Saturday, July 4, 2020

Who Are Those Coposers? ~ Roberto Pregadio



Roberto Pregadio was born in Aci Sant’ Antonio, Catania, Sicily, Italy on December 6, 1928. He graduated in piano at the Conservatory of Naples, in 1960 and became a pianist in the RAI Light Music Orchestra. From the second half of the sixties, for about fifteen years, he composed and directed about fifty musical scores.

As composer he was probably best known for the whistled musical score for the 1969 spaghetti western The Forgotten Pistolero, that he composed with Franco Micalizzi and that was later used in several episodes of The Ren & Stimpy Show.

In Italy he was also well known as the composing partner of Corrado Mantoni, from 1968 to 1997, and later of Gerry Scotti until 2007, in the radio and TV show La corrida.

Roberto Pregadio died in Rome, Italy on November 15, 2010.


PREGADIO, Roberto (aka Bob Deramont, H. Pregadio) [12/6/1928, Aci Sant’Antonio, Catania, Sicily, Italy - 11/15/2010, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – composer, conductor, songwriter.
Django the Last Killer – 1967
A Hole in the Forehead* – 1968
Ciccio Forgives I Don’t* – 1968
     Song: “Franco Forgives…I Don’t” sung by Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia
Twice a Judas – 1969
The Forgotten Pistolero* – 1969 (co)
Paths of War - 1969
The 4 Gunmen of the Holy Trinity* – 1970
     Song: “Julie” sung by Peter Boom
     Song: “It Was a Joke” sung by Valeria Fabrizi
Mallory Must Not Die - 1971
Three Supermen of the West -1974
     Song: “Supermen, Supermen” sung by Bob Deramont (Roberto Pregadio)

*Available on CD

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