Volume 1 (Fabrizio De André album)

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Volume 1
Volume 1 cover
Studio album by Fabrizio De André
Released 1967
Recorded July 18/July 25, 1964
Genre Folk
Length 30:29
Label Bluebell Records
Produttori Associati
Ricordi
BMG
Producer Gian Piero Reverberi
A. Malcotti
Fabrizio De André chronology
Tutto Fabrizio De André
(1966)		 Volume 1
(1967)		 Tutti morimmo a stento
(1968)

Volume 1 is the second album released by Fabrizio De André, although his first true studio album.

It was issued in 1967 on Bluebell Records, in two different versions, the first with a brown cover, and the second with a photografich cover with Fabrizio's face.

It was reissued in 1970 by Produttori Associati with a little different track listing, by Ricordi in 1978 and, finally, by BMG in 1994, both times with the same tracklist of Produttori Associati.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Fabrizio De André, except where indicated.

  1. "Preghiera in Gennaio" (3:28)
  2. "Marcia Nuziale" (De André, Georges Brassens) (3:10)
  3. "Spiritual" (2:34)
  4. "Si Chiamava Gesù" (3:09)
  5. "La Canzone di Barbara" (2:17)
  6. "Via del Campo" (De André, Enzo Jannacci) (2:31)
  7. "Caro Amore" (De André, Joaquín Rodrigo) (3:57)
  8. "Bocca di Rosa" (3:05)
  9. "La Morte" (De André, Georges Brassens) (2:22)
  10. "Carlo Martello Ritorna dalla Battaglia di Poitiers" (De André, Paolo Villaggio) (5:21)

[edit] The Songs

  • "Preghiera in Gennaio" is dedicated to singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco, who committed suicide in 1967.
  • "Marcia nuziale" is a translated version of the song "La Marche nuptiale", written in 1956 by Georges Brassens.
  • "Via del Campo" features the music of a Enzo Jannacci song, "La mia morosa la và alla fonte", which De André mistakenly believed to be a medieval ballad.
  • "Bocca di Rosa" is based on Brassens' song "Brave Margot", which he wrote in 1952.
  • "Carlo Martello ritorna dalla battaglia di Poitiers", co-written with actor Paolo Villaggio, is based on the figure of Charles Martel, and tells an episode of his return to France after the Battle of Poitiers.
  • On the 1970 edition, "Caro Amore" was replaced by "La stagione del tuo amore" (2:58).
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