Frutta e verdura

Frutta e verdura is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1973 by PDU and originally distributed by EMI Italiana as a double album along with Amanti di valore.^[5] This pair of albums spent eight consecutive weeks at the first place of the Italian chart.^[6]

Frutta e verdura
Studio album by Mina
Released	23 October 1973 (1973-10-23)[1]
Recorded	1972–1973
Studio	La Basilica, Milan[2] Fonorama, Milan[3]
Genre	Pop bossa nova
Length	38:50
Language	Italian
Label	PDU
Mina chronology
Del mio meglio n. 2 (1973) Frutta e verdura (1973) Amanti di valore (1973)
Singles from Frutta e verdura
"E poi..." Released: October 1973[4]

The cover of this album is the first one created by Mauro Balletti.^[7]

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Fa qualcosa"	Alberto Testa Walter Malgoni	3:58
2.	"Non tornare più"	Dario Baldan Bembo Franco Califano	4:42
3.	"Devo tornare a casa mia"	Luigi Clausetti	3:50
4.	"Domenica sera"	Stefano Scandolara Corrado Castellari	3:20
5.	"La vigilia di Natale"	Andrea Lo Vecchio Shel Shapiro	3:38
Total length:			19:28

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Questo sì, questo no"	Pino Donaggio Giorgio Calabrese	4:20
2.	"E poi..."	Lo Vecchio Shapiro	4:47
3.	"Dichiarazione d'amore"	Alberto Anelli Vito Pallavicini	3:00
4.	"La pioggia di marzo (Aguas de Março)"	Antônio Carlos Jobim Giorgio Calabrese	3:40
5.	"Tentiamo ancora"	Lo Vecchio Giuseppe Prestipino	3:35
Total length:			19:22

Personnel

• Mina – vocals
• Pino Presti – arrangement (A1, A4–B5), bass, piano, Rhodes piano
• Dario Baldan Bembo – arrangement (A2)
• Natale Massara [it] – arrangement (A3)
• Nuccio Rinaldis – sound engineering
• Mario Carulli – recording (A3)
• Massimo Verardi – acoustic guitar, mandolin
• Dino Comolli's "I musicals" – backing vocals
• Renè Mantegna [it] – conga
• Tullio De Piscopo – drums
• Andrea Sacchi – electric and acoustic guitar
• Sergio Farina [it] – electric guitar
• Hugo Heredia [it] – flute
• Victor Bacchetta [it] – piano, Hammond organ
• Oscar Valdambrini – trumpet
• Al Korvin – trumpet
• Fermo Lini – trumpet
• Giuliano Bernicchi – trumpet
• Sergio Almangano [it] – violin
• Arturo Prestipino Giarritta [it] – violin
• Dino Comolli – whistling (A4)
• Mauro Balletti – photography
• Luciano Tallarini – artwork, design

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[3]

Charts

Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for Frutta e verdura and Amanti di valore Chart (1974) Peak position Italian Albums (Billboard)[8] 2 Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[6] 1 Chart performance for Frutta e verdura Chart (1974) Peak position Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[6] 2

Monthly charts Monthly chart performance for Frutta e verdura and Amanti di valore Chart (1974) Peak position Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[9] 1

Cover versions

Some of the songs of this album have been recorded in different languages by Mina during the 1970s. "Non tornare più" was covered and released in French ("Les oiseaux reviennent") in a 1974 as a single. "Devo tornare a casa mia" was covered in 1975 in Spanish, "Debo volver ya con los mios", as well as "Questo sì, questo no" ("Esto sì, esto no"). "Domenica sera" has three different versions: in Spanish ("Domingo a la noche"), in German ("Die Liebe am Sonntag") and in English ("Don't Ask Me To Love You"). "E poi..." was recorded in other four languages: English ("Runaway"), Spanish ("¿Y que?""), french ("Et puis ça sert à quoi") and German ("Und dann"). There is also versions of the song in 1992 album Sorelle Lumière, in which the song was mixed with Riccardo Cocciante's "Un nuovo amico".

References

1. "Frutta e verdura". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
2. "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
3. Mina (1973). Frutta e verdura (liner notes). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 5069. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
4. "E poi.../Non tornare più". Discografia nazionale della canzone italiana (in Italian). Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
5. Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). "Numero Uno". Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Graphe.it Edizioni. p. 34. ISBN 9788893720885. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
6. Racca, Guido (2019). "Mina". M&D borsa album 1964–2019 (in Italian). Amazon Digital Services LLC – Kdp Print Us. pp. 225–228. ISBN 978-1094705002.
7. Neri, Michele (7 October 2018). "Interview with Mauro Balletti". Vogue Italia. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
8. Ruscitto, Germano (25 May 1974). "Hits of the World – Italy" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 86, no. 21. p. 64. ISSN 0006-2510.
9. Racca, Guido (2020). "I numeri uno mensili" (PDF). M&D classifiche mensili – album 1964–2019 (in Italian). Amazon Digital Services LLC – Kdp Print Us. p. 17.

External links

• Frutta e verdura at Discogs (list of releases)
• Frutta e verdura/Amanti di valore at Discogs