Salvatore Adamo - Platinum Collection (FLAC) (3 CDs Set) - 2005
EAC rip | 3CD | FLAC - Log - Cue | Full Scans | Release: 2005 | 1.32 GB
Genre: French Chanson, Pop, Oldies | Label: EMI Music Belgium

Excellent song collection of the famous Sicilian-Belgian singer of the sixties Salvatore Adamo. The 60 biggest hits are included at the original versions plus 2 bonus tracks (21 & 22 of CD1) never recorded before ("inedits"). Over 3:30 hours of nostalgic french music.
Salvatore, Knight Adamo, simply known as Adamo (born 1 November 1943, Comiso, Sicily, Italy) is a Belgian composer and singer of ballads, mainly in French, but also in other languages such as German, Italian and Spanish. He had commercial success during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in Europe and Latin America, but also in Japan and the United States. He now lives in Belgium. He is of Sicilian/Italian ancestry.

His father Antonio, a well digger, emigrated to Belgium in February 1947 to work in the mines of Marcinelle, and in June of the same year, his wife, Concetta, a housewife, and their son Adamo joined him in the town of Ghlin (Mons) before moving to Jemappes (Mons). In 1950, Adamo was bedridden for a year with meningitis. Adamo’s parents did not want their son to become a miner, so Adamo went to a Catholic school run by the Freres des Ecoles Chretiennes. By 1960, the family of Antonio and Concetta Adamo had seven children overall. Adamo grew up in Jemappes (Mons) where he was a dedicated student at school and distinguished himself in Music and the arts, in general, from an early age, making an impression with his singing abilities. Although Adamo has spent most of his life in Belgium, he remains a citizen of Italy and a permanent resident of Belgium because Belgium, as in many other countries, does not accept dual citizenship. At the end of the 1960s, Adamo married Nicole. Their son, Anthony, was born in 1969, while in the 1980s Benjamin and then Amelie were born. At the height of Adamo's stardom, his father died by drowning on 7 August 1966. In 1984, Adamo had heart problems which necessitated a heart bypass operation and a temporary though total withdrawal from work. Since 1993, he has been an honorary UNICEF ambassador from Belgium and, in this capacity, has visited countries such as Vietnam, Lebanon, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and others. In 2001, Adamo was named a chevalier by Albert II, King of the Belgians. In 2004, health problems forced Adamo to cancel a scheduled tour but, since 2007, he is touring again. Recently. he has performed in Espinho, Portugal. There are versions of "Tombe la Neige", (one of his many international hits) in Bulgarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian.

Adamo's early influences were the poetry of Victor Hugo, the music of French crooners such as Jacques Prevert or Georges Brassens, and the Italian canzonette. He started singing and composing his own songs from an early age. His debut was in a Radio Luxembourg competition, where he participated as singer and composer of the song "Si j'osais" ("If I dared") winning the competition's final held in Paris, in 14 February 1960.
Adamo's first hit was "Sans toi, ma mie", in 1963, from his debut album 63/64. He followed this with a series of hits, "Tombe la neige" ("The snow falls"), "Vous permettez Monsieur" ("May I, Sir"), "La Nuit" ("The Night") (1964), "Dolce Paola" ("Sweet Paola"), "Les Filles du bord de mer" ("The girls at the beach"), "Mes mains sur tes hanches" ("My hands on your hips") (1965), "Ton Nom" ("Your Name"), "Une meche de cheveux" ("Lock of golden hair") (1966), "Une larme aux nuages" ("A tear to the clouds"), "Inch'Allah" (1967), "L'amour te ressemble" ("Love resembles you"), "F... comme femme" ("F... like woman") (1968), "A demain sur la lune" ("See you tomorrow on the moon"), "Petit bonheur" ("Small happiness") (1969), "Va mon bateau" ("My boat goes"), "Les belles dames" ("Beautiful ladies") (1970), "J'avais oublie que les roses sont roses" ("I had forgotten that the roses are pink") (1971), "C'est ma vie" ("It's my life") (1975). Other notable songs included "Manuel", "Si Tu Etais", "Les Collines De Rabiah", "J'Te Lache Plus", "Mourir Dans Tes Bras", and "Ce George(s)". The self-penned "Petit bonheur" sold over one million copies by April 1970, and was awarded a gold disc. Amalia Rodrigues recorded "Inch'Allah" in French. Adamo briefly attempted movie acting when he was cast in the film Les Arnaud (1967), which starred Bourvil. He has recorded in many languages and, besides France and Belgium, had hits in Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and also in Japan, where he toured repeatedly. Adamo has had hits and toured also in Latin America. In Chile, the audience awarded him an appreciation prize known as the "Antorcha" (Gold and Silver Torch) at the "Festival de Vina del Mar" held yearly in the "Quinta Vergara", at the seaside resort of Vina del Mar, where he once had to sing in three different, sold-out venues in the same night. In the 1980s, Adamo's career faltered, as the style of his music was no longer fashionable. Since the 1990s, however, and on the crest of a nostalgia wave, Adamo has successfully resumed composing, issuing records and touring, starting with a full season at the Casino de Paris venue in April 1990. Adamo has sold over 100 million copies of recordings worldwide.

TRACKLIST

CD1
01. A demain sur la lune
02. A vot' bon coeur
03. Amour perdu
04. Ballade de la pluie
05. C'est ma vie
06. Caresse
07. Chanson en rondelles
08. Comme toujours
09. Crier ton nom
10. Dolce Paola
11. Eddy Cochran, Buddy Holly and Brassens
12. Elle Etait Belle Pourtant
13. En Bandouliere
14. En blue jeans et blouson d'cuir
15. Ensemble
16. Et t'oublier
17. F... comme femme
18. Il y a juste un an
19. Inch' Allah
20. J'Ai Tant de Reves dans Mes Bagages
21. Bonsai (bonus track)
22. Je suis seul (bonus track)

CD2
01 J'aime
02 J'avais oublie que les roses sont roses
03 Je t'aimais
04 Je vous offre
05 L'amour te ressemble
06 La nuit
07 Le barbu sans barbe
08 Le mal de toi
09 Le neon
10 Le ruisseau de mon enfance
11 Le taureau et l'enfant
12 Les amours de journaux
13 Les filles du bord de mer
14 Les heures bleues
15 Marie la mer
16 Mes mains sur tes hanches
17 Mourir dans tes bras
18 N'est-ce pas merveilleux
19 Notre roman
20 Nous

CD3
01 Nous n'avons jamais parle d'amour
02 On se bat toujours quelque part
03 Oui, la mer a berce tant d'amour dans le creux de ses vagues le temps d'un ete
04 Partir
05 Pauvre Verlaine
06 Petit bonheur
07 Quand les roses
08 Quand passent les gitans
09 Que voulez-vous que je chante (live)
10 Sans toi ma mie
11 Si jamais
12 Tombe la neige
13 Ton nom
14 Une larme aux nuages
15 Une meche de cheveux
16 Va mon bateau
17 Valse d'ete
18 Viens ma brune
19 Vivre
20 Vous permettez, Monsieur

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