Discoring

{{Short description|Italian music television show}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | genre = | creator = [[Gianni Boncompagni]] | developer = | writer = | director = | voices = | theme_music_composer = | opentheme = | endtheme = | composer = | country = Italy | language = Italian | num_seasons = 14 | num_episodes = | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = | editor = | runtime = | company = | channel = [[Rai 1]] | first_aired = {{start date|1977}} | last_aired = {{end date|1989}} | related = }}

[[File:Gianni_Boncompagni_Discoring_1977.jpg | thumb | 220x124px | right | alt= TV presenter Gianni Boncompagni during the inauguration of Discoring on Rai Uno | TV presenter Gianni Boncompagni during the inauguration of Discoring on Rai Uno]] '''''Discoring''''' was a music show broadcast by [[Rai 1]] from 1977 to 1989, created by [[Gianni Boncompagni]], aired mainly on Sunday. The program could be considered analogous to the English show ''[[Top of the Pops]]''.

== History == The first episode was broadcast February 20, 1977. The formula provided for the exhibition of Italian and international singers and groups (almost always in playback) and a rundown of the list of best selling albums and singles.<ref name=hhhs>Aldo Grasso – Massimo Scaglioni, ''Enciclopedia della Televisione'', Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003</ref>

Over the years several presenters followed: [[Gianni Boncompagni]] (assisted by Antonella Giampaoli and then by [[Roberta Manfredi]]), Awana Gana, [[Claudio Cecchetto]], the trio [[Anna Pettinelli]] - [[Isabel Russinova]] - Emanuela Falcetti, [[Jocelyn Hattab|Jocelyn]], Kay Rush, Sergio Mancinelli and [[Carlo Conti]].

Several opening themes of the show, such as Bus Connection's ''Guapa'' and Baba Yaga's ''Che gatta'' charted and became minor hits at the Italian hit parade.<ref name=hit>{{cite book|last=Dario Salvatori|title=Storia dell'Hit Parade|publisher=Gramese, 1989}}</ref>

Together with ''[[Domenica in]]'', ''Discoring'' is one of the few long-running RAI TV [[Color television|colour programmes]] that was originally aired in [[black-and-white]]. Indeed, it aired in colour only since its third season in 1978–79.<ref name=hhhs/> Further, in 1989 Rai broadcast in [[stereophonic sound|stereo]] the show's final season.<ref>{{Cite news | url = http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,23/articleid,1314_02_1989_0094_0023_19346746/ | language = Italian | title = Pop, rock & c.: è Discoring | work = [[Stampa Sera]] | location = [[Turin]] | date = 7 April 1989 | p = 23 | access-date = 2 May 2023 | trans-title = Pop, Rock & Co: It's Discoring }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:1977 Italian television series debuts]] [[Category:1989 Italian television series endings]] [[Category:Italian music television series]] [[Category:RAI original programming]] [[Category:1970s Italian television series]] [[Category:Pop music television series]]