'Okay Napulitan!: Social Change and Cultural Identity in the Songs of Renato Carosone'. Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). The original Rosemary Clooney recording has become a prominent soundtrack item, serving as the opening theme for the 1988 film Married to the Mob and also being heard in the films Mermaids (1990), A Man of No Importance (1994), Big Night (1996), Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), and School for Seduction (2004). In the 1955 Italian comedy film Scandal in Sorrento ( Pane, amore e.), Sophia Loren dances voluptuously opposite Vittorio de Sica to an instrumental arrangement of the tune made by Merrill, in a simplified, local imitation of mambo dancing (she was also required to dance to the song in the 1960 Hollywood comedy It Started in Naples ). The word tiavanna is invented.Ĭover versions Dean Martin version Other words are in Italo-English slang: (goombah, from cumpà, literally godson/godfather but more broadly fellow countryman, and 'jadrool' or ' cidrule', a stupid person, closely related to cetriolo, Italian for 'cucumber', but in Sicilian dialect meaning jackass.

A number of Italian words are deliberately misspelled (' Giovanno' instead of ' Giovanni', and ' hello, che se dice' which is Italian slang for 'hello, what's up?'.

Neapolitan: paisa' (in Italian paesano in English villager or fellow countryman).

Spanish: mambo, enchilada, rumba, (the Spanish words mambo and rumba are commonly used in Italian with the same meaning).Italian: italiano (Italian), Napoli (Naples), siciliano (Sicilian), calabrese (Calabrian), tarantella (tarantella), mozzarella (mozzarella), pizza, baccalà (salted codfish), bambino (child), vino (wine).Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).The nonsense lyrics were originally couched in English, mixed together with a comic jumble of Italian, Spanish, Neapolitan dialect and gibberish (invented) words, including:

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