Volume 3 (Fabrizio De André album)
Volume 3 (Vol. 3°) is the third album released by Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André. It was first issued in 1968 on Bluebell Records and is De André's last studio release on Bluebell. Of the songs contained in the album, only four were previously unreleased; the other ones are re-recordings of tracks originally issued on 45-rpm records during De André's early stint with the Karim label. The songs. Alternate explicit lyrics to "La canzone di Marinella". The fifth verse of "Marinella", as De André originally wrote it, was  notably more explicit in its depiction of the actual rape act: "It started with a caress and a little kiss / then he moved straight onto a blowjob; / and under the threat of a straight razor / you were forced to spit and swallow." However, by the time he went into the studio to record the song, De André was well aware of how strict Italian censorship was in seizing upon even the tiniest hints of explicitness (having previously experienced censorship on his earlier song "Carlo Martello") and decided not to record the explicit verse at all; he rewrote it as "There  were kisses and there were smiles / then it was only cornflowers, / which, as your eyes were looking at the stars, / saw your skin shivering to the wind and the kisses," which made a better fit to the overall "sweet" mood of the lyrics. However, De André did include the alternate verse in his earliest live performances, starting from his very first concert residency in 1975 at the famous "Bussola" nightclub in Viareggio. It can be heard in a March 15, 1975 recording of his, as featured in the 2012 release "La Bussola e Storia di un impiegato: il concerto 1975-'76 ; on the same recording, the live audience can be heard reacting enthusiastically to the lyrical change, as they did not expect the song (which was already popular by then) to have any alternate" lyrics at all. On the other hand, a critic for Corriere della Sera, reviewing the opening night, unceremoniously referred to the performance as a "porn version of "Marinella"". During the 1975 residency, De André performed the song in a very similar arrangement to the studio version; after Franco Mussida from PFM reworked the song into a melancholic ballad for the band's historical 1979 concert tour with  De André, the singer dropped the explicit verse and went back to its "radio-friendly" equivalent.