Volume 1 (Fabrizio De André album)

Infobox Album
Name = Volume 1
Type = Studio album
Artist = Fabrizio De André


Recorded = July 18/July 25 1964
Released = 1967
Genre = Folk
Length = 30:29
Label = Bluebell Records Produttori Associati Ricordi BMG
Producer = Gian Piero Reverberi A. Malcotti
Reviews =
Last album = "Tutto Fabrizio De André" (1966)
This album = "Volume 1" (1967)
Next album = "Tutti morimmo a stento" (1968)

"Volume 1" is the second album released by Fabrizio De André, although his first true studio album.

It was issued in 1967 on Bluebell Records, in two different versions, the first with a brown cover, and the second with a photografich cover with Fabrizio's face.

It was reissued in 1970 by Produttori Associati with a little different track listing, by Ricordi in 1978 and, finally, by BMG in 1994, both times with the same tracklist of Produttori Associati.

Track listing

All songs written by Fabrizio De André, except where indicated.

#"Preghiera in Gennaio" (3:28)
#"Marcia Nuziale" (De André, Georges Brassens) (3:10)
#"Spiritual" (2:34)
#"Si Chiamava Gesù" (3:09)
#"La Canzone di Barbara" (2:17)
#"Via del Campo" (De André, Enzo Jannacci) (2:31)
#"Caro Amore" (De André, Joaquín Rodrigo) (3:57)
# "Bocca di Rosa" (3:05)
#"La Morte" (De André, Georges Brassens) (2:22)
#"Carlo Martello Ritorna dalla Battaglia di Poitiers" (De André, Paolo Villaggio) (5:21)

The Songs

*"Preghiera in Gennaio" is dedicated to singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco, who committed suicide in 1967.
*"Marcia nuziale" is a translated version of the song "La Marche nuptiale", written in 1956 by Georges Brassens.
*"Via del Campo" features the music of a Enzo Jannacci song, "La mia morosa la và alla fonte", which De André mistakenly believed to be a medieval ballad.
*"Bocca di Rosa" is based on Brassens' song "Brave Margot", which he wrote in 1952.
*"Carlo Martello ritorna dalla battaglia di Poitiers", co-written with actor Paolo Villaggio, is based on the figure of Charles Martel, and tells an episode of his return to France after the Battle of Poitiers.
*On the 1970 edition, "Caro Amore" was replaced by "La stagione del tuo amore" (2:58).