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| Released | 1976 | |||
| Genre | Italian singer-songwriters | |||
| Length | 36 min. | |||
| Label | RCA Italia | |||
| Producer | Francesco De Gregori | |||
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Bufalo Bill is an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco De Gregori. It was released in 1976 by RCA Italia. The title is an intentional misspelling of Buffalo Bill's name: buffalo is often rendered in Italian as "bufalo", although specifically defining a different animal in that language.
The cover is a portrait by American artist Gil Elvgren, from a 1948 magazine.
The album
The album include some of the most popular De Gregori songs, including the title track (a ballad about a disillusioned Buffalo Bill and about contradictions of the American myth, partially inspired by the Sam Peckinpah film The Ballad of Cable Hogue), the romantic " Atlantide" and the desperate anthem "Santa Lucia".
"Festival" is about the suicide of singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco at the Sanremo Festival, and the hypocrisy with which media dealt with that event.
The music of "Giovane esploratore Tobia" was co-written with Lucio Dalla, who had also collaborated with two songs on the previous De Gregori album, Rimmel.
Personnel
- Mario Scotti – Bass
- Roberto "Bob Rose" Rosati – Guitar
- Carlo Felice Marcovecchio – Drums
- Antonio "Toto" Torquati – Hammond organ
- Baba Yaga – Voices
Track listing
- "Bufalo Bill"
- "Giovane esploratore Tobia"
- "L'uccisione di Babbo Natale "
- "Disastro aereo sul canale di Sicilia"
- "Ninetto e la colonia"
- "Atlantide"
- "Ipercarmela"
- "Ultimo discorso registrato"
- "Festival"
- "Santa Lucia"
All songs written by Francesco De Gregori, apart "Giovane esploratore Tobia", music co-written by Lucio Dalla.
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