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"Dominick the Donkey" is a Christmas song written by Ray Allen, Sam Saltzberg and Wandra Merrell, and was recorded by Lou Monte in 1960, on Roulette Records. The song describes Dominick, a donkey who helps Santa Claus bring presents ("made in Brooklyn ") to children in Italy due to the reindeer , despite their flight, being unable to climb the ...
Lou Monte (born Louis Scaglione; April 2, 1917 – June 12, 1989) was an Italian American singer best known for a number of best-selling, Italian-themed novelty records which he recorded for both RCA Victor and Reprise Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s, most famously "Lazy Mary" (1958) and the 1962/63 million-selling US single "Pepino the Italian Mouse", plus the seasonal track ...
Dominick Cobb, from Inception; Dominick the Donkey, the Italian Christmas donkey from a 1960 song by Lou Monte; Dominick Hide, lead character in two episodes of the BBC's Play for Today series; Dominick Marone, from The Bold and the Beautiful; Dominick Santoro, Nicky Santoro's brother in the 1995 film Casino, based on Michael Spilotro
Inspired by the Tahitian ukulele, there is the Motu Nui variant, from France, which has just four strings made from fishing line and the hole in the back is designed to produce a wah-wah effect. [citation needed] Mario Maccaferri invented an automatic chording device for the ukulele, called Chord Master.
Never Take No for an Answer is a 1951 British–Italian drama film directed by Maurice Cloche and Ralph Smart and featuring Denis O'Dea, Vittorio Manunta, Guido Celano and Nerio Bernardi. It is based on Paul Gallico 's 1951 story The Small Miracle , about an Italian orphan boy who goes to visit the Pope.
An arpeggio for the chord of C major going up two octaves would be the notes (C, E, G, C, E, G, C). In musical notation, a very rapid arpeggiated chord may be written with a wavy vertical line in front of the chord. Typically these are read as to be played from the lowest to highest note, though composers may specify a high to low sequence by ...
The resonator ukulele is almost exclusively played in the standard guitar position. One of the few major players who is an exception to this rule is James Hill , who commissioned a specialized square-neck, high-action resonator ukulele from Beltona for the express purpose of playing in the lap style. [ 1 ]
Dominick Argento (October 27, 1927 – February 20, 2019) [2] was an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music. Among his best known pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco , Miss Havisham's Fire , The Masque of Angels , and The Aspern Papers .