Caterpillar (Mina album)

Caterpillar
Caterpillar
Studio album by Mina
Released	18 October 1991
Recorded	1991
Studio	Studi PDU, Lugano
Genre	Pop; rock; jazz;
Length	82:25
Language	Italian; English;
Label	PDU
Mina chronology

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

Overview[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

^ 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[edit]

Caterpillar at Discogs (list of releases)

[AllMusic-1] Mina – Caterpillar at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 June 2023.

[2] "Mina e il jazz". Jazz Convention (in Italian). 17 December 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2023.

[3] Romano, Nino (1996). Mina: Mito e mistero (in Italian). Sperling & Kupfer. ISBN 9788820022983.

[Aldo_Dalla_Vecchia-4] Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Grafe.it. ISBN 9788893720885.

[5] Gentili, Gherardo (3 November 1991). "L'ingombrante Mina". TV Sorrisi e Canzoni. p. 102.

[Musica_e_dischi-6] Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN 978-1094705002.

[Music_&_Media-7] "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.

[8] "Rimasterizzati 59 album di Mina". Rockol (in Italian). 17 October 2001. Retrieved 20 June 2023.

[notes-9] Mina (1991). Caterpillar (booklet). Italy: PDU. Pld. L. 7077.

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