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Speak To Me Of Love
Mario Lanza
33MLanza M1
Joe´s Music
Rack
Part of
YOUR KEY TO
COLLECTIBLES©
Speak To Me Of Love
Mario Lanza
33MLanza M1
RCA Records Red Seal...LSC 3103(e)...[1969]...33 1/3 LP
Side 1
1) Parlami d´amore, Mariu...2:35
2) Wanting You...2:25
3) My Destiny...2:30
4) Ay-Ay-Ay...2:44
5) Serenade...1:53
Side 2
1) Roses of Picardy...4:35
2) Love in a Home...2:24
3) Softly As in a Morning Sunrise...3:22
4) I Know, I Know, I Know...3:59
5) Earthbound...3:13
ON THE BACK OF THE JACKET
(e) Stereo Effect Reprocessed from Monphonic
RCA STEREO RECORDS may be played on any modern
phonograph with a lightweight tone arm.
You will hear excellent sound reproduction on a mono player and
full stereo sound on a stereo player.
Speak To Me Of Love
Mario Lanza
| Side 1 Parlami d´amore, Mariù1 (Neri-Bixio) (ASCAP 2:35) Wanting You (from "The Moon") (Hammerstein-Romberg) (ASCAP 2:30) My Destiny (from "Serenade") (Cahn-Brodszky) (ASCAP 2:30) When You´re in Love1 (Laine-Fischer) (ASCAP 3:10) Ay-Ay-Ay1 (Perez Freire) (P.D. 2:44) Serenade2 (from "Serenade") (Cahn-Brodszky) (ASCAP 1:53) |
Side 2 Roses of Picardy´ (Weatherly-Wood) (ASCAP 4:36) Softly As in a Morning Sunrise1 (from "The New Moon") (Hammerstein-Romberg) (ASCAP 3:22) Love in a Home´ (from "Li´l Abner") (Mercer-DePaul) (ASCAP 2:24) I Know, I Know, I Know" (from "That Midnight Kiss") (Kaper-Russell) (ASCAP 3:59) Earthbound3 (Taylor-Richardson-Musel) (BMI 3:13) |
| Mario Lanza sat calmly on a spindly gold
chair sipping ginger ale in a Pittsburgh hotel suite. Several publicity men hovered over several mem- bers of the local press in the standard interview pattern that would result in feature stories in the evening and morning papers headlined, "Crowds Besiege Lanza Hotel" and "The Great Mario Here to Promote 'The Great Caruso.'" That same morning a frenzied crowd had actually crashed through a department store window as thou- sands strained to glimpse Mario arriving to auto- graph copies of his latest album. xxAt the end of the interview one newspaperman was heard to say, "I'm really amazed. He answered all my questions-and even when I brought up this bit about being controversial, he just laughed. Nice plain guy." xxNice plain guy was one of the things Mario Lanza wanted to be. And he wanted to bring music -and all the dreams and romance of music-into the lives of the many millions. There were hot-eyed promoters and musical purists who heard in that golden voice the chance to set new landmarks in serious music history-possibly to satisfy ambi- tions of their own. But Mario was moved by a different impulse. He wanted to reach and enrich |
the lives of the many. How well did he succeed ?
To this day, many sad years after his untimely death, letters continue to pour into his parental home- passionate letters, love for a man and a voice that touched the hearts of people the world over. xxPhiladelphia-South Philadelphia´s Italian neighborhood-is where it all started. Mario was born January 31, 1921, of an Italian father and a Spanish mother. His boyhood: baseball, football, boxing-but over it all, the recorded voice of Enrico Caruso. Teen-age brought serious music study. Then that all-important first break: Help- ing to move a piano into a rehearsal room at Philadelphia´s Academy of Music, Mario was heard singing by the renowned conductor Serge Koussevitzky. An invitation to study and to sing at the world-famous Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood followed. In The New York Times, critic Noel Straus reviewed Mario´s performance there in The Merry Wives of Windsor: "Honors went to the 'Fenton' of the cast, 21-year-old Mario Lanza, whose superb natural voice has few equals among tenors of the day. . . ." While in the Air- Force, Mario made Broadway in the service spec- tacular Winged Victory. xxThen the turning point: an exclusive recording |
contract with RCA-and the release of Be My Love. With that one mighty recorded performance Mario Lanza reached the ears and hearts of mil- lions-and the decision was made for him: Hence- forth his art would be dedicated to the many. The movies-The Toast of New Orleans, That Mid- night Kiss, The Great Caruso, Serenade and others -broke box-office records. On radio Mario´s Coca- Cola shows were the high points of the week´s listening. On records an avalanche of hits kept pressing plants working three shifts around the clock. xxThat life and that career-what did it all add up to? A young girl in Chicago pours out her heart in a letter to "Dear Mario." In San Diego a house- wife treasures a scrapbook of yellowing clippings. In Boston a shirt-sleeved shipping clerk listens to a well-worn record album and remembers. These are the people-the little ones, the lonely ones-by the millions that Mario Lanza reached out to. Let somebody else charm the audience at the Met. Mario´s voice and heart poured out to the multi- tudes who needed him. xxIn this album, songs of love-a memento of the great years and the dream of Mario Lanza, who spoke of love. |
The Mario Lanza Institute awards voice scholarships to young,
promising singers,
while the Memorial Society coordinates all the activities of the
many Lanza fan clubs throughout the world.
| The Mario Lanza Memorial Society Lanza House 108 East 41st Street Wilmington, Delaware 19802 |
The Mario Lanza Institute 1414 Snyder Avenue South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19145 |
Other Mario Lama albums now available in stereo
effect reprocessed from monophonic:
Mario Lanza in Opera .................LSC-3101(e)
Mario Lanza/Memories ................LSC-3102(e)
Younger Than Springtime .............LSC-3049(e)
library of Congress Card Number 74-760213 applies to this recording.
TM (S) ® by Radio Corporation of America
© 1969, RCA Records, New York, N.Y. * Printed in
U.S.A.
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