After the great success of a week in which he was the leader of Saturday nights (share of 24.4% in 3,894,000 viewers), “The Best Years of Summer” is the final season episode for the variety show hosted by Carlo Conti under the Directed by back Prime Time Rai Entertainment in association with Endemol Shine Italy. The appointment is for Saturday May 27 on Rai1 from 9:25 p.m.
From a musical point of view, the great classics and summery buzzwords that accompanied the Italian holidays can also be heard on this evening. In short, space for two and a half hours of great live entertainment, where you have the opportunity to get carried away by the sounds of evergreen songs that have kept more and more generations dancing and falling in love. But the entire episode will be a journey into the past, also reminiscent of the facts, fashions and objects that have accompanied Italy over the past fifty years… and even beyond.
This week’s special guest is Mogol, author of the lyrics of many of the most beautiful Italian songs and numerous musical successes, together with Lucio Battisti, who will comment on the songs of his personal and exclusive “hit parade”.
But it will be an episode that will also feature two “big shots” of Italian music: Patty Pravo with her “summer hits” like “La Doll” and “Pensiero stupendo” for example, and Pupo with her “My List.” ‘, in which he sings his hits and talks about the moments in his life through his favorite songs.
Protagonist of the “Juke Box”, a popular singer from the seventies to today: Donatella Rettore. It will be an opportunity to hear legendary songs like “Kobra” and “Splendido splendente”, but not only.
During the evening there will be a trip down memory lane with some hits that are still popular with young people today. Representing the ’60s and ’70s, here is Santa Esmeralda’s former voice, Leroy Gomez, on the cover of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”; dancing with the Gibson Brothers with their “Cuba”; space for the poems of Dik Dik with “Without Light”, “Sognando la California” and “The Isle of Wight”; Michele Pecora will sing the emotions in “Era lei” while The Ritchie Family will bring their American rhythm with “The best disco in town” and “American generation”. Finally, Gianmarco Carroccia will interpret some hits in the space dedicated to Lucio Battisti.
The 80’s will also feature popular names such as Johnson Righeira, who will perform two summer anthems: ‘Vamos a la playa’ and ‘Summer isending’. The twins will arrive directly from Germany with “Face to face” and “Heart to heart”. Also featured here is Matia Bazar with the timeless ‘I Hear You’, while English rock breaks through with Katrina and the unforgettable ‘Walking on Sunshine’. Samantha Fox will also be a major protagonist with “Touch me (I want your body)”.
A jump in 1999 then with Miranda and his slogan “Vamos a la playa” while in the 2000s Las Ketchup will sing “Aserejé”.
Big protagonists will then be the rankings of the “Songs of the Summer”, which are created on the basis of the approval of the viewers. Flora Canto will act as an intermediary between the “social” world and the program, reading and commenting on the various messages from the audience from home.
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“Time Commentators” will be Dado, Gigi and Ross. The musical performances are accompanied by the live orchestra conducted by Maestro Pinuccio Pirazzoli and the choreography of the CHOIR by Fabrizio Mainini, with costumes by Simonetta Innocenti recreating the atmospheres of the different decades.
“The Best Years” is an original Italian format by Endemol Shine Italy, which has been successfully exported abroad and broadcast in Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Spain and the Middle East.