DDD – La Drogueria di Drugolo

DDD – La Drogueria di Drugolo was an Italian record company, active from the 1970s to the 1990s.

The label was founded in 1979 by record producer Roberto Galanti and Baron Lando Lanni della Quara, a nobleman residing in the Castle of Drugolo (Lonato del Garda), from which he managed the family herbal business, from which the label's name derives, a drugstore ("drogheria" in Italian).^[1][2]

It signed several prominent Italian singer-songwriters, including Enzo Jannacci, Fausto Leali, Enzo Gragnaniello, and Paolo Scheriani, as well as artists such as Mia Martini, Fiorella Mannoia, and bands such as Le Orme and Gian Piero Reverberi with Rondò Veneziano. But the artist with whom it is most often identified is Eros Ramazzotti, who was launched by this label.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Until 1983, the label was distributed by RCA Italiana, but due to the latter's sale to the BMG – Bertelsmann Music Group, distribution was temporarily handed over to CBS, which held it until 1989. In 1989, Baron Lanni della Quara resigned as sole director and sold 50% of his shares to BMG, which, for a few years, continued to operate the label until it completed its acquisition and integrated its catalog into its own.^[8]

The dating reported here is based on the record label or cover; if neither of these elements is dated, it is based on the catalog numbering; sometimes, finally, it is based on the printing matrix code. If existing, the year, month, and day are shown (the latter is sometimes printed on the vinyl).

• Gino Castaldo, Dizionario della canzone italiana, Edizioni Curcio, 1990; alla voce DDD, di Mario De Luigi, p. 488–489.

• DDD at Discogs
• La Drogueria di Drugolo at Discogs