CAPPY BIANCO - The Cat 😺 / La Donna Riccia 🇮🇹 (1959) HD
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- 50s Rock And Roll Novelty / Italian Calypso Exotica - Both Sides - Casa Blanca Records - 5501/ ABC-Paramount 45-10,044 (1959) Producer : Frank Pingatore) Backing by : Bill Haley's Comets.
(1) Written By : Bill Haley, Rusty Keefer, Catherine Cafra.
(2) Written and Sang also by : Domenico Modugno, who represented Italy in the 1958 "Eurovision Song Contest" with this song, where it came in third, he also wrote the song "Io" covered in English by Elvis Presley under the title: "Ask Me".
Joe Olivier with Bill Haley And His Comets (Live 1958) • JOE OLIVIER (aka Cappy...
Joseph Olivier (usually billed as Joe Olivier) December 10, 1927-December 25, 2001, Dutch-born from Maastricht, Netherlands, was a Singer and guitarist who Joined The Comets in late 1957 to play second guitar on several Decca recording sessions, the single "Mary Mary Lou" and several tracks from the L.P. "Rockin' Around the World".
In 1958, the multilingual Olivier toured with Haley across Europe and South America, where he doubled as an interpreter.
He also appears in the film "Hier Bin Ich, Hier Bleib Ich" filmed during a break to the 1958 German tour, and photographs exist of Olivier performing on television, backed by Haley and the Comets.
In 1959, members of the Comets backed Joe Olivier on the single "The Cat" / "La Donna Riccia", which was released under the name Cappy Bianco.
He also worked with bandleader Xavier Cugat.
In later years, he managed a Howard Johnson's restaurant, worked in catering for American Airlines, ran a dog kennel near Utica, N.Y. and bred champion German shepherds.
He died on Christmas Day, 2001, at his home in Marcy, is a town in Oneida County, New York, United States, after a battle with diabetes, he was 74 years.
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Great, I first knew this song by The Stargazers around the early 1980s
So good Teenage jiver. Thanks so much
Great!! Thank you!
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