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[2] [3] The song was also included in the 2010 videogame Mafia II, as part of the fictional radio station Empire Classic. In early 2022 the song was used as part of a popular TikTok trend where creators would use the song showing things in their home that "just make sense" while making a stereotypical Italian hand gesture to the beat of the song.
Boney M.'s version was a cover of Italian artist Massara's 1979 summer hit "Margherita (Love In The Sun)" which was sung in Italian and was released in English in the UK under the title "Margarita (Mamma, Oh Mamma)". [1]
The song was also recorded by Connie Francis in 1959 for her album Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites, with her hit single released in February 1960. Arranged and conducted by Tony Osborne, the Connie Francis version of the song was a number two hit in the UK, [9] and peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. [10]
Music critics gave the song mostly positive reviews, complimenting its catchy instrumentals, but doubted the role of the featured artist by calling it "not convincing". An accompanying music video for "Mamma Mia", directed by Dan Petcan and Bogdan Filip, premiered on the Cat Music YouTube channel on 21 May 2014 and was supported by a giveaway.
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In 1829, he wrote to a friend, "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'O Mamma, Mamma Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it." [2] Since then, the tune has been used for a number of popular songs, such as "If You Should Go to Venice" and "My Hat, It Has Three Corners" (or in German, Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken).
Casarosa gave Romer a playlist consisting of Italian music and folk-pop from the 1950 and 1960s. Romer had said that "There's no doubt those songs influenced my writing. When I score a film that invokes the music of another culture, I like to dig in very deep and live and breathe that music so that it becomes second nature." [5]
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