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Another very interesting Italian soundtrack-series is the "CAMPI-series". But what does "Campi" actually mean? To my best knowledge, Campi is a subsidiary company of C.A.M. and its name can be found on many C.A.M.-covers (eg. from the CDR. 33-series: GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI by Nino Rota) as being the company (as well as "Delta") responsible for the "cover design", in other words: "Campi" designed the cover artwork for many C.A.M.-releases (LPs as well as 45 rpm-releases). Further comparing the two names, one soon realizes the striking identity between both names, "Campi" being nothing else than "Cam" with the affix "pi" added! So what does "pi" mean? I guess, without any in-depth knowledge of the Italian language and therefore purely speculating, that "pi" might mean something like "small(er)". Maybe it simply means that Campi is the small "Cam", the offspring of "Cam", the daughter-company, the later born, just a synonym for the "little baby Cam"? (No, I did not enjoy the Austin Powers-movies, the four original MATT HELM-movies were much better and had much better music and also acting!). I would be very happy if anybody with a better knowledge of the Italian language could shed some light into this. Maybe some Italian reader of these lines would be so very kind to drop me an e-mail (addy at the end of this introduction; thank you) ...?!

From the release- or cover-print-dates shown on the covers of the Campi 100.000-series it can be concluded that this company was active, as far as vinyl-releases are concerned, in the second half of the sixties, issuing slightly more than a dozen LPs, of which not all are yet shown on this site. Most noteworty are the releases which feature scores by the leading composers of that period, noteably Piero Piccioni, Francesco DeMasi and Carlo Rustichelli, of whose compositions some received their first (and sometimes only) pressing as part of this series (however, "Il momento della verita", Campi CLP. 100.006, by Piero Piccioni, was leter re-issued as C.A.M. Mag 10.006 and "Signore & Signori", Campi CLP. 100.013 - triple fold-out, by Carlo Rusichelli, was re-issued actually the same year (!) as C.A.M. AMG 2!). Other noteworty items are by Benedetto Ghiglia ("La bugiarda") and the DeMasi-compositions featured on the tripe F/O-edition of "Alla scoperta dell´Africa" (the accompaning "Alla scoperta dell´India" was released on the Sermi-label and is not yet shown on this site).

Pressing quality is top, as could be expected (and which gives another hint in the above direction, that they were manufactured actually by the same company as all other C.A.M.-releases were), on heavy mid 60ies-vinyl, the cover artwork is expertedly done and great to enjoy (although most of the covers are not laminated, unfortunately), there are several fold-outs part of this series and they are as scarce as items from the CDR.-33-series, which indicates an equally small print-run of probabaly also only 500 copies per issue.

Well, since that is moreless what I have in my collection, I have to close now already and hope you will enjoy. If you have any questions, that have been left unanswered (and I am sure there are some ...), please do not hesitate to drop me a line e-mail! I answer all questions as fast as possible, plan to collect them and want to put them into a FAQ-section (which is planned for 2003!). The same goes of course, if you have any info or items for sale or trade available!!

AVAILABLE items (visually graded: cover/record; play-graded upon request):

CLP 100-011: Io, io, io .... e gli altri (Carlo Rustichelli), EX+/M-   
Please note: of all the listed items I have only one spare copy available; wants-lists welcomed (trade preferred!).

Italian Version

Another very interesting Italian soundtrack-series is the "CAMPI-series". But what does "Campi" actually mean? To my best knowledge, Campi is a subsidiary company of C.A.M. and its name can be found on many C.A.M.-covers (eg. from the CDR. 33-series: GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI by Nino Rota) as being the company (as well as "Delta") responsible for the "cover design", in other words: "Campi" designed the cover artwork for many C.A.M.-releases (LPs as well as 45 rpm-releases). Further comparing the two names, one soon realizes the striking identity between both names, "Campi" being nothing else than "Cam" with the affix "pi" added! So what does "pi" mean? I guess, without any in-depth knowledge of the Italian language and therefore purely speculating, that "pi" might mean something like "small(er)". Maybe it simply means that Campi is the small "Cam", the offspring of "Cam", the daughter-company, the later born, just a synonym for the "little baby Cam"? (No, I did not enjoy the Austin Powers-movies, the four original MATT HELM-movies were much better and had much better music and also acting!). I would be very happy if anybody with a better knowledge of the Italian language could shed some light into this. Maybe some Italian reader of these lines would be so very kind to drop me an e-mail (addy at the end of this introduction; thank you) ...?!

From the release- or cover-print-dates shown on the covers of the Campi 100.000-series it can be concluded that this company was active, as far as vinyl-releases are concerned, in the second half of the sixties, issuing slightly more than a dozen LPs, of which not all are yet shown on this site. Most noteworty are the releases which feature scores by the leading composers of that period, noteably Piero Piccioni, Francesco DeMasi and Carlo Rustichelli, of whose compositions some received their first (and sometimes only) pressing as part of this series (however, "Il momento della verita", Campi CLP. 100.006, by Piero Piccioni, was leter re-issued as C.A.M. Mag 10.006 and "Signore & Signori", Campi CLP. 100.013 - triple fold-out, by Carlo Rusichelli, was re-issued actually the same year (!) as C.A.M. AMG 2!). Other noteworty items are by Benedetto Ghiglia ("La bugiarda") and the DeMasi-compositions featured on the tripe F/O-edition of "Alla scoperta dell´Africa" (the accompaning "Alla scoperta dell´India" was released on the Sermi-label and is not yet shown on this site).

Pressing quality is top, as could be expected (and which gives another hint in the above direction, that they were manufactured actually by the same company as all other C.A.M.-releases were), on heavy mid 60ies-vinyl, the cover artwork is expertedly done and great to enjoy (although most of the covers are not laminated, unfortunately), there are several fold-outs part of this series and they are as scarce as items from the CDR.-33-series, which indicates an equally small print-run of probabaly also only 500 copies per issue.

Well, since that is moreless what I have in my collection, I have to close now already and hope you will enjoy. If you have any questions, that have been left unanswered (and I am sure there are some ...), please do not hesitate to drop me a line e-mail! I answer all questions as fast as possible, plan to collect them and want to put them into a FAQ-section (which is planned for 2003!). The same goes of course, if you have any info or items for sale or trade available!!

AVAILABLE items (visually graded: cover/record; play-graded upon request):

CLP 100-011: Io, io, io .... e gli altri (Carlo Rustichelli), EX+/M-   
Please note: of all the listed items I have only one spare copy available; wants-lists welcomed (trade preferred!).

Pagine Romane  Campi CLP 100-001  196  Rossellini 
Gli indifferenti  Campi CLP 100-002  1964  Fusco 
La bugiarda  Campi CLP 100-003  196  Ghiglia 
Musical Images  Campi CLP 100-005  196  Mangieri 
Il momento della verita  Campi CLP 100-006  196  Piccioni 
Saladino  Campi CLP 100-007  1965  Lavagnino 
Tokyo Olympiad  Campi CLP 100-00x  196  Mayuzumi 
Io io io .... e gli altri  Campi CLP 100-011  196  Rustichelli 
Alla scoperta dell'Africa (F/O)  Campi CLP 100-012  1966  DeMasi 
Signore & Signori (triple F/O)  Campi CLP 100-013  1966  Rustichelli 

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