Franco IV e Franco I

The duo consisted of Francesco "Franco" Romano (born in Naples on 26 July 1946) and Francesco "Franco" Calabrese (born in Naples on 10 March 1943).

[1] They started performing under their birth names in the early 1960s, in music halls and clubs of Amalfi Coast.

[1] Initially the duo had a repertoire of cover songs, mainly classics of the Canzone Napoletana, rearranged in a modern beat style.

[1] In 1968, shortly after adopting their stage name and starting to record original songs, they got a large success with the song "Ho scritto t'amo sulla sabbia", which reached the first place and stayed sixteen weeks in the top ten of the Italian hit parade.

[1][2] After a number of minor hits, the duo disbanded in the early 1970s as Romano decided to abandon his music career to pursue his studies.