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Auschwitz (song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Auschwitz'" is a song composed by Francesco Guccini , and performed by Equipe 84.[http://discografia.dds.it/scheda_titolo.php?idt=430 Discografia Nazionale della Canzone Italiana] Although the song was written by GucciniFrancesco Guccini, 'Un altro giorno andato: Francesco Guccini si racconta a Massimo Cotto', Firenze, Giunti Editore, 1999, p. 59, . it was credited to Lunero and Maurizio Vandelli as the author was not a member of the SIAE.
The following year the song was recorded by Francesco Guccini and included in the LP 'Folk beat n. 1', with the title 'La canzone del bambino nel vento (Auschwitz)' (The song of the child in the wind).[http://discografia.dds.it/scheda_titolo.php?idt=571 Discografia Nazionale della Canzone Italiana]
Inspiration and content
Guccini had the inspiration to address the holocaust theme following the reading of the essay by Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool 'The Scourge of the swastika: A Short History of Nazi War Crimes' (Also translated into Italian in 1955)Lord Russell, 'Il flagello della svastica', Feltrinelli, Milano, 1955 and from the autobiographical novel by Vincenzo Pappalettera ' Tu passerai per il camino'Vincenzo Pappalettera, 'Tu passerai per il cammino- Vita e morte a Mauthausen', Milan, 1965 ('You Are Going Through the Chimney Life and death at Mauthausen ') where he had recounted his memoirs about his stay in the Mauthausen concentration camp.In 1966, for his novel, Pappalettera had been awarded with the Premio Bancarella
The text is narrated by two voices: the protagonist, a child who in the Auschwitz concentration camp "'died with another hundred, passed through a chimney and is now in the wind'". The second item is that of the author who poses some rhetoric questions to which there is no answer.
Track listing
*'7" single SRL 10-438 '
# "Bang bang" an Italian cover of "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" (Sonny Bono Alessandro Colombini and Miki Del Prete) 2:25
# "Auschwitz" (F. Guccini) 3:47
Covers
* 1992, i Nomadi, nell'album 'Ma che film la vita'
* 1994, Rod MacDonald English version with the title 'Auschwitz (Bambino nel Vento)' in the album 'Man on the Ledge'
* 1997: Gian Pieretti (album 'Caro Bob Dylan...')
* 2003, Alice, in the album 'Viaggio in Italia'
* 2005, Modena City Ramblers nell'album 'Appunti partigiani'
* 2013, 7grani, nell'album 'Neve diventeremo'
; Other interpreters
*Tazenda
References
Category:1966 singles
Category:Italian songs
Category:1966 songs
Category:Songs about the Holocaust
Category:Anti-war songs
Category:Francesco Guccini songs
Category:Ricordi Dischi singles
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