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Quartetto Cetra, or simply I Cetra, was an Italian vocal quartet established during 1940s.

The group originated from the previous Quartetto Ritmo following the replacement of one singer. Felice Chiusano filled the vacancy left by Enrico Gentile and joined Tata Giacobetti, Virgilio Savona and Enrico De Angelis in the quartet's line-up. Quartetto Cetra debuted in a radio review titled Riepilogando in 1941.

In October 1947 Enrico De Angelis left the group to join the Army. He was replaced by the singer Lucia Mannucci, the wife of Virgilio Savona. That was Cetra's final formation, which lasted for the rest of their four-decade career. The first song they performed together was Dove siete stata nella notte del 3 giugno? ("Where were you on the night of 3 June?").

In 1948 Quartetto Cetra did the dubbing of the choruses for the Italian release of Disney's movie DumboDumbo (first released on October 23, 1941) is an animated film, produced by Walt Disney. The main character is Jumbo Jr. an anthropomorphic elephant who is cruelly nicknamed Dumbo. He is ridiculed for his big ears, but it turns out that he is capable of f. For their excellent job they received a congratulation note signed by Walt DisneyFor the same named company; see The Walt Disney Company Walter Elias Disney ( December 5, 1901 December 15, 1966) was an American animated film producer and animator. He was also the creator of an American-based theme park called Disneyland, and the found himself. Afterwards they did the dubbing for other movies such as Make My Music , Melody Time , Wizard Of Oz .

Quartetto Cetra made their stageStage has several meanings: In rocketry, a stage is one of several independent rockets used to reduce the need for fuel. Referring to rivers, the stage is the height of the water on a gauge. Flood stage occurs when it begins to overflow the surrounding ar debut in Garinei & Giovannini 's Gran Baldoria review. Several other musical commedies followed. On stage the Cetras worked with other Italian celebritiesThis is a list of Italians or Italian-speaking/writing people that are famous. In alphabetical order. Scientists Severino Antinori, (b. 1945), gynecologist and embryologist Amedeo Avogadro, (1776-1856), physicist Giovanni Battista Beccaria, (1716-1781) Ru of those times, such Wanda Osiris and Alberto SordiAlberto Sordi ( June 15 1920 February 25 2003) was an Italian actor and director. He was the voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films. Sordi acted in more than 150 movies during his life; mainly in comedic roles where he us.

Italian televisionSee TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television p was born in 1954Events January events January 14 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation January 14 Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. January 15 Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya January 20 The Nati. In the same year Quartetto Cetra made their first TV appearance in a show called In quattro si viaggia meglio ("You travel better when you're four"). In time they did a great number of other TV programs. Among them, their parodies of some literature classics such as The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers were a huge success.

The quartet's early style was very much similar to Mills Brothers's, with jazz and swing vocal arrangements. The group then found its own way with a combination of songs and entertainment: earcatching tunes with funny lyrics yet with sophisticated arrangements, performed in comedy acts. The audience loved that, and Quartetto Cetra soon became very popular on the radio first, then on stage and on the TV as well.

Quartetto Cetra was widely credited with the great virtue of combining excellent professional skills with popular entertainment.

In over forty years the group's repertoire included more than a thousand songs. Most were written by the duo Tata Giacobetti-Virgilio Savona, two members of the quartet. Just to name a few of them, Il Visconte di Castelfombrone, In un palco della Scala, Un disco dei Platters, Nella vecchia fattoria, Vecchia America, Che centrattacco, Un bacio a mezzanotte, I ricordi della sera.

Quartetto Cetra officially closed their performing career on 1 July 1988 in Bologna, with their last public concert.

Italian musical groups



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