Tony Rallo
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Tony Rallo is a songwriter and orchestra conductor from Tunis.[1][2]
Rallo has written a number of songs for other artists,[3] such as Dalida, Catherine Ferry, Caroline Verdi, Francis Lalanne, Daniel Guichard,[4] Johnny Hallyday, and Charles Aznavour.
He was the orchestra leader for a number of arrangements for Aznavour and Dalida on the Barclay label.[5][6][4][7] He was also conductor for the French Eurovision Song Contest entry in 1976, Catherine Ferry's song "Un, Deux, Trois".[8]
As a performer, Rallo scored a top 40 hit in the UK singles chart, with the double a-side single "Holdin' On"/"Burnin' Alive" reaching number 34 in March 1980.[9] The song was credited to Tony Rallo and the Midnite Band, the band being made up of session musicians, including backing vocalists John and Arthur Simms (as The Midnite Voices),[10] drummer Peter Van Hooke, bassist Mo Foster, guitarists Rick Hitchcock and Hugh Burns, keyboardist John Mealing, percussionist Frank Ricotti, synthesizer programmist Georges Rodi, the Pat Halling String Ensemble, and brass section Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, George Young, and Jon Faddis.[11] Most of the Midnite Band were regular collaborators with producer Alec R. Costandinos, and had appeared on the Love & Kisses album You Must Be Love.
References
- ↑ "Tony Rallo" (in French).
- ↑ Letren, Alexandre (2022-03-06). "The Générique - Tv Show : Tony Rallo, auteur - compositeur - arrangeur (Zappe Zappeur) | La loi des séries #554". VL Média (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ↑ "Tony Rallo - Œuvres musicales de cet auteur". BNF. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- 1 2 Hammou, Karim (2014). Une histoire du rap en France (in French). Paris: La Découverte. p. 32. ISBN 978-2-7071-8198-5. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
- ↑ "La chanteuse Dalida : de l'Italie à l'Egypte, une histoire française". Radio France. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ↑ Le petit Lecoeuvre illustré (in French). Monaco: Rocher. 2012. ISBN 978-2-268-07471-9. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
- ↑ Rihoit, Catherine (1995). Dalida (in French). Paris: Plon. ISBN 978-2-259-00083-3. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
- ↑ "Tony Rallo". All conductors of Eurovision. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
- ↑ "Tony Rallo". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
- ↑ "Tony Rallo and the Midnite Band". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
- ↑ "Burnin' Alive". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2025.