Piero Umiliani

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Piero Umiliani (17 July 1926 – 14 February 2001) was an Italian composer of film scores, and is most famous for his song "Mah Nà Mah Nà".

Biography

Umiliani was born in Florence, Tuscany. Like many of his Italian colleagues at that time, he composed the scores for many exploitation films in the 1960s and 1970s, covering genres such as spaghetti western, Eurospy, Giallo, and soft sex films.

Although not as widely regarded as, for example, Ennio Morricone or Riz Ortolani, he helped form the style of the typical European 1960s and 1970s jazz influenced film soundtrack, that later experienced a revival in films such as Kill Bill ^{[citation needed]}, and "Crepuscolo Sul Mare" in Ocean's Twelve.

"Mah Nà Mah Nà" (1968) was originally used for a Mondo documentary about Sweden (Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso), but was popularized by the Muppets, who covered the song several times; starting on episode 0014 of Sesame Street on 27 November 1969, then The Ed Sullivan Show on 30 November 1969, and again on the syndicated The Muppet Show in 1977. The track was also a hit in the UK, reaching #8 in the UK Singles chart in May 1977.^[1]

Umiliani died in Rome in February 2001, at the age of 74.

References

↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 575. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

External links

Piero Umiliani at the Internet Movie Database
Official Website

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 40607101 LCCN: n00073728 ISNI: 0000 0000 5936 845X GND: 135225892 SUDOC: 074045717

Persondata
Name	Umiliani, Piero
Alternative names
Short description	Italian composer
Date of birth	17 July 1926
Place of birth
Date of death	14 February 2001
Place of death

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