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ARTIST
TITLE
L'Arbitro
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
CATALOG #
CDDM 230CD
CDDM 230CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/5/2018
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Digitmovies presents for the first time on CD Guido and Maurizio De Angelis's original soundtrack, in full stereo, for the movie L'Arbitro (aka "Football Crazy"). Directed in 1974 by Luigi Filippo D'Amico and starring Lando Buzzanca, Joan Collins, Gabriella Pallotta, Massimo Mollica, Marisa Solinas, Nello Pazzafini, Ignazio Leone, Dino Curcio, Daniele Vargas, Umberto D'Orsi, Gianfranco Barra, Giovanni Rosselli, and Alvaro Vitali. The Sicilian football referee Carmelo Lo Cascio (Buzzanca) lives with his wife and son in Acireale (a character inspired by Concetto Lo Bello), where he wants to achieve success and to become an international referee. But he must also satisfy the sexual appetites of his wife (Pallotta) and of Elena (Collins), a very demanding lover. To improve his professional performances, Lo Cascio begins to take amphetamines in a more and more massive way, to the point of going crazy: During an international football match (the final scene of the film) he refuses to whistle the end of the match and he is taken away by the police. At the time, RCA released a 45rpm single with the themes "Miss Elena" and "(I'm) Football Crazy" (played by Giorgio Chinaglia), but in the RCA archives, in addition to the stereo master tapes of the original recording session, Digitmovies have made a great discovery: an album mock-up with ten selections that never saw the light of day in 1974, and moreover they also found about 25 minutes of alternate material. The De Angelis brothers have written, arranged, and conducted a really nice OST that opens with the love theme "Miss Elena" in a pastoral version, which gets reprised in a pop version, then alternated with funny music in a Sicilian mood, lounge music as in a night club, an African rock fast, and a slow version and a bossa nova version. The song "(I'm) Football Crazy" is the main theme song of the OST: we get an instrumental take, a vocal take film version, a vocal take with different ending, a vocal take mixed for the 45rpm single, and the karaoke version.
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