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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Paolo Citarella
Author: Paolo Citorello
Label: Italian Book Company/Brunswick
Year: 1927
Sicilian singing seaman. Risqué song about a girl telling her mother how the moon over the sea makes her long for a husband. Followed by a list of candidates, all of a different trade (butcher, baker, shoemaker, farmer, carpenter, gardener, fisherman, policeman, fireman), parading their most typical attribute.
Covers:
Paolo Citarella [on Okeh as Mamma A Cer Maddari]
Paolo Dones [as A Luna Mmenzu 'u Mari]
Rosina Gioiora Trubia [as Mi Vogghiu Maritari]
Silvia Coruzzolo [as A Luna Mezzo O' Mare]
I Diavoli [as La Luna In Mezzo Al Mare]
Rudy Vallee [as Oh! Ma-Ma! (The Butcher Boy); credits go to Vallee, Citorello and Lew Brown, writer of Beer Barrel Polka and Life Is But A Bowl Of Cherries]
Andrews Sisters [as Oh! Ma-Ma!]
Glenn Miller [idem]
Trio Lescano [as La Luna In Mezzo Al Mare]
Louis Prima [as Zuma Zuma Barca La]
Lou Monte [as Lazy Mary in his typical 'Eyetalian' accent and two chorus in 'British']
Mills Brothers [as Oh! Ma-Ma!]
Pete Seeger [as C'e La Luna (The Butcher Boy)]
Louis Prima [as Che La Luna]
cast of The Godfather I [during Sicilian wedding shots]
Salix Alba [as Oh Mama]
Frank Simms [in Hugh Grant film Mickey Blue Eyes]
Slightly inspired by Rossini's La Danza, a Neapolitan tarantella with opening line: "Già la luna in mezzo al mare, mamma mia".
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)