It was November 1960 when the first’s Dalida’s album, sang in italian was released. The Barclay label was founded by Eddie Barclay in 1954 and in Italy was distributed by SAAR through the Jolly Label. Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was born in Egypt from Calabrian parents and knew by all the fans as Dalida, from the beginning she is already an international star and her records are successfully released all over the world.
In Italy, her records are already quite famous in that glimpse of 1960: the Jolly has distributed Dalida’s 45 rpm in his country since January 1959, the catalog will be increased also by numerous extended play with four songs and by a couple of LPs with reduced size diameter, inherited from the old, recently disappeared 78 rpm.
If initially the repertoire was recorded in French, mostly with the orchestra of Raymond Lefèvre, very soon Italian songs will be released such as “Ciao Ciao Bambina (Piove)”written by Domenico Modugno and “Come prima” launched by Tony Dallara. Other famous traditonal Italian songs, were following as “Love In Portofino”, “O Sole mio” next to “Non mi dire chi sei” written by the couple Bindi- Calabrese and the famous song “24.000 baci” already recorded and released by Adriano Celentano.
Today Jolly presents the original LP released in 1961.
