Flashback: Rita Pavone [IMPORT]

Rita Pavone

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 15, 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony/Bmg Italy
• ASIN: B00005M16S
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #233,460 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rita Pavone - a tiny singer with a big voice, April 26, 2002

By	John Napper (Milton Keynes, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I first discovered Rita Pavone in 1966 when she had two minor hits in the UK, 'Heart' and 'You,Only You' I bought both along with the less successful 'Sunshine Boy' in 1968. Until recently I knew nothing else about this Italian singer with the marvelous voice.
Thanks to Amazon I was able to buy this Greatest Hits CD. It is all in Italian. I can't understand a word. It doesn't matter. This is marvelous music and includes 'Cuore', the Italian version of my favourite song, 'Heart' in a very different arrangement. Her amazing voice copes easily with a wide variety of material from the powerful balad 'Fortissimo' to the Italian version of a song I imagined to be untranslatable, 'Supercalifragelisticexpialidocious' from Mary Poppins which sounds so much better than I remember it in English. I could go on for ever. I've played no other CD since I bought it a month ago.
Supercalifragelisticesperalidoso.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Italian singer of the sixties, April 13, 2005

By	Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Rita has a very powerful voice but controls it well on this selection of songs, mostly from the sixties and all sung in Italian. Rita was a huge star in several countries although she only managed top hits in Britain (Heart, You only you) , both of which made the top thirty but not the top twenty.. The Italian version of Heart (Cuore) opens this set. Although released as a double CD, all 24 tracks would comfortably fit on a single CD.

Not knowing any Italian, many of the songs are unfamiliar to me but I recognized Datemi un Martello (If I had a hammer - Pete Seeger), Qui ritornera (Here it comes again - Fortunes), Stai con me (Stand by me -Ben E King) and Supercalafrigilistichespiralidoso (Supercalafragilisticexpialadocious - Julie Andrews). One or two others sound familiar but I can't name them.

An understanding of Italian is not essential - Rita's powerful, expressive voice is a delight to hear.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, June 8, 2007

By	Charles Ginetto (NYC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Flashback: Patty Pravo (Audio CD)

I returned these CDs because they bore no resemblance to what they were advertised to be, i.e., Patty's original recordings.