78 RPM - Falco - Una Gara Musicale - Scena Militare A Tripoli / Sulla Nave Ospedale - Columbia - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Falco
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	E996
Date:	Sep 1912
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Falco	Una Gara Musicale - Scena Militare A Tripoli		Rate
B	Falco	Sulla Nave Ospedale		Rate

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Italian, descriptive scenes

A: Una Gara Musicale - Scena Militare A Tripoli = A Musical Contest - Military Scene In Tripoli.
B: Sulla Nave Ospedale = On the Hospital Ship.

A side (mx. 11421-2) recorded in Milan, Italy
B side (mx. 11422-1) recorded in Milan, Italy

1914-1917 repress on Magic Notes label (Columbia Graphophone Company) with 6 patent dates in 4 lines:
A side runout: 11421-2-24 (stamped in label area)
B side runout: 11422-1-28 (stamped in label area)

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xiphophilos 31st Jul 2020		Fixed the translation above! The real Caruso, by the way, did record "Fenesta Che Lucive", but in the following year, 1913:



fantasista 30th Jul 2020		@xiphophilos, it is interesting, I would have assumed that these sort of spoken word scenes had a limited shelf life, but based on the copies I've seen, many of them seem to have been repressed over several years, so they must have been reasonably popular. For instance, I found a copy of this record, a dramatic scene about the execution of Cesare Battisti in 1916, originally released in 1919, repressed on a label from 1925-26. Just a quick note, "gara" is often used to refer to a match or contest, so "A Musical Contest" would be a more accurate translation in this case. On the A-side, they have a singing competition between the Neapolitans, Piemontese and Lombardians. The Neapolitan song is Funiculì Funiculà, unfortunately I don't recognize the other two. On the B-side, a doctor on a hospital ship docked at Tripoli is talking to a duchess, who asks how the patients are. He tells her they're well enough to sing along with the accordion all day, so they must be doing quite well. The duchess asks if they might sing a song for her; the doctor agrees, and jokingly asks the boys which among them is the tenor Caruso. They point out one, who sings a Neapolitan song I don't recognize, "Fenesta che lucive" and another Neapolitan song I don't recognize. A-side and B-side audio from DAHR



xiphophilos 30th Jul 2020		Both scenes are set during the Italo-Turkish War (or Guerra di Libia = "Libyan War"), which took place between September 29, 1911 and October 18, 1912: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Turkish_War Interesting that Italian immigrants in the U.S. found their country's colonizing adventure in North Africa so inspiring that this record had to be repressed as late as 1914.