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Artist: Beniamino Gigli
Author: Cesare Bixio/Bruno Cherubini
Label: Voce del Padrone
Year: 1940
The most popular Italian tenor between Caruso and Pavarotti. With Dino Olivieri's Orchestra (see also: Tornerai). Theme from the sentimental film Mamma. Many years later, Sophia Loren hums the Mamma theme in Ettore Scola film Una Giornata Particulare, but that particular scene is set in 1938. Director's bloop.
Covers:
Vic Damone [as Mama]
David Whitfield [idem]
Tino Rossi [as Maman; his Maman (la plus belle du monde) is a cover of the other Piu Bella Del Mondo; see there]
Connie Francis [n°2 UK]
Margot Eskens [hit GER]
Heintje [as Mama]
Not to be confused with La Piu Bella Del Mondo; see there.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)