Raffaella Carrà 82

Raffaella Carrà 82 (in some countries released as Raffaella Carrà, Bailo Bailo and Canta en italiano) is a thirteenth studio album by Italian singer Raffaella Carrà, released in 1981 by Hispavox, her fourth to be released also in United States.

Released following the great success of the Saturday night show "Fantastico 3", contains songs promoted during the program, including the only single extracted for the Italian market, whose side a "Ballo ballo" is the initial theme song of the broadcast. The song soon became a huge hit in Italy, dragging the single to number three in the weekly charts in early 1983 and finishing in number nineteen of the best-selling singles of that year

Also the song "Che dolor" will be used two years later, in its Spanish version, as the second theme song of the first edition of the program "Pronto, Raffaella?".

Overview
The album was released in 1982 in Spain, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Peru and Guatemala, with the tracks translated into Spanish and the addition of a new version of "Tuca tuca", a previuos signature song of Raffaella, made to celebrate its tenth anniversary

In Argentina the title was changed to "Raffaella Carrà", the same in the United States the following year (1983), where however the additional track was omitted

In Portugal and Germany, however, the version with the tracks in Italian was distributed, also in Mexico with the title changed to "Canta en Italiano" to distinguish it from the one in Spanish for the same country. In Czechoslovakia the album has been distributed in 1984 with the songs in italian, with the title "Raffaella Carrà"

Credits

 * Raffaella Carrà – vocals
 * Danilo Vaona – arrangement and production
 * Paolo Ormi - arrangiament and production