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| 'Mambo Italiano' | |
|---|---|
| Single by Rosemary Clooney and the Mellomen | |
| B-side | 'We'll Be Together Again' |
| Released | October 11, 1954 |
| Format | 7' |
| Genre | Novelty song |
| Label | Columbia |
| Songwriter(s) | Bob Merrill, Frankie Laine, William S. Fischer |
| Producer(s) | Buddy Cole, Paul Weston |
'Mambo Italiano' is a popular song written by Bob Merrill in 1954 for the American singer Rosemary Clooney. The song became a hit for Clooney, reaching the Top Ten in record charts in the US and France and No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart early in 1955. The song has shown enduring popularity, with several cover versions and appearances in numerous films.
Writing and original Rosemary Clooney version[edit]
Merrill reportedly wrote it under a recording deadline, scribbling hastily on a paper napkin in an Italian restaurant in New York City, and then using the wall pay-phone to dictate the melody, rhythm and lyrics to the studio pianist, under the aegis of the conductor Mitch Miller, who produced the original record.[1] Alongside Merrill, 'Lidianni' and 'Gabba' are also listed as writers of the song,[2][3] corresponding to the pseudonyms of the Italian lyricists Gian Carlo Testoni and Gaspare Abbate, respectively.
Merrill's song provides an obvious parody of genuine mambo music, cashing in on the 1954 mambo craze in New York, while at the same time allowing Miller to set up a brilliant vehicle for Clooney's vocal talents.[4] It is also a late example of an American novelty song in a tradition started during World War II by the Italian-American jazz singer Louis Prima, in which nonsense lyrics with an Italian-American sound are used in such a way as to present a stereotyped caricature of Italian-American people (who had been classed with 'enemy alien' status and discouraged from speaking Italian) as likable, slightly brash, pleasure-loving folk.[5] Although Clooney's own family background was Irish-American, she could perform such 'Italianized' material with an entirely convincing accent, which she had readily picked up from Italian-American musicians and their families.[5]
The nonsense lyrics[4][6] were originally couched in English, mixed together with a comic jumble of Italian, Spanish, Neapolitan dialect and gibberish (invented) words, including:
- Italian: italiano (Italian), Napoli (Naples), siciliano (Sicilian), calabrese (Calabrian), tarantella (tarantella), mozzarella (mozzarella), pizza, baccalà (salted codfish), bambino (child), vino (wine).
- Spanish: mambo, enchilada, rumba, (the Spanish words mambo and rumba are commonly used in Italian with the same meaning).
- Neapolitan: paisa' (in Italian paesano; in English villager or fellow countryman).
- A number of Italian words are deliberately misspelled ('Giovanno' instead of 'Giovanni', and 'hello, che se dice' which is Italian slang for 'hello, what's up?'. Other words are in Italo-English slang: (goombah, from cumpà, literally godson/godfather but more broadly fellow countryman, and 'jadrool' or 'cidrule', a stupid person, closely related to cetriolo, Italian for 'cucumber', but in Sicilian dialect meaning jackass. The word tiavanna is a malapropism for Tijuana.
Chart history[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
The song reached No. 8 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 50 Best Selling Records chart, in a tandem ranking of Don Cornell, Nick Noble, Kay Armen, and Roy Rogers & Dale Evans's versions, with Don Cornell and Nick Noble's versions marked as bestsellers.[7] The song also reached No. 7 on Billboard's Honor Roll of Hits, with Don Cornell and Nick Noble's versions listed as best sellers.[8]
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In Australia, the song charted regionally. It entered the Brisbane charts in January 1956, and reached No. 3. In Sydney, it charted twice: in January, when it reached No. 10 (in a 10-song Hit Parade), and again in March 1956 when it went to No. 4.
| Chart (1954-55) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| France (IFOP)[9] | 8 |
| UK[10] | 1 |
| US Billboard Best Sellers in Stores[11] | 10 |
| US Billboard Most Played in Juke Boxes[11] | 9 |
| US Billboard Most Played by Jockeys[11] | 13 |
| US Cash Box[12] | 8 |
Cover versions[edit]
Dean Martin version[edit]
It was successfully covered by the popular Italian-American star Dean Martin.[13]
In 2006, the German Nu jazz and Lounge music act Club des Belugas (see German Wikipedia) officially released a remix of the Dean Martin version on their album Apricoo Soul, with official authorization on behalf of Capitol Records/EMI and Martin's estate.
Carla Boni version[edit]
Acrobat distiller 5.0 software. Mambo Italiano became popular in Italy when Carla Boni scored a major hit with her version of 1956.[13][14] Also in 1956,[15]Renato Carosone, a singer and band leader from Naples, recorded a successful version that weaves in several fragments of Neapolitan song, of which he was a leading exponent.[2]
Other cover versions[edit]
Cover versions of the song made in other languages include a French translation made by the Turkish polyglot singer Darío Moreno.[13] Other covers in various genres from around the world include a salsa setting by the Italian musician Massimo Scalici; a V-pop version by the Vietnamese group Hồ Quang Hiếu; an instrumental by the Swedish electric guitarist Mattias Eklundh; a Latin ska number by Federico Fosati and Dinamo from Mallorca; and a version by the British electronica duo Shaft.[16]Bette Midler remade 'Mambo italiano' for her 2002 album Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook. Patrizio Buanne realesed a cover on his album Patrizio (album) in 2009. Dean Martin's daughter, Deana Martin released a cover on her 2006 album Memories Are Made of This. The 'Mambo italiano' tune features at the start of Lady Gaga's 2011 song 'Americano'.[16]Iggy Azalea samples the song on her 2019 single 'Lola'.
Use in films[edit]
In the 1955 Italian comedy film Scandal in Sorrento (Pane, amore e..), Sophia Loren dances to an instrumental arrangement of the tune, opposite Vittorio de Sica in a simplified imitation of mambo dancing;[17] she also dances to the song in the 1960 Hollywood comedy It Started in Naples.[13] The original Rosemary Clooney recording has become a prominent soundtrack item, serving as the opening theme for the 1988 film Married to the Mob and also being heard in the films Mermaids (1990), A Man of No Importance (1994), Big Night (1996), Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), and School for Seduction (2004).
References[edit]
- ^Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 17. ISBN978-0-85112-250-2.
- ^ abScuderi, Antonio (2010). 'Okay Napulitan!: Social Change and Cultural Identity in the Songs of Renato Carosone'. Italica. 87 (4): 619–636. JSTOR23070816.
..in the American song, 'Mambo Italiano,' [Carosone] inserts fragments of various Neapolitan standards, including 'Simmo a Napoli paisà' (Siamo a Napoli paesano), 'Dicitencello vuje' (Diteglielo voi), 'Marechiaro,' and 'O sole mio.'
- ^'Search results for: 'mambo italiano merrill lidianna gabba''. www.canzoneitaliana.it. Portale della canzone italiana. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019.
- ^ abCrossland, Ken; Macfarlane, Malcolm (2013). Late Life Jazz: The Life and Career of Rosemary Clooney. Oxford University Press USA. pp. 28, 62–63. ISBN978-0-19-979857-5.
- ^ abCarnevale, Nancy C. (2003). ''No Italian Spoken for the Duration of the War': Language, Italian-American Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in the World War II Years'. Journal of American Ethnic History. 22 (3): 3–33. JSTOR27501314.
- ^'Rosemary Clooney - Mambo Italiano lyrics'. lyricstranslate.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019.
- ^'Cash Box Top 50 Best Selling Records', Cash Box, October 1, 1955. p. 28. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^'Honor Roll of Hits', Billboard, September 17, 1955. p. 36. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^'Toutes les Chansons N° 1 des Années 70' (in French). InfoDisc. 1954-10-12. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
- ^Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 39–40. ISBN978-1-904994-10-7.
- ^ abcWhitburn, Joel (2000) The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 137.
- ^'Cash Box Top 50 Best Selling Records', Cash Box, October 1, 1955. p. 28. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
- ^ abcdGuaitamacchi, Ezio (2011). 'Rosemary Clooney – Mambo italiano'. 1000 canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita (in Italian). Rizzoli. p. 31. ISBN978-88-586-1742-7.
- ^'Addio Carla Boni, regina del Mambo italiano (obituary)'. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 17 October 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^Deregibus, Enrico (2010). 'Renato Carosone'. Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana (in Italian). Giunti Editore. p. 97. ISBN978-88-09-75625-0. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- ^ abWright, Joseph (15 July 2015). 'Five Good Covers: Mambo Italiano (Rosemary Clooney)'. Cover Me.
- ^Uffreduzzi, Elisa (2017). 'Mambo and Maggiorate: Italian Female Stardom in the 1950s'. In Virginia Picchietti, Laura A. Salsini (ed.). Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture. Springer. p. 71. ISBN978-3-319-40835-4.
External links[edit]
- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
- Audio at Internet Archive