Piange... il telefono (song)

"Piange... il telefono" is a song performed by Italian singer and songwriter Domenico Modugno with little. It was released as a single in 1975 on Carosello Records.
In the same year, an Italian film based on the song was shot and released to cinemas. The film also starred Domenico Modugno and Francesca Guadagno and was also titled Piange... il telefono.

Composition and writing

The song was based on Claude Francois's 1974 hit "Le téléphone pleure". As in the original, the song is built on a melodramatic story, in which a man calls his five-year-old daughter on the phone, but without her realizing that the heartbroken caller is actually her father - as he is the estranged husband of the child's mother, who left him before their daughter was born, six years earlier. At the end of the song, the man, faced with his wife's final rejection, is implied to be committing suicide.

Track listings

7" single Carosello CI 20390
'''7" single BASF 06 19 266-5'''