I assume it was one of my first favourite songs I heard on the radio. When I was 7 years old the Italian couple, Al Bano and Romina Power (daughter of US actor Tyrone Power), sang “Felicita” (happiness, felicity). Italian music was not only quite popular in Italy but also in both parts of Germany, and also countries East of Germany.
I can’t remember if it might have been the appearance of Mrs. Power that might have made me inspired by this song 
… but definitely it is a good one and even today I like to listen to it.
Another hit I liked to hear was “Liberta” (1987), maybe influenced by the fact being behind a wall (“The Iron Curtain”), somehow.
Maybe some years earlier, I liked to listen to Roland Kaiser‘s “Santa Maria”. I may have not understood the Italian lyrics of Al Bano & Romina Power, but Kaiser’s lyrics about a girl that becomes a woman (at least I understood something like that) were quite interesting to me, aged 6 or 7.
Unfortunately Sony Music Entertainment has blocked any video of “Santa Maria” on YouTube Germany … but outside of Germany this one shall be possible to watch.
And even 30 years later, in 2009, Roland Kaiser is obviously still a big magnet … as you can see in this video of a concert in the city I live in, Dresden.
Another Italian singer, Riccardo Fogli, got out of my mind for quite some years but when I heard this song in 2010 again I remembered it immediately … “Storie di tutti i giorni”.
And just some minutes ago I found a version of 2008, with members of the Italian group Pupo and Al Bano … and sure, Riccardo Fogli.
