An appealing and emotive vocalist, Aldo Dona has been part of the Italian music scene since the early '40s. When recordings were issued on 78s, that was what he made; in the '50s and '60s he began releasing 45s, including the double-sided hit of "I Balli Sudamericai" and "La Danza Dello Scoiattolo." The excitable Italian pop music market seems to be in a holding pattern concerning reissuing Dona's musical donations in the compact disc market, but this is most likely just a matter of time. After all, there apparently used to be a saying that, loosely translated, Dona was a man who would have put records out on a "panini" if he had to -- that's sort of a sandwich roll. Willing to spare him such extremes in the early days was the Cetra label, which had its own orchestra for recordings called the Orchestra Cetra. This outfit was often conducted by the mysterious B. Mojetta, a man to be commended for his own lip-smacking composition and recording entitled "Clarinet Marmalade." One of the titles Dona recorded with this orchestra was "La Danse Du Spirou," cut too early in history to be considered a Spiro Agnew tribute. In 1947, Dona and the Cetra company jumped in on the international demand for cover versions of a ditty originally entitled "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas." This monumental tribute to indecision -- English title, "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" -- had two competing Italian versions, the Dona cover and a version by Wilhelme la Sua Orchestra Tipica on the Durium label. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi