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Fred Buscaglione, soft-hearted tough guy

Fred Buscaglione

Fred Buscaglione Source: Public domain

Fred Buscaglione, who died in 1960 at 38, was one of the greatest stars of the '50s, thanks to his actor's face, his rough voice, but above all his swinging funny songs influenced by a genre that Italians were beginning to discover only in those years: jazz. Songwriter Lorenzo Santangelo.



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