La prima cosa bella (song)

Lucio Battisti, heard the song, offered to Di Bari to record a demo, in which he played the guitar, being accompanied by Franz Di Cioccio, Damiano Dattoli, Andrea Sacchi and Flavio Premoli, musicians who often collaborated with Battisti for his recordings.^[3] The arranger Gian Franco Reverberi eventually decided to use this version as the base, just adding the string orchestra conducted by the Reverberi.^[3] The song was initially planned to be performed at the Sanremo Music Festival by Di Bari together with Gianni Morandi, who after recording an audition eventually gave up.^[4]

In 2008 the Ricchi e Poveri's version was included in the musical score of the Paolo Sorrentino's film Il Divo.^[5] In 2010 the song named an award-winning film directed by Paolo Virzì; a new version of the song performed by Italian-Moroccan singer Malika Ayane was included in the soundtrack of the film^[6] and reached the fifth place on the Italian hit parade.^[7]

Nicola Di Bari version

7" single

1. "La prima cosa bella" (Nicola Di Bari, Mogol)
2. "...e lavorare" (Nicola Di Bari, Mogol)

Ricchi e Poveri version

7" single

1. "La prima cosa bella" (Nicola Di Bari, Mogol)
2. "Due gocce d'acqua" (Franco Califano, Angelo Sotgiu, Franco Gatti)