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Conti, Corrado
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Corrado Conti, an Italian horn-player studied music at the Conservatorio di Parma. He founded an orchestra for light music and also played for the Orchestra Teatro della Scala. In the 1960s, he entered the Casa Ricordi as a composer of popular songs, sometimes collaborating with Danele Pace and Mario Panzeri of the famous Pace-Panzeri -Pilat trio. Probably his best-known song, written in 1968 with Francesco Cassano, was “Melodia,” sung originally by Isabella Iannetti, but made famous by Engelbert Humperdinck’s version, “The Way it Used to Be.”