Renzo Arbore

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Renzo Arbore, at the registry office Lorenzo Giovanni Arbore (Foggia, 24 June 1937), is a singer-songwriter, disc jockey, radio host, clarinetist, showman, actor, screenwriter, director and Italian television personality.

He is considered the first Italian disc jockey.

Renzo Arbore is the son of a dentist and a housewife. However, before graduating in law in Naples, he began to distinguish himself in Foggia, his hometown, in the historic Taverna del Gufo in the historic center and near Via Arpi, after having been, previously, following a famous jazz complex foggiano, Parker's Boys, also as a clarinetist. The debut on stage takes place at 18, in a dixieland band, in the city of Nocera Inferiore [2].

He is interested in light music and jazz: his collaboration with RAI dates back to 1964: he deals with variety broadcasts (Yellow Flag, High rating, The other Sunday, Dear friends near and far ..., Back all!) ; in 1996 he was artistic director of the RAI Radio programs.

In his multi-faceted activity he has won successes in various fields: good musician and singer with the Italian Orchestra, radio and television host - radio shows remain memorable, presented together with Gianni Boncompagni: Bandiera giallo (1965), For you young (1967) , High approval (1970) and television: Special for you (1969-1970), a kind of trial to the singers of the period, The other Sunday (1976-1979), his first real success in which he created an alternative style live competition with the contemporary Domenica in di Corrado, Quelli della notte (1985), Back all! (1988) and the recent Special for me - the less we are better (2005). He was also an actor and film director (Il pap'occhio, 1980; "FF.SS." - That is: "... what have you brought me to do on top of Posillipo if you do not love me anymore?", 1983).

He had the merit of discovering and launching new characters such as Roberto Benigni, Gegé Telesforo, Giorgio Bracardi, Mario Marenco, Marisa Laurito, Nino Frassica, Milly Carlucci, Daniele Luttazzi and others like Michele Mirabella, Luciano De Crescenzo and the Microband, the actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Nina Soldano, the TV presenters Luana Ravegnini and Ilaria D'Amico, the actor Francesco Paolantoni, the presenter Feliciana Iaccio, the singer Pietra Montecorvino.

His experiences in the musical world began in 1972, with the "NU Orleans Rubbish Band" (where the letters are set for "Nettezza Urbana" [3]), which was composed, as well as by the same Arbore to the clarinet, by Fabrizio Zampa on drums, Mauro Chiari on bass, Massimo Catalano on trombone and Franco Bracardi on piano; this group published a 45 rpm, containing She was not an angel and The stage boy, recorded for play by five.

In 1991 he founded L'Orchestra Italiana, with fifteen great soloists to enhance the classic Neapolitan song, restoring dignity, among other things, to the mandolin.



Former president of "Umbria Jazz", he gave an intelligent contribution to the rebirth of the great Perugian jazz event. In 2002 he founded a new band, "Renzo Arbore and his Swing Maniacs", personally choosing the musicians among the best of the Roman and national jazz scene: the saxophonist Fabiano "Red" Pellini, the guitarist Emanuele Basentini, the pianist and saxophonist Giorgio Cuscito, the drummer Alberto Botta and the pianist Attilio Di Giovanni, among others, have played in this mighty swing band. It does not dissolve, however, the Italian Orchestra, with which it continues to perform for various events alternating with the newborn band. In 2004 he performed in three concerts with the Italian Orchestra: at Carnegie Hall in New York, at the CasinoRama in Toronto and at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome in the presence of President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. With the Swing Maniacs he recorded a double CD released in February 2005, the Vintage album, but he does not show it, awarded with the "Golden Record".

In 2008 he gave voice to the dromedary Tutankamon in the animated film La luna nel deserto directed by Cosimo Damiano Damato.

For many years he has been president of an association of Italian disc-jockeys and he also performs as a jazz clarinet player. For over 20 years he has been the testimonial of the Lega del Filo d'Oro [4], a non-profit association that assists some deafblind people.

In 2009 he sang in the last album by Claudio Baglioni Q.P.G.A., in the song Buon Compleanno. On 28th July 2013 the Renzo Arbore and L'Orchestra Italiana tour will take part in the 43rd edition of the Giffoni film festival.

On 27 November 2015 the President of the Campania Region Vincenzo De Luca appointed him, together with Giovanni Minoli and Lia Rumma, on the council of the Ravello Foundation of the homonymous town of the Amalfi Coast.
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Geno

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Voce 'e Notte -  Renzo Arbore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IMM0VkBrqc

Voce 'e notte is a Neapolitan song composed in 1903 and published in 1904 by Bideri music editions. The text was written by Edoardo Nicolardi, while the music was made by Ernesto De Curtis.

The version sung by Renzo Arbore and the Italian orchestra is appreciable.
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Geno

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Luna Rossa - Renzo Arbore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao6Q94RVnO8

Luna rossa is a Neapolitan song published in 1950 and known both in Italy and abroad. It has been recorded by numerous singers in different languages.

Written by Vincenzo De Crescenzo and music by Antonio Vian, the song was presented for the first time during the Piedigrotta Festival in 1950 at the Teatro Augusteo in Naples, sung by Giorgio Consolini, accompanied by the Nello Segurini orchestra. In a short time the song became very popular becoming one of the successes of the post-war period, not only in Naples but also in Italy and abroad, coming to be translated into 42 languages and dialects. Claudio Villa will make it his warhorse. Arrived in the United States of America, it will be recorded by singers like Frank Sinatra (Blushing Moon).
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Geno

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Bongo Bongo - Renzo Arbore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYF44QOi064

Bongo Bongo Bongo is the Italian version (text by Devilli) of the song Civilization by Bob Hilliard and Carl Sigman. Also brought to success in 1947 by Nilla Pizzi and Luciano Benevene, it was also recorded in 1949 by the two singers together with the Duo Fasano.

Sung by the character of Lina Stroppiani (played by Sophia Loren) in the film by Alessandro Blasetti Peccato is a rogue (1954), in 1985 it was revived by Renzo Arbore in the television program Quelli della notte and at the end of the Nineties by the duo Rino Tommasi and Gianni Clerici as an introduction to their tennis commentary from Melbourne. In 1994 it was engraved by Christian De Sica.

The original American version was represented in Broadway in 1947 in the musical Angel in the Wings and was also recorded by Andrews Sisters with Danny Kaye.

He is also present on the soundtrack of the Fallout 3 video games of 2008, Fallout 4 of 2015 and in the film 'The most beautiful school in the world' by L. Miniero of 2014
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Geno

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Ma la notte no -   Renzo Arbore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU_YWzHL1sk

But the night was not (which was also proposed as the title of the broadcast as an alternative to Those of the night) and The mattress.
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