Frutta e verdura

Frutta e verdura is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1973 by PDU and originally distributed by EMI Italiana as a double album along with Amanti di valore. This pair of albums spent eight consecutive weeks at the first place of the Italian chart.
The cover of this album is the first one created by Mauro Balletti.

Personnel

Mina – vocals
Pino Presti – arrangement, bass, piano, Rhodes piano
Dario Baldan Bembo – arrangement
Natale Massara – arrangement
Nuccio Rinaldis – sound engineering
Mario Carulli – recording
Massimo Verardi – acoustic guitar, mandolin
Dino Comolli's "I musicals" – backing vocals
– conga
Tullio De Piscopo – drums
Andrea Sacchi – electric and acoustic guitar
– electric guitar
– flute
– piano, Hammond organ
Oscar Valdambrini – trumpet
Al Korvin – trumpet
Fermo Lini – trumpet
Giuliano Bernicchi – trumpet
– violin
– violin
Dino Comolli – whistling
Mauro Balletti – photography
Luciano Tallarini – artwork, design

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart	Peak position
Italian Albums	2

Cover versions

Some of the songs of this album have been recorded in different languages by Mina during the 1970s. "Non tornare più" was covered and released in French in a 1974 as a single. "Devo tornare a casa mia" was covered in 1975 in Spanish, "Debo volver ya con los mios", as well as "Questo sì, questo no". "Domenica sera" has three different versions: in Spanish, in German and in English. "E poi..." was recorded in other four languages: English, Spanish, french and German. There is also versions of the song in 1992 album Sorelle Lumière, in which the song was mixed with Riccardo Cocciante's "Un nuovo amico".