Tino Rossi - Tino Rossi: Vieni, vieni - His 26 finest (1932 - 1948)

Tino Rossi (1907-1983) was the chanteur de charme par excellence, hailed as �the most famous Corsican since Napoleon�, and he is still numbered among the most popular French entertainers of all time. Vieni, vieni was both the title of his first big international success and of Retrospective�s survey of the 26 finest songs from his phenomenal ca reer. The romantic tenor began as a Corsican troubadour singing in French cabaret and on radio. But it was when his film career got under way that he became one of the country�s top idols. Marinella, Mia piccolina and Paris, voici Paris are among many hugely successful film songs, although all pale before the astonishing post-war triumph of Petit Papa No�l which became France�s Christmas national anthem. Rossi was also outstanding in opera (one critic favourably compared him to Gigli!), and his lyric tenor is a joy in arias from Le roi d�Ys, Manon and Les p�cheurs de perles. Few can melt the heart as readily as can Tino Rossi in Neapolitan songs such as Core �ngrato, or such quintessential French repertoire as J�attentrai � and there�s even one song in English: Roses Of Picardy.