Quartetto Cetra, or simply I Cetra, was an Italian vocal quartet established during 1940s. // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ...

The group originated from the previous Quartetto Ritmo following the replacement of one singer. Felice Chiusano filled the vacancy left by Enrico Gentile and joined Tata Giacobetti, Virgilio Savona and Enrico De Angelis in the quartet's line-up. Quartetto Cetra debuted in a radio review titled Riepilogando in 1941. Quartetto Ritmo was a jazz vocal male quartet working in Italy during 1940s. ... Felice Chiusano (Fondi, 28 March 1922 - Milan, 3 February 1990) was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a very famous Italian vocal quartet. ... Enrico Gentile was an Italian singer of 1940s. ... Giovanni Tata Giacobetti (Rome, 24 June 1922 - Rome, 2 December 1988) was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a very famous Italian vocal quartet. ... Antonio Virgilio Savona (Palermo, Italy, 1 January 1920) was one of the members of the Italian vocal group Quartetto Cetra. ... Enrico De Angelis was an Italian singer of 1940s. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ...

In October 1947 Enrico De Angelis left the group to join the Army. He was replaced by the singer Lucia Mannucci, the wife of Virgilio Savona. That was Cetra's final formation, which lasted for the rest of their four-decade career. The first song they performed together was Dove siete stata nella notte del 3 giugno? ("Where were you on the night of 3 June?"). Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Army (from French armée) can, in some countries, refer to any armed force. ... Lucia Mannucci (Bologna, 18 May 1920) was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a very famous Italian vocal quartet. ...

In 1948 Quartetto Cetra did the dubbing of the choruses for the Italian release of Disney's movie Dumbo. For their excellent job they received a congratulation note signed by Walt Disney himself. Afterwards they did the dubbing for other movies such as Make My Music, Melody Time and The Wizard Of Oz. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... Dumbo is the fourth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ... For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... Melody Time (first released on May 27, 1948) is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures. ... For the novel, see The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; For other senses of this title, see The Wizard of Oz. ...

Quartetto Cetra made their stage debut in Garinei & Giovannini's Gran Baldoria review. Several other musical commedies followed. On stage the Cetras worked with other Italian celebrities of those times, such Wanda Osiris and Alberto Sordi. Interior of the 1928 B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. ... This is a list of Italians or Italian-speaking/writing people that are famous. ... Alberto Sordi (1920-2003), year: ?. Alberto Sordi a. ...

Italian television was born in 1954. In the same year Quartetto Cetra made their first home television appearance in a show called In quattro si viaggia meglio ("You travel better when you're four"), although they had appeared on British television as far back as 1948 in Café Continental. In time they did a great number of other TV programs. Among them, their parodies of some literature classics such as The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers were a huge success. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... British television broadcasting has a range of different broadcasters, broadcasting multiple channels over a variety of distribution media. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Café Continental was a British television variety show, transmitted on the BBC Television Service from 1947 to 1953. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction... The Count of Monte Cristo (Le comte de Monte Cristo) is a classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... DArtagnan and the Musketeers The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ...

The quartet's early style was very much similar to Mills Brothers's, with jazz and swing vocal arrangements. The group then found its own way with a combination of songs and entertainment: earcatching tunes with funny lyrics yet with sophisticated arrangements, performed in comedy acts. The audience loved that, and Quartetto Cetra soon became very popular on the radio first, then on stage and on the TV as well. The Mills Brothers were a major African-American jazz and pop vocal group of the 20th century producing more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the early 1920s in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... The term Swing has several meanings: Swing (dance), a kind of dance, including West Coast Swing and East Coast Swing. ...

Quartetto Cetra was widely credited with the great virtue of combining excellent professional skills with popular entertainment.

In over forty years the group's repertoire included more than a thousand songs. Most were written by the duo Tata Giacobetti-Virgilio Savona, two members of the quartet. Just to name a few of them, Il Visconte di Castelfombrone, In un palco della Scala, Un disco dei Platters, Nella vecchia fattoria, Vecchia America, Che centrattacco, Un bacio a mezzanotte, I ricordi della sera.

Quartetto Cetra officially closed their performing career on 1 July 1988 in Bologna, with their last public concert. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bologna (pronounced , from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ...

External Links

• see them perfom in an ad for the Lambretta [1]