Love in Portofino

Love in Portofino is a 1959 song recorded by French singer Dalida, with lyrics in Italian and French language although the name is in English. The song was her minor hit upon its release for Dalida, and was covered by several other singers, including Gloria Lasso under the name "A San Cristina", and in instrumental versions by accordionists and conductors. Being embraced by musical intellectuals as masterpiece of Dalida's early repertoire and pop standard of 1950s, it eventually became the symbolic song for Portofino, to which it is referring.

"Love in Portofino"
Cover art of the mainstream single for the song, issued in fall of 1959.
Single by Dalida
from the album Love in Portofino (A San Cristina)
B-side"La chanson d'Orpheé"
ReleasedJuly 1959 (1959-July)
RecordedJuly 1959
StudioHoche
Genre
Length3:15
LabelBarclay
Composer(s)Fred Buscaglione
Lyricist(s)Jacques Larue, Leo Chiosso
Dalida singles chronology
"Guitare et tambourin"
(1959)		 "Love in Portofino"
(1959)		 "Marina"
(1959)
Alternative cover
Cover of the song's first pressing on te EP in July 1959.

The song was first sung by its author Fred Buscaglione, to be covered, still in 1958 by Johnny Dorelli, the latter with greater success, being a more romantic version than the original. Both versions entered to the charts in 1959. More recently, the italian classic Love in Portofino was covered by Andrea Bocelli in 2013 and was featured on the eponymous album.[1]

Background

The song was written only in Italian by Chiosso, but when Barclay got the song for Dalida they added the French part written by Larue. It was recorded during Dalida's summer tour, in July 1959 in Hoche studio in Paris, under orchestra conduction of Raymond Lefèvre, and was published the same month as a B-side to "La chanson d'Orpheé" EP.[2][3]

Charts
Chart (1959) Peak position
France[4] 15
Wallonia[5] 20

See also

References
  1. "Andrea Bocelli Love in Portofino DVD - Official Website". www.andreabocelli.com. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
  2. "Album format". Dalida Official Website. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  3. "Personnel". Studio Hoche. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  4. "Classement des 20 plus grands succès du mois". Music Hall: 1. Autumn 1959.
  5. "Chart". ultratop.be.
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