Genre
Italo-disco and pop. Divided structurally into two halves — an L.A. Side and a N.Y. Side — the album reflects the two production teams and cities involved in its creation. The L.A. Side draws on the polished, melodic West Coast AOR sound; the N.Y. Side is more disco-oriented, with lush string writing and a fuller orchestral palette.
Release
Released on June 1, 1979, by EMI Italiana in Italy and Decca Records internationally. The cover design was by Cesare Zucca; outfits were by Gianni Versace.
Production
The L.A. Side was produced, engineered, and arranged by Jay Graydon. The N.Y. Side was produced and arranged by Brad Baker and Lance Quinn, with executive production by Robert Drake. Mastered at Masterdisk, New York City.
Reception
The lead single "Tu sei l'unica donna per me" reached number one in Italy and Switzerland, number two in Austria and Belgium, and number thirteen in West Germany — becoming the best-selling Italian single of 1979. It won the Festivalbar that year and has since been covered in multiple languages. The album's success propelled Sorrenti to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 with "Non so che darei," with which he finished sixth but scored one of that year's highest post-contest sales in continental Europe and Scandinavia.
Alan Sorrenti
Alan Sorrenti (born December 9, 1950, Naples, Italy) is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Born to an Italian father and a Welsh mother, he spent much of his childhood in Aberystwyth, Wales, becoming fluent in both Italian and English — an asset that shaped his bilingual performing career. He launched his recording career in 1972 with the progressive rock album Aria on Harvest Records, praised for its avant-garde style and collaboration with violinist Jean-Luc Ponty; it was later ranked among the hundred greatest Italian albums of all time by Rolling Stone Italia. A second progressive album followed in 1973 before he pivoted toward commercial pop and disco with Figli delle Stelle (1977) - a Festivalbar winner - and L.A. & N.Y. (1979).
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