Senti l’Eco [Hear the Echo] Foxtrot - Orchestra Dino Olivieri with Vocal Refrain by F. Crivel, La Voce del Padrone 1939/40 (Italy)
NOTE: Dino OLIVIERI (sometimes referred to as Oliveri) (b.Senigallia, 1905 – d. Milan, 1963) was Italian composer and dance-band conductor. Dino Olivieri graduated in piano, harmony and composition at the Conservatory of Music in Pesaro. In the mid-1930s he began career writing arrangements and orchestrations for various artists and writing his own songs - from which the slow-fox “Tornerai” was launched in 1937 by Trio Lescano and soon becoming also a hit in France, where it was sung and recorded in 1939 by Rina Ketty under the title “J’attendrai”. When the song entered the repertoire of such artists as Tino Rossi, Jean Sablon, Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra – it became an internetional evergreen. This success immediately changed Olivieri’s position and soon he became artistic director of the hugest Italian record company La Voce del Padrone (Italian branch of His Master’s Voice). As conductor, he preferred the soft-dance or the promenade repertioire, yet many of his renditions contain also the pure big-band jazzy arrangements, many of which belong to the gems in Italian dance music history. Olivieri was artistically active until his death. Through 1940-50s he composed many hits for popular Italian singers such as Alberto Rabagliati, Gabriela Ferri, Carla Boni or Nilla Pizzi, also his orchestra and his person were fundamental for the growth of international recognition of San Remo song festivals in the 1950s.
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Completely different was musical career proceeded by the singer CRIVEL (stage name of Ferdinand Crivelli, b. in Milan, 1889 – d. in Alba Adriatica, 1960). In 1920, through 1930s until the end of the WW2, he recorded dozens of hits and was very popular on the radio. Unfortunately, better remembered than his dance hits were pro-fascist songs he was recording in equally large number. That ofcourse meant for him oblivion after the collapse of Mussolini’s regime and Il Duce’s death in 1945.
