Credited on the record as Fabrizio De Andre.
Ring Around the H-Bomb
1969 · Ecco Productions 45-3 · Genoa, Italy
- Artist
- Fabrizio De André
- Credited on the record as
- Fabrizio De Andre
- Title
- Ring Around the H-Bomb
- Release
- Ring Around the H-Bomb / Winter (Inverno)
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Ecco Productions # 45-3
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Genoa, Italy
- Songwriter
- Fabrizio De André, Gian Piero Reverberi; English words P. Miller
- Genre
- Singer Songwriter · Singer Songwriter
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Notes
Ecco Productions 45-3 (Elki Music, ASCAP; manufactured by Haddon Record Corp., USA), 3:23, backed with "Winter (Inverno)": the English version of "Girotondo" from De André's third album Tutti morimmo a stento (Bluebell BB LP 32, November 1968, produced by Gian Piero Reverberi and Giorgio Agazzi, recorded at RCA Italiana, Rome), one of the first Italian concept albums, its songs drawn from Villon on drugs, lost innocence, capital punishment, love, war and mercy. "Girotondo" sets a darkly ironic text on the nonsense refrain Italian children sing in their ring-a-ring-o'-roses game: an approaching nuclear war wipes out mankind, and the children — sung with the choir I Piccoli Cantori — are left as the only survivors, playing at war and starting the round again. In 1969 the producer Antonio Casetta proposed an English edition of the album and De André re-recorded his vocals; it was never…
About the artist
Fabrizio De André (18 February 1940 - 11 January 1999) - singer-songwriter born in Genoa, Liguria, the leading cantautore of his generation.
Themes
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]