Renato Carosone - Bernardine (Carosello) Raf Montrasio on guitar

Renato Carosone - Carosello
"Bernardine" with the great Raf Montrasio on guitar.
Bernardine (Johnny Mercer) 1957.
Maybe the best known version is by Pat Boone

www.myspace.com/rafmontrasio

Raf Montrasio was born in 1929 and he's a guitar legend in Italy.
He plays also mandolin, violin, piano and doublebass!
He's one of the fathers of electric guitar in Italy.
In the Fifties he toured all around the world with Renato Carosone (a very popular singer and pianist, who wrote the famous "Tu vuo' fa l'Americano").
They played a mix of swing, rock'n'roll, Neapolitan traditional music, etc. They were one of the best band in Italy of last century!
And they were the first pop group that played into Carnegie Hall of New York, in 1958!
During the 50s they had concerts with Nat King Cole, Joao Gilberto, and many others; and they played at 'Perry Como' and 'Ed Sullivan Show' too.

Category:

Music

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• Renato
• Carosone
• Bernardine
• Pat
• Boone
• Raf
• Montrasio
• Guitar
• Carosello
• Italy

[pseudonimolibero]

Al sax tenore Gianni Tozzi (che suonava e suona tuttora alla grande anche il flauto e soprattutto l'ocarina).

[anitadavideduo]

@pseudonimolibero

Conosciamo Gianni Tozzi! E' un gran bel personaggio :-)

[campamante]

Il chitarrista è Peter Van Wood, con Renato, Gegè e compagni, ha eseguito eccellenti brani.

Bei tempi...

[anitadavideduo]

Il chitarrista è Raf Montrasio

[anitadavideduo]

Si, è proprio Alighiero Noschese :-)))

[whitefalcon64]

Yo tambien la conocia por Pat Boone (es de una pelicula del mismo titulo) y por los argentinos 5 Latinos, pero esta version de Carosone suena que se te cae la baba. Aunque hace muchisimo ese sonido que saca esa Gretsch años 40. Una joya.

[pseudonimolibero]

@anitadavideduo

Pure io lo conosco...!

[phantomvibrationsX]

I wish that Carosone should not have done some of the funny odd videos that they did--I think it was a mistake and silly....

[dimajocar]

Es más grande la guitarra que el

[JohnFloresGraphics]

GeGe' di Giacomo alla batteria....

[YEAGUICHA]

great smile!!!

hahahahahaha

[paoloceriani]

@anitadavideduo

Grande Raf!!

[Just1Cornetto]

Thank goodness they weren't playing up to the cameras or miming ;-)