Sterbus - Gina Lollabridgida (Cardiacs cover)

Last 19th September we've had the pleasure to be invited to play at The Fighting Cocks in Kingston for a Tim Smith benefit - you all know who Tim Smith is, don't you? - and we thought "what can we possibly do that will amaze everyone?" so me and my co-conspirator Dominique decided to start our set with Fear by the Spratleys Japs, and to close the concert with that 237-chords long beast that is Dirty Boy... All done with just a clean Telecaster, a clarinet, and two voices!
But we thought that the "main course" of the evening had to be this relaxed and slow-paced rendition of one of our favorites Cardiacs songs, Gina Lollobrigida (she's an italian actress, and we love her movies!) ... I can imagine young Tim being inspired by her!
We didn't announce the song live, as it is so different from the original that we wanted to see when the pond identified it... they actually had to wait the start of the vocals to recognize it :)
We promised to record our version as soon as possible, and here it is!
In loving memory of Gina Lollobrigida (1927-2023)
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Recorded @DB Recording Studio in Bagni di Tivoli (Rome, Italy)
by Francesco Grammatico on 6 - 7 December 2015.
Dominique D'Avanzo - lead vocals, harmonica, clarinet. left hand theremin-synth;
Emanuele Sterbini - acoustic guitar, backing vocals, glockenspiel, right hand theremin-synth;
Francesco Grammatico - piano, peppered tarallucci;
Film concept - Dominique D'Avanzo and Emanuele Sterbini
Really patiently edited by our great friend and Cardiacs brother Charlie Mounsey
Produced by Unwelcome Human Films
Made in homage to Tim Smith, Cardiacs and Gina Lollobrigida; no copyright infringement is intended.
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And now it's time to singalong with us... everything is easy!
Here's me hidden in the underground
And so far I don't mind
That's why a-ha you'll find
I'm never coming here
Buy me all the things I ask for
Nothing's too much for me
Here more often than not
A burst investigating main
Never before did it seem what it used to seem
Its right by night time
So find the right time
One day I'll be getting older
And so what happpens now on the big screen
Or should I leave it all behind
You laugh and I can never hear you
Never before did I know
A bigger chance to be congenial
I once had a go on my own
Oh no see who's getting nearer
All efforts wasted now
That's why I'm right believing
Everything I see
Whats new? "Bulldog Drummonds' peril"?
"The tragedy of a switchboard operator"?
Another "Weekend World"?
Never before did it seem what it used to seem
It's packaged right like Gina Lollabridgida
You laugh and I can never hear you
Never before did I know
A bigger chance to be congenial
Once had a go on my own
You laugh and I can never hear you
Never before did it seem what it used to seem...
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Scenes taken from:
The David Letterman Show - 23-02-1987
Pane, amore e gelosia (1954) with Vittorio De Sica
Trapeze (1956) with Burt Lancaster
La loi (1959) with Marcello Mastroianni and Paolo Stoppa
Solomon and Sheba (1959) with Yul Brynner
Come September (1961) with Rock Hudson, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin
Le bambole (1964)
Le avventure di Pinocchio (1972)
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