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Nino Oxilia (1889–1917), author of the lyrics of the hymn Musician Giuseppe Blanc (1886–1969), in the years before World War I. The author of the text was 19-year-old student Nino Oxilia, a future crepuscular poet, who, along with the writing of the hymn, was known for his celebrated goliardic past: he was, in fact, a prominent member of the A.T.U. (Associazione Torinese Universitaria ...
The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent; however, the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Andrew Khan, writing in The Guardian , later described the sound as reminiscent of Bob Dylan 's output from the 1980s.
The song has been recorded in a number of versions. The Italian version performed by Fran Jeffries appears in the film, but not on the soundtrack album.An instrumental that resembles the underscore of Jeffries' version is included on the soundtrack album, as is a group vocal with only vaguely related English lyrics (which can be heard in the film during the fancy-dress ball and costume party ...
" Musica leggerissima" ("Very light music") is a song written and recorded by Italian singer-songwriters Colapesce and Dimartino. Produced by Federico Nardelli and Giordano Colombo, the song was released as a single and included in I mortali² , the 2021 re-release of the duo's album I mortali , originally released in 2020.
Rondine al nido is a romance and one of the best known works of the Italian composer Vincenzo de Crescenzo, whose music was in the repertoire of Beniamino Gigli, Tito Schipa, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Richard Tucker, Luciano Pavarotti, Luigi Infantino, Ramón Vargas, Robert Dean Smith, Francesco Albanese, among many others.
The 46 lyrics of the songs were taken from an anthology of Italian poems by Paul Heyse (1830–1914), translated into German and published with the title of Italienisches Liederbuch in 1860. [3] Despite Heyse’s diverse poetic selections, Wolf preferred the rispetto , a short Italian verse usually consisting of eight lines of ten or eleven ...
"Carina" is a 1958 hit song written by Italian singer Corrado Lojacono under the pseudonym of composer "R. Poes", to Italian lyrics by Alberto Testa.He recorded the song himself in 1958 as the B-side to "Brivido Blu", but the song became his most successful song as a songwriter.
"Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)" ("It's raining [Bye bye, baby girl]") is a song composed by Domenico Modugno with Italian lyrics by Eduardo Verde. [1] It won first prize at the 1959 Sanremo Music Festival , where it was performed by both Modugno and Johnny Dorelli . [ 2 ]