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"Buona Sera" (sometimes titled "Buona Sera, Signorina") is a song written by Carl Sigman and Peter de Rose, and best known for being performed by Louis Prima in 1956. It reached number one in the singles charts in Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway, and is ranked number 3 on the all-time best-selling singles chart in Flanders between 1954 and 2014, as compiled by Ultratop. [1]
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 ...
"Deep Purple", DeRose's most famous song, was written in 1934 as a piano composition, with lyrics added a few years later by Mitchell Parish. It was a hit for Larry Clinton & His Orchestra in 1939 and was recorded by Artie Shaw , Glenn Miller , Duke Ellington , and Sarah Vaughan .
The words are sometimes said to be onomatopoeic, made up from the sound of the spinning wheel, “sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda", and then the sound of the foot pedal brake slowing down the wheel; "ret, set, set.” This interpretation, however, is questionable, due to the fact that spinning wheels don't have a "foot pedal brake", or any ...
The song popularized the title expression "que sera, sera" to express "cheerful fatalism", though its use in English dates back to at least the 16th century. The phrase is evidently a word-for-word mistranslation of the English "What will be will be", [8] as in Spanish, it would be "lo que será, será ". [3]
The list contains a total of 696 songs in 9 different languages. [note 1] All songs were released during or after Dalida's lifetime, either on vinyl or CD or as a music video on TV or DVD, except 2 songs [note 2] that didn't receive any public broadcast or release, but are internet leaked unofficially.
Colombian singer Karol G performed two songs on Saturday Night Live (April 15) last night from her chart-topping album Mañana Será Bonito, the first Spanish-language Billboard 200 chart-topper ...
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.