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In the United States, an early edition of the song, with an English translation by Thomas Oliphant, was published by M. McCaffrey, Baltimore. In Sweden , Finland , Denmark , the Faroe Islands , and Norway , "Santa Lucia" has been given various lyrics to accommodate it to the winter-light Saint Lucy's Day , at the darkest time of the year.
"Stessa spiaggia, stesso mare" (English: "Same beach, same sea") is a song written by Piero Soffici and Mogol. Italian singer Piero Focaccia was the first to record the song, [2] but Mina released the song about a month earlier. It is noteworthy that Mina uses the same arrangement as in the original, rather than adapting it for herself as she ...
"Mare mare" (lit. "Sea sea"), also known " Mare mare (Bologna-Riccione) ", is a 1992 Italian song composed by Mauro Malavasi and Luca Carboni and performed by Luca Carboni. The music was composed by Carboni at his holiday home on Elba , while the lyrics were composed almost a year later, during a car trip from Riccione to Bologna , when Carboni ...
The song reflects the beauty of the city's great surroundings and the love and passion of its citizens. More recent research indicates that the song may merely have been reworked for the occasion; family papers indicate that the brothers deposited a copy with the Italian Society of Authors and Editors in 1894, eight years before they claimed to ...
Cc'è la luna n menzu ô mari" (Sicilian for 'There's the moon amid the sea'), mostly known in the English-speaking world as "C'è la luna mezzo mare", "Luna mezz'o mare" and other similar titles, is a comic Sicilian song with worldwide popularity, traditionally styled as a brisk 6 8 tarantella. The song portrays a mother-daughter "coming of ...
“Mairzy Doats” is a novelty song written and composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston. It contains lyrics that make no sense as written, but are near homophones of meaningful phrases. The song's title, for example, is a homophone of "Mares eat oats".
"Tra te e il mare" (lit. ' "Between you and the sea" ' ) is a song written by Italian singer-songwriter Biagio Antonacci and originally recorded by Laura Pausini . The song, produced by Pausini herself with Alfredo Cerruti and Dado Parisini, was released on 21 August 2000 as the first single from the album of the same name. [ 1 ]
The song entered the 1982 Festivalbar, winning the Disco Verde competition. [5] It proved to be a major hit and became Russo's signature song, even if it tied Russo to the unwanted stereotype of an easy pop songs performer; [1] [6] Russo, who was interested to a more mature and sophisticated repertoire, ended up to refuse to perform the song for years.