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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 ...
Canzone napoletana (Italian: [kanˈtsoːne napoleˈtaːna]; Neapolitan: canzona napulitana [kanˈdzoːnə napuliˈtɑːnə]), sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song, is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, although well represented by female soloists as well, and expressed in familiar genres such as the ...
Già la luna è in mezzo al mare, mamma mia, si salterà! Presto in danza a tondo, a tondo, donne mie venite qua, un garzon bello e giocondo a ciascuna toccherà, finchè in ciel brilla una stella e la luna splenderà. Il più bel con la più bella tutta notte danzerà. Mamma mia, mamma mia, già la luna è in mezzo al mare, mamma mia, mamma mia,
"Lazy Mary (Luna Mezzo Mare)", an Italian-American wedding tarantella " Lazy Mary, Will You Get Up ", a British nursery rhyme Topics referred to by the same term
The original name, in Sicilian, is "La luna ammenzu 'o mari", or "La luna 'n menzu 'o mari" in Calabrian dialect. The correct Neapolitan title would be "a luna mezz' o mare". In Italian it would be "La luna mezzo al mare".
She essentially had no speaking lines in the first film, but sang "Luna Mezz'o Mare" in Italian in a wedding scene. [2] In The Godfather Part II ' s flashback scenes, the young Carmela is portrayed by Francesca De Sapio. [3] King refused to lie in a coffin to portray her character in death for superstitious reasons.
The 1964 songs were recorded for an LP titled The Little Dancing Chicken, (an English translation of "Il Pulcino Ballerino", the award-winning song that year). The LP was released in the United States.
The popular wedding tarantella C'è la luna mezzo mare has appeared in feature films such as The Godfather (1972). [ 11 ] In The Godfather Part II (1974), Frankie Pentangeli tries to get the band playing at Michael's son's First Communion party (whose members are not Italian) to play a tarantella; following some quick coaching, the band instead ...