I Camaleonti (the Chameleons) were a group formed in Milan in 1964 and specialized, during their first period, simply in performance of english and US covers for concerts in Milan and Lombardia. They have signed afterwards a contract with the label Kansas and they published versions in Italian of songs by Manfred Mann, Animals, Herman's Hermits and even Rolling Stones (Get Off Of My Cloud, a very hard attempt) and Beatles (Norwegian Wood, even more difficult).
They were selected to participate to the very popular summer event Cantagiro during 1966, where they have arrived at the fourth place with the soft-beat song Chiedi chiedi ("ask, ask", an original) becoming so one of the well known groups during the most succesfull period of the Beat genre in Italy. During the same year the front-man Riki Maiocchi left the group to start a solo career (initially with a good success) and two new musicians have reached the group, Tonino Cripezzi and Mario Lavezzi, coming from The Trappers. The group had the opportunity to propose in Italy the cover of Homburg, the international success of the Procol Harum (with the Italian title L'ora dell'amore, the hour of the love) and afterwards the new members Cripezzi and Lavezzi have turned the repertory of the group more towards the pop genre, gathering a very large success with melodic songs as Eternità or Applausi or Io per lei.
See more information, including personnel, cover images and discography, on Music Graffiti website (in English).
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