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Seven Hills of Rome (album)

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Seven Hills of Rome
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Soundtrack album by
Released1958
LabelRCA Victor
Mario Lanza chronology
Mario Lanza in "Serenade"
(1956)
Seven Hills of Rome
(1958)
For the First Time
(1959)

Seven Hills of Rome is a soundtrack album by tenor Mario Lanza containing songs featured in the 1958 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Seven Hills of Rome that he starred in. The album was released by RCA Victor in the same year.[1]

Release

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The album was released on the RCA Victor record label in 1958 – to coincide with the release of the film.[1]

The album was available on LP (cat. no. LM-2211).[1]

Reception

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The album peaked at number 7 on Billboard's Best-Selling Pop LPs chart for the week of 24 March 1958.[2][3]

Track listing

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LP (RCA Victor LM-2211)[1]

Side 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Seven Hills of Rome"Adamson–Young 
2."Italiano Calypso"Stoll 
3."Lolita"Buzzi-Peccia 
4."Questa o quella"Verdi 
5."Arrivederci Roma"Garinei–Giovannini–Sigman–Rascel 
6."Imitation sequence"
• "Temptation"
• "Jezebel"
• "Memories Are Made of This"
• When the Saints Go Marching In""

Brown
Shanklin
Gilkyson–Rich Dehr–Miller
Trad. (Arr. George Stoll)
 
7."Come Dance with Me"Blake–Leibert 
Side 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Note(s)Length
1."Never till Now"Webster–Greenfrom Raintree County 
2."Do You Wonder"Ray–Hill  
3."Earthbound"Taylor–Richardson–Musel  
4."Serenade"Cahn–Brodszkyfrom Serenade 
5."My Destiny"Cahn–Brodszkyfrom Serenade 
6."Love in a Home"Mercer–DePaulfrom Li'l Abner 

Charts

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Chart (1958) Peak
position
US Billboard Best Selling Pop LPs[4] 7

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mario Lanza – Seven Hills Of Rome – Vinyl (LP, Album, Mono), 1958". 1958 – via Discogs.
  2. 1 2 "Billboard". March 24, 1958.
  3. 1 2 "Billboard magazine's (USA) weekly album charts for 1958". hitsofalldecades.com Pop rock n roll Music Chart Hits.
  4. ↑ [2][3]