-string on or get busted!)       

Our movements would alternate between brutality and sensuality. Beast ended with a swirl of sensual synthesizers which went right into the last cut in the set, Infinity, the most erotically close to porn as any song has ever come. Thus, this set was the closest we ever came to pornography. If you listen to the song, it will give you an audio depiction of the erotic quality of our set.    

Infinity on YouTube

During the "song" Greek actress Irene Papas brings herself to a verbal orgasm through the mantra “I was, I am, I am to come”. An urban legend has it that Papas sat in the recording booth masturbating while repeating the mantra and the band jammed along to the voice track (link below). Except for her verbalizing, the piece is nothing but percussion and VERY heavy on timpani. Towards the end it is deadly quiet with an occasional whimper and you could hear a pin drop in the transfixed audience! The song, and Papas, caused quite a controversy with her graphic "orgasmic" sounds.    
    

   

     

      

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“You can never repeat certain things. It's only once in a lifetime.“
                        ~ Vangelis

     
     
     
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1,001 LaserDiscs 11: Blade Runner ~ The Director's cut

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Blade Runner ~ The Director's cut

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Today is the anniversary of the release of the spectacular film, Blade Runner, released on June 25, 1982, in 1,290 theaters. That date was chosen by producer Alan Ladd Jr. because his previous highest-grossing films (Star Wars and Alien) had a similar opening date (May 25) in 1977 and 1979, making the 25th of the month his "lucky day".

Blade Runner ~ The Director's cut

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There have been many versions of the film and the history of them is very confusing (links below) but the Director's Cut without the voice over used in the original version is my favorite. In one story I read actor Harrison Ford objected to the voice over, in another Ridley Scott objected but in either case, the producers thought the audience would not get the story. A battle ensued but the producers won out and it was released with Ford doing the voice over which he has stated he hated.       

Blade Runner ~ The Director's cut

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And of course, the score for the film by Vangelis (link below) is stunning! The music ranges from heartrendingly beautiful to disturbingly surreal and eerie to dramatically thundering. It is one of finest electronic scores ever written, a dark but melodic combination of synthesizers that mirror the futuristic film noir envisioned by director Ridley Scott.

The original soundtrack release was delayed for over a decade, until 1994, despite the music being well-received by fans and critically acclaimed—it was nominated in 1983 for a BAFTA and Golden Globe as best original score. The soundtrack is regarded as a historically important piece in the genre of electronic music. 

    

Blade Runner ~ The Director's cut

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Blade Runner is a neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young, it is loosely based on the Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies. When a fugitive group of Nexus-6 replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.

Blade Runner ~ The Director's cut

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Back in the sixties I read the short story by Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which Blade Runner was based on. The book is nothing like the film version. In the book Deckard is not in the slightest bit sympathetic, warm or even human as Ford eventually becomes in the film. The story takes place in San Francisco in the book, in Los Angeles in the film. The story in the book is dismal from the start and remains so to the very end. The film ends with some hope. There are very many other differences (link below).      

Blade Runner ~ The Director's cut

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So, the upshot is I loved the film not only better but in a way I have never loved a film; and I love many.                

Blade Runner ~ The Director's cut

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Blade Runner ~ The Director's cut

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This 1991 LaserDisc pressing is on two discs and is a special widescreen edition in CAV standard play format.            

Blade Runner ~ The Director's cut

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"Blade Runner needs no explanation."   

                        ~ Rutger Hauer   

 

       
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