Amanti di valore

Amanti di valore 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 Frutta e verdura.

Overview
The album's songs are dedicated to love and sex. Mina, again going against the flow, relies on the lyrics of the promising author Franco Califano, who describes without taboos the relationship between two adulterers ("Amanti di valore") or the absurd erotic games that she learns to please her man, thereby losing the natural spontaneity and naivety associated with the act of love ("Inibizioni al vento").

"Carlo detto il mandrillo" differs in that Mina does not perform the lead vocal part, but sounds like part of the choir. This is a song about a man overwhelmed with excessive passion in search of a woman. The song was removed from foreign releases due to censorship.

Personnel

 * Mina – vocals
 * Pino Presti – arrangement, bass, Rhodes piano, percussion
 * Carlo Pes – arrangement, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, twelve-string guitar, mixing
 * Dario Baldan Bembo – organ, electric piano, piano, eminent
 * Renzo Bergonzi – percussion
 * Bruno De Filippi – harmonica
 * Tullio De Piscopo – drums, conga
 * Lino Liguori – drums
 * Arturo Prestipino Giarritta – violin
 * Andrea Sacchi – electric guitar, classical guitar, lap steel guitar
 * Nuccio Rinaldis – sound engineering
 * Mauro Balletti – photography
 * Luciano Tallarini – artwork, design

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.