Cuore matto

"Cuore matto"
Single by Little Tony
from the album Questo mondo non mi va
B-side"Gente che mi parla di te"
ReleasedJanuary 1967
GenrePop
LabelDurium Records
Songwriter(s)Armando Ambrosino and Totò Savio
Little Tony singles chronology
"Perdonala"
(1966) 		"Cuore matto"
(1967) 		"Peggio per me"
(1967)

"Cuore matto" (transl. "Crazy Heart") is a song composed by Armando Ambrosino and Totò Savio, and performed by Little Tony. The song premiered at the seventeenth Sanremo Music Festival, in which Little Tony presented the song in couple with Mario Zelinotti.[1]

The single peaked at first place for nine consecutive weeks on the Italian hit parade.[2][3] It sold in excess of a million copies and was awarded a gold disc in May 1967.[4]

The song also named a film, Cuore matto... matto da legare , directed by Mario Amendola and starred by the same Little Tony and by Eleonora Brown.[5]

The song was later covered by several artists, including Dalida, Gianni Morandi, Teruhiko Saigō, Fausto Leali and Kati Kovács. It was also used in several films, notably Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged[6] and Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education.[7]

  1. ^ Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 978-8863462296.
  2. ^ Dario Salvatori (1989). Storia dell'Hit Parade. Gramese, 1989. ISBN 8876054391.
  3. ^ "Addio all'Elvis italiano E' morto Little Tony, mister "Cuore matto"". Libero. 28 May 2013. Archived from the original on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  4. ^ Joseph Murrells (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). Barrie and Jenkins Ltd., 1978. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
  5. ^ Roberto Poppi; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.
  6. ^ Fabien S. Gerard; Thomas Jefferson Kline; Bruce H. Sklarew (2000). Bernardo Bertolucci: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2000. ISBN 1578062055.
  7. ^ Leonardo Godano, Matteo Nucci (12 April 2007). "La Mala di Pedro". Film.it. Retrieved 29 November 2014.