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Rocco Granata - 20 Hits

Genre: Pop, Evergreen, Oldies
Format: Mp3
Bitrate: 320 Kbps
Grootte: 145 Mb 
Covers: Front en back

Son of Italian immigrants in Belgium, Rocco Granata didn"t want to go to work in the mine-pits but prefers making music with his friends. They tour the province with sentimental Italian songs and cheerful accordion-music The success-number is "Manuela". When a dance-club owner suddenly gives Rocco the chance to record on vinyl, he hastily pens down a song : "Marina".
40 years later the balance stands at more than 100,000,000 copies of that song sold at the counter of the music stores. The song has become an "evergreen". About a thousand artists have made a cover-version (among who are the likes of Dalida and Louis Armstrong).
In 1989 he lets Serge Ramaekers (the Dee-jay of the Club Confetti"s and the man behind the new-beat band with the same name) make a remix of his "Marina". The successful new-beat producer takes it all the way to number 1 in Belgium again, over 30 years after the original. The remixed song also becomes a monster-hit again in Italy (12 weeks on the n° 1 spot) and Germany (over 2.000.000 copies sold).
Although he has continued to make music ever since and has sold many copies of his other songs (altogether he made it 9 times to the top 10 of the Belgian hitparades), the enormity of the success of "Marina" basically has reduced Rocco to a "one-hit wonder".


Tracklist:

01. Marina (2:44)
02. Alles War Schoen (2:52)
03. Oh Oh Rosi (2:16)
04. Buona Notte Bambino (3:03)
05. Yolanda (2:00)
06. Manuela (3:52)
07. Irena (2:46)
08. Paradiso (4:31)
09. Das Sind Die Tage (3:05)
10. Isabella (2:57)
11. Donna Donna (3:07)
12. Aquatic (3:31)
13. Ein Italiano (2:04)
14. Was Heist Auf Deutsch (3:01)
15. Sospiri (4:04)
16. La Bella (2:56)
17. Bea,beatrice Mia (3:22)
18. Sarah (2:56)
19. Die Nacht Ist Zum Schlafen Da (2:38)
20. Guten Abend, Gut" Nacht (2:27)