List of number-one hits of 1959 (Italy)
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This is a list of the number-one hits of 1958 and 1959 on Italian Hit Parade Singles Chart.
| Issue Date | Song | Artist |
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| December 20 | "Io" | Domenico Modugno Domenico Modugno Domenico Modugno was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu "... |
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| January 24 | "Julia" | Johnny Dorelli Johnny Dorelli Johnny Dorelli is an Italian actor, singer and showman.Born as Giorgio Guidi in Meda, he debuted as singer in the late 1950s for CGD label. In 1958 he won the Sanremo Festival in duo with Domenico Modugno, with the songs "Nel blu dipinto di blu" and "Piove "... |
| January 31 | ||
| February 7 | "Tom Dooley Tom Dooley (song) "Tom Dooley" is an old North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina. It is best known today because of a hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio. This version was a multi-format hit, reaching #1 in Billboard, the... " |
The Kingston Trio The Kingston Trio The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds... |
| February 14 | "Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina) Piove (Ciao, Ciao Bambina) "Piove " is an Italian song written by Domenico Modugno and Eduardo Verde. It won first prize at the 1959 Sanremo Music Festival, where it was performed twice, once by Modugno and once by Johnny Dorelli... " |
Domenico Modugno |
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| March 28 | "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Smoke Gets in Your Eyes "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for their 1933 operetta Roberta. It was originally recorded by Gertrude Niesen, on 13 October 1933 on the Victor label 24454. It was performed by Irene Dunne for the 1935 film adaptation,... " |
The Platters The Platters The Platters were a vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre... |
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| June 13 | "Venus Venus (Frankie Avalon song) "Venus" is the name of a song written by Ed Marshall and Peter DeAngelis. The most successful and well-known recording of it was done by Frankie Avalon and released in 1959 . It became Avalon's first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent five weeks atop the survey. The song... " |
Frankie Avalon Frankie Avalon Frankie Avalon is an American actor, singer, playwright, and former teen idol.-Career:By the time he was 12, Avalon was on U.S. television playing his trumpet. As a teenager he played with Bobby Rydell in Rocco and the Saints... |
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| July 11 | "Notte lunga notte" | Domenico Modugno |
| July 18 | "Venus" | Frankie Avalon |
| July 25 | "Arrivederci" | Don Marino Barreto Jr. |
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| September 19 | "Il tuo bacio e' come un rock" | Adriano Celentano Adriano Celentano Adriano Celentano is an Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, film director and TV host.-Biography:Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Gluck, about which he later wrote the famous song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck"... |
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| October 3 | "Forever" | Joe Damian |
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| November 28 | "Deguello" | Nelson Riddle Nelson Riddle Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s... |
| December 5 | "Arrivederci" | Don Marino Barreto Jr. |
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| December 19 | "The End" | Earl Grant Earl Grant Earl Grant was an American easy listening pianist, Hammond organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s.-Career:... |
| December 26 | "Arrivederci" | Don Marino Barreto Jr. |