Fred Hammond ( stage name of Ferdinand Buscaglione; Turin, November 23 1921 - Rome, February 3 1960) was a singer and actor Italian .
reached the pinnacle of his career in the late fifties, playing in movies and songs the character of the hard American gangster style thirties with a weakness for whiskey and women.
Considered one of the principal authors of music and musicians sw
ing and jazz postwar Italy, died in a car accident.
reached the pinnacle of his career in the late fifties, playing in movies and songs the character of the hard American gangster style thirties with a weakness for whiskey and women.
Considered one of the principal authors of music and musicians sw
ing and jazz postwar Italy, died in a car accident. as a child he showed a great passion for music ; eleven years was admitted to the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi Turin but left after three years of attending a little 'sympathy for the poor than the classical music and a little 'why not prosperous economic conditions of his family forced him to look for work first in small loans by messenger and then as an apprentice dental technician.
was still a teenager when he began performing in nightclubs in the city as a jazz singer: as a multi-instrumentalist was also able to play different instruments, the bass to violin, the piano , the trumpet .
During the Second World War was interned by the Americans in Sardinia . Some military was aware of his musical talent and let him in ' orchestra of radio ally Cagliari . This allowed him to continue making music and experimenting with new sounds and new rhythms that came from the United States .
Buscaglione After the war he returned to Turin and began to play, first to other orchestras, then founded his own group, the Asternovas . In 1949 to Lugano met an artist in a circus cabaret Maghreb: Fatima Robin's , who later became his wife in 1953 and sing with her husband a few times.
Chiosso Leo because he insisted so incidesse songs written, and so in 1955 finally decided to make his debut with the label Cetra . The first single is a recorded 78's that contains two songs: What a doll / Jack . The idea to the public liked it and the single headliner almost 1,000,000 copies, with no hype, and so encouraged by this unexpected success Buscaglione decided to record many other songs.
Your character was inspired by Clark Gable and American gangster. The songs written with his friend lyricist Chiosso Leo spoke with irony of Guys and Dolls, the New York and Chicago , hard of ruthless enemies, but always at the mercy of women and alcohol. In 1956 recorded many songs and in that year leaving his first 33 laps .
This led to the songs that made him known throughout Italy , many of which performed live in concert and recorded to disk as a couple with his wife Fatima: What a doll, Theresa did not shoot, You were so small, Love in Portofino, Porfirio Villarosa, easy Whisky . His discography, despite the brevity of his career are numerous.
While composing, sometimes Buscaglione chose to record songs written by other musicians: this is the case of View the moon or the moonlight port fortune (song written by Carlo Alberto Rossi ).
was still a teenager when he began performing in nightclubs in the city as a jazz singer: as a multi-instrumentalist was also able to play different instruments, the bass to violin, the piano , the trumpet .
During the Second World War was interned by the Americans in Sardinia . Some military was aware of his musical talent and let him in ' orchestra of radio ally Cagliari . This allowed him to continue making music and experimenting with new sounds and new rhythms that came from the United States .
Buscaglione After the war he returned to Turin and began to play, first to other orchestras, then founded his own group, the Asternovas . In 1949 to Lugano met an artist in a circus cabaret Maghreb: Fatima Robin's , who later became his wife in 1953 and sing with her husband a few times.
Chiosso Leo because he insisted so incidesse songs written, and so in 1955 finally decided to make his debut with the label Cetra . The first single is a recorded 78's that contains two songs: What a doll / Jack . The idea to the public liked it and the single headliner almost 1,000,000 copies, with no hype, and so encouraged by this unexpected success Buscaglione decided to record many other songs.
Your character was inspired by Clark Gable and American gangster. The songs written with his friend lyricist Chiosso Leo spoke with irony of Guys and Dolls, the New York and Chicago , hard of ruthless enemies, but always at the mercy of women and alcohol. In 1956 recorded many songs and in that year leaving his first 33 laps .
This led to the songs that made him known throughout Italy , many of which performed live in concert and recorded to disk as a couple with his wife Fatima: What a doll, Theresa did not shoot, You were so small, Love in Portofino, Porfirio Villarosa, easy Whisky . His discography, despite the brevity of his career are numerous.
While composing, sometimes Buscaglione chose to record songs written by other musicians: this is the case of View the moon or the moonlight port fortune (song written by Carlo Alberto Rossi ).
the late '50s, Buscaglione was one of the most popular entertainers, and not only as a singer. Buscaglione appeared in advertisements, on television and in films, almost always embody the figure of the swashbuckling fun. It seems that in 1959, after divorcing his wife Fatima, had known Anita Ekberg and that he had fallen in love with her, the Swedish actress later said "it was nice, but nothing more. "
Buscaglione died suddenly on February 3 1960 to 38 years, in a car accident, crashing into a truck Lancia Esatau load of tufa, with his Ford Thunderbird lilac color at dawn in the Roman quarter Parioli . Recently, an accurate drug test found that Fred was not drunk that night, as many thought, but completely sober.
