Caterpillar (Mina album)

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Caterpillar (Mina album) - Wikipedia

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Caterpillar

Studio album by

Mina

Released

18 October 1991

Recorded

1991

Studio

Studi PDU, Lugano

Genre

Length

82:25

Language

Label

PDU

Mina chronology

Ti conosco mascherina
(1990)

Caterpillar
(1991)

Sorelle Lumière
(1992)

Caterpillar is a double studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 18 October 1991 and distributed by EMI Italiana.^[3]^[4]

Overview

The album, as usual, features a part with cover versions of famous world and Italian hits, originally released between 1927 (Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust") and 1979 (Gianna Nannini's "California"), as well as a part with new original material.

The song "Il genio del bene" was used by Rete 4 as the theme song of the telenovela Vendetta di una donna starring Luisa Kuliok.^[5]

The album debuted at number fifteen on the Italian albums chart and peaked at number four in its fourth week, and stayed on the chart for a total of fifteen weeks.^[6] In the European albums chart, it became the fifty-second.^[7]

A remastered version of the album was released in 2001.^[8]

Track listing

Volume 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Stardust"	Hoagy Carmichael Mitchell Parish	3:54
2.	"La casa del serpente"	Ivano Fossati	6:10
3.	"Canto (Anche se sono stonato)"	Leo Chiosso Lelio Luttazzi	3:13
4.	"I'm a Fool To Care"	Ted Daffan	3:03
5.	"Love Me, Please Love Me"	Michel Polnareff Frank Gerald	3:55
6.	"Doodlin'"	Horace Silver	4:36
7.	"California"	Gianna Nannini	5:29
8.	"Lo shampoo"	Giorgio Gaber	3:39
9.	"Love Me Tender"	Elvis Presley Vera Matson	4:03
10.	"Legata ad uno scoglio"	Chiosso Luttazzi	2:25
Total length:			40:29

Volume 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Il corvo"	Marco Luberti	3:44
2.	"Acquolina"	Samuele Cerri Roberto Costa	5:00
3.	"Lunarità"	Cerri Fabio Sinigaglia	5:05
4.	"Flamenco"	Massimiliano Pani Giorgio Calabrese Massimo Bozzi	4:24
5.	"Traditore"	Giorgio Faletti	4:33
6.	"Fermi"	Cerri Mauro Paoluzzi	4:49
7.	"Il genio del bene"	Maurizio Morante	4:07
8.	"L'indifferenza"	Silvestro Longo Carlo Ambrosio	4:55
9.	"Amanti"	Gino De Nicola Nicola Di Battista	5:15
Total length:			41:56

Personnel

Mina – vocals

Danilo Rea – accordion, Hammond organ, piano
Massimo Moriconi – acoustic bass
Angel "Pato" Garcia – acoustic guitar
Mario Robbiani – arrangement
Massimiliano Pani – arrangement, backing vocals, keyboards
Lele Cerri – backing vocals
Margherita Ragnetti – backing vocals
Massimo Bozzi – backing vocals, guitar, keyboards
Moreno Ferrara – backing vocals
Simonetta Robbiani – backing vocals
Massimo Morriconi – bass
Alfredo Golino – drums
Ellade Bandini – drums
Roberto Gatto – drums
Franco Ambrosetti – flugelhorn
Danilo Minotti – guitar
Gigi Cifarelli – guitar
Paolo Gianolio – guitar
Sandro Gibellini – guitar
Aldo Banfi – synclavier
Candelo Cabezas – percussion
Giancarlo Porro – saxophone
Giovanni Troversi – saxophone
Leonardo Prete – saxophone
Maurizio Giammarco – saxophone
Paolo Panigada – saxophone
Sergio Rigon – saxophone
Wally Allifranchini – saxophone
Marco Tempesta – trombone
Mauro Parodi – trombone
Rudy Migliardi – trombone
Emilio Soana – trumpet
Fernando Brusco – trumpet
Umberto Moretti – trumpet

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[9]

Charts

Chart performance for *Caterpillar*
Chart (1991)	Peak position
European Albums (Music & Media)^[7]	52
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)^[6]	4

References

^ Mina – Caterpillar at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^ "Mina e il jazz". Jazz Convention (in Italian). 17 December 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^ Romano, Nino (1996). Mina: Mito e mistero (in Italian). Sperling & Kupfer. ISBN 9788820022983.
^ Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Grafe.it. ISBN 9788893720885.
^ Gentili, Gherardo (3 November 1991). "L'ingombrante Mina". TV Sorrisi e Canzoni. p. 102.
^ ^a ^b Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN 978-1094705002.
^ ^a ^b "European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 8, no. 47. 23 November 1991. p. 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2021.
^ "Rimasterizzati 59 album di Mina". Rockol (in Italian). 17 October 2001. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^ Mina (1991). Caterpillar (booklet). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 7077.

External links

Caterpillar at Discogs (list of releases)

Mina

Studio albums

1960s	Tintarella di luna (1960) Il cielo in una stanza (1960) Due note (1961) Moliendo café (1962) Renato (1962) Stessa spiaggia, stesso mare (1963) Mina (1964) Studio Uno (1965) Studio Uno 66 (1966) Mina 2 (1966) Sabato sera – Studio Uno '67 (1967) Dedicato a mio padre (1967) Le più belle canzoni italiane interpretate da Mina (1968) Canzonissima '68 (1968) I discorsi (1969) Mina for You (1969) ...bugiardo più che mai... più incosciente che mai... (1969)
1970s	Mina canta o Brasil (1970) ...quando tu mi spiavi in cima a un batticuore... (1970) Mina (1971) Cinquemilaquarantatre (1972) Altro (1972) Frutta e verdura (1973) Amanti di valore (1973) Mina® (1974) Baby Gate (1974) Minacantalucio (1975) La Mina (1975) Singolare (1976) Plurale (1976) Mina con bignè (1977) Mina quasi Jannacci (1977) Attila (1979)
1980s	Kýrie (1980) Salomè (1981) Italiana (1982) Mina 25 (1983) Catene (1984) Finalmente ho conosciuto il conte Dracula... (1985) Sì, buana (1986) Rane supreme (1987) Ridi pagliaccio (1988) Uiallalla (1989)
1990s	Ti conosco mascherina (1990) Caterpillar (1991) Sorelle Lumière (1992) Mina canta i Beatles (1993) Lochness (1993) Canarino mannaro (1994) Pappa di latte (1995) Cremona (1996) Napoli (1996) Leggera (1997) Mina Celentano (1998) Nostalgias (1998) Olio (1999) Mina n° 0 (1999)
2000s	Dalla terra (2000) Sconcerto (2001) Veleno (2002) Napoli secondo estratto (2003) Bula Bula (2005) L'allieva (2005) Bau (2006) Todavía (2007) Sulla tua bocca lo dirò (2009) Facile (2009)
2010s	Caramella (2010) Piccolino (2011) 12 (American Song Book) (2012) Christmas Song Book (2013) Selfie (2014) Le migliori (2016) Maeba (2018) Mina Fossati (2019)
2020s	Ti amo come un pazzo (2023) Gassa d'amante (2024)