{{Short description|Italian vocal group}} [[File:Los Marcellos Ferial.jpg|272px|thumbnail|Los Marcellos Ferial]] '''Los Marcellos Ferial''' (in some recordings the name is credited as '''I Marcellos Ferial''') are an Italian vocal group, mainly active in the sixties, consisting of Marcello Minerbi, Carlo Timò and Tullio Romano.
The vocal trio was formed by the label [[Durium Records|Durium]] as a response to the music of Latin America and the Caribbean which was then in trend in Italy; in particular, the trio was called to record a cover version of the [[Los Hermanos Rigual]] song "[[Cuando calienta el sol (song)|Cuando calienta el sol]]" before the rival record company [[RCA Records|RCA]] could properly publish the original version in Italy.<ref name=music/> Their version reached the first place on the Italian Hit Parade, but provoked the reaction of RCA who subsequently sued Durium.<ref name=music>{{cite book|last=Eddy Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|publisher=Panini Comics, 2009|isbn=8863462291}}</ref>
The trio was presented by the label and by the press as being composed of Mexicans, and appeared to the events to which was attending in a [[Chevrolet]] with a [[Venezuela]]n nameplate.<ref name=music/> When the truth came to light, the group managed to maintain equally successful, leaving the repertoire in Spanish language and winning the 1964 [[Disco per l'estate]] with the song "Sei diventata nera",<ref name=music/> which reached the second place on the Italian Hit Parade.<ref name=hitparade>{{cite book|last=Dario Salvatori|title=Storia dell'Hit Parade|publisher=Gramese, 1989|isbn=8876054391}}</ref> Other successes include "Angelita di Anzio" and "La casa del sole" (a cover version of "[[The House of the Rising Sun]]"),<ref name=music/> both peaking sixth on Hit Parade.<ref name="hitparade"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=mn0001290945|label=Los Marcellos Ferial}} * {{discogs artist|Los Marcellos Ferial}}
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Marcellos Ferial}} [[Category:Musical groups established in 1962]] [[Category:Italian pop music groups]] [[Category:1962 establishments in Italy]] [[Category:Spanish-language Italian singers]]