Back in December, I posted about a now-forgotten 1960s Italian pop genre that centered on broken hearts and nostalgia. Back then in Italy, as TV sets were making their way into homes, the young-adult market's taste in music was romantic and dramatic. They preferred passionate ballads rather than the formal singing approach favored in the '50s or the go-…
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