Artist: Lucrezia Bori
Author: Gioacchino Rossini
Label: Victor
Year: 1914
Tarantella from his collection Les Soirées Musicales (1835). No Italian wedding is complete without this tune (as Tarantella Napolitana - C'è la luna mezzo mare - Oh Ma Ma).
Covers:
Franz Liszt [transposed the theme for piano]
Frédéric Chopin [inspiration for his Tarantelle en La bémol majeur - Op 43]
Ottorino Respighi [in La Boutique fantasque, a ballet on themes from Rossini]
Milton Berle [as Lucky Lucky Lucky Me]
Evelyn Knight & The Ray Charles Singers [idem, crediting Milton Berle/Buddy Arnold]
Mario Lanza [in film The Great Caruso]
Annette Funicello [as Lucky Lucky]
Adrienne Valerie [as Lucky Lucky Me and in a vintage mix also as Lucky Lucky Lucky Me]
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)