Tritons

Nico Di Palo (guitar, vocals)
Maurizio Salvi (keyboards)
Frank Laugelli (bass)
Ric Parnell (drums)

aided by
Kamsin Urzino (vocals)
Jimmy Villotti (guitar)
Roger Mazzoncini (keyboards)
Gilberto Faggioli (bass)
Daniel Palella (drums)

Another mysterious chapter in the long New Trolls saga, Tritons were an offshoot of Ibis, as during the recordings of their Canti d'innocenza, canti d'esperienza first album, the band released a personal arrangement of the Rolling Stones' classic Satisfaction, and their record company Fonit decided to release it as a single under the new name Tritons. By the time the single was recorded, their drummer Gianni Belleno had left the band and was replaced by former Atomic Rooster Ric Parnell, who also played on Ibis' second album.

The single was an instant hit in Italy as well as in other countries, and when the band left Fonit for the release of an album on Polydor, again called Satisfaction, the old record company issued an LP called Country rock live by Tritons, that despite the title was not a live album nor by the real Tritons, being a collection of covers played by an English group, the Roy Young Band, under a false name!

The Satisfaction LP was also a sort of divertissement for the musicians, being all made by covers of 50's and 60's rock classics with original and pleasant arrangements, but to make things more confused, another similar LP was released by the old drummer Gianni Belleno on Magma label as Johnny dei Tritons.

The "real" Tritons were in fact the ones on Polydor, a band composed by five musicians backing the four Ibis members.
In 1974, when Salvi and Parnell left Ibis, the remaining members Di Palo and Laugelli recruited two new musicians to record their third and last album, leaving Tritons to concentrate on their own work. The five remaining Tritons released a last single in 1976.

TRITONS LP
Satisfaction	Polydor (2448 020 L)	1973
CD
Satisfaction	Polydor (847072-2)	1994	reissue of 1973 album
	Universal (0602527316482)	2010	mini-LP single cover - part of the box set Progressive Italia - Gli anni '70 vol.3
SINGLES (with picture cover)
Satisfaction Drifter	Fonit (IS 20124)	1973
With a girl like you Rock around the clock	Polydor (2060 065)	1974
Ba ba ba New York city	Polydor (2060 084)	1976

JOHNNY DEI TRITONS LP
Twist and shout with Satisfaction	Magma (MAGL 18004)	1974
SINGLES (with picture cover)
Twist and shout My child	Magma (MGL 48005)	1973	Both tracks from Twist and shout with Satisfaction
Lady Pamela Don't worry	Magma (MGL 48009)	1974
Jumping fish Sweet sweet love	Magma (MAG 004)	1976	Side A from Twist and shout with Satisfaction

(THE FAKE) TRITONS LP
Country rock live	Fonit International (ILS 9031)	1973	single laminated cover
Rock on the road	Fonit International (ILS 9038)	1974	front laminated single cover - as "Roy Young with the Tritons"
Satisfaction by Tritons	Fonit/Pellicano (PL 423)	1980	reissue of the 1973 album with different title and cover
SINGLES (with picture cover)
I saw her standing there Let it rock	Fonit (IS 20133)	1973	both tracks from Country rock live

Both Tritons albums (the real one and the one by the false band) are easy to find and not expensive.
They have never been issued abroad nor counterfeited, but the Satisfaction single was issued in some foreign countries such as Spain (on Fonit Cetra/Zafiro) and France (Barclay N 61860).
Even I saw her standing there by the fake Tritons was issued in France as a single, on Barclay (620 055).

Along with the Country rock live album, at least another LP played by the Roy Young Band with the name Tritons exists, Rock on the road from 1974.
But Roy Young's website also lists another LP issued in 1973 by Fonit Cetra International, entitled If you could only see me now, on which there are no details.


Satisfaction - LP

Satisfaction - 7" single	Satisfaction - Spanish single

Ba ba ba - 7" single

Johnny dei Tritons/Twist and shout with Satisfaction - LP

Johnny dei Tritons/Twist and shout - 7" single

Johnny dei Tritons/Lady Pamela - 7" single

Johnny dei Tritons/Sweet sweet love - 7" single

Country rock live by Tritons - LP

Roy Young with the Tritons/Rock on the road - LP

I saw her standing there - 7" single

I saw her standing there - French 7" single

Roy Young's website, featuring in the discography his records with the Tritons, is at www.royyoung.com