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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