Tony Dallara, ’the shouter’ that elettrizzò Italy: I Was the star of the show but in Sanremo refused a piece that Toto wrote to me

Cartoon of 1959 on the Domenica del Corriere (a million copies sold, at the time). A redskin he puts his ear to the ground, as if to feel if they get horses. And cries: “Porc… still Tony Dallara !?”. There is no better explanation of what has been, for the Italy of the time, the singer of milan, who in the 1960s – 60 years ago – was filled with screams and at a pace as slow as the Romantic Renato Rascel . And contributed to the triumph at the Sanremo festival of song, which makes it the oldest winner of the festival still life ( Johnny Dorelli , who won in 1958 and 1959, 1937, while Dallara is, 1936): “And I confess that at a Festival where we celebrate the history, I would have expected some recognition. But I say without arguing, I’ve never done it, I’m not the type, at the cost of losing some occasion I do not sgomito ever,” says Antonio Lardera , become the Dallara because it was a surname more musical.