Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bruno Quirinetta is an Italian Bing Crosby, Phil Harris and Spike Jones all rolled into one. Recording with his seven-piece Orchestra Quirinetta, he is one of Italy's biggest-selling popular artists. Wherever he plays at fashionable clubs in Rome, Milan, Florence or Rapallo, Italians surrender in droves to his particular brand of gaiety-an infectious mixture of nonsense and nostalgia...
...Bruno was not releasing any figures on his income last week-he did not care to let the tax collectors in on anything so personal-but he was as close to a rage as any pop musician can get in a land of opera lovers...
Gurgling Florentine. A chunky, irrepressible man with a hair-in-the-eyes resemblance to the movies' late Lew ("Monkeys is the cwaziest people") Lehr, Bruno, 39, started out as a singing gondolier in his native Venice. After four years of that, and a few handsome and encouraging tips, he decided he could do as well or better just singing and entertaining without straining his back in the bargain. During the war he had to give up his orchestra ("Italians were too depressed to enjoy cheerful dance music"), eked out a living by trading on the black market. But since...
...wooden baton-waver (in fact, he usually leads from the drums), Bruno gets deep into the act, taking his place in the conga line, occasionally even cutting in on couples dancing past. Gurgled one fat Florentine matron after a round with the master in the Posso di Beatrice, a cellar nightclub in a 13th Century palace: "This Bruno makes me feel like a five-year...
Pollock followed his canvases to Italy, exhibited them in private galleries in Venice and Milan. Italian critics tended to shrug off his shows. Only one, brash young (23) Critic Bruno Alfieri of Venice, took the bull by the horns...