Artist: Fiorella Bini e Adriano Valle
Author: Giuseppe Fanciulli/Nisa
Label: Polydor
Year: 1955
Means little boy in Napolitanian dialect.
Covers:
Aurelio Fierro [at the Napoli song contest]
Marino Marini [as Guaglione and later also as Bambino]
Renato Carosone [n°1 It]
Dalida [as Bambino, her third single and first big success; translated by Jacques Larue (Cerisier rose et pommier blanc, Avril au Portugal)]
Gloria Lasso [idem]
Georges Guetary [idem]
Dean Martin [as The Man Who Plays The Mandolino]
Caterina Valente [idem]
Plastic Bertrand [as Bambino; punk version]
Giuseppe Fanciulli is an alias for Pasquale Giuseppe Fucilli. Nisa is an alias for Nicola Salerno who also wrote the lyrics of Non Ho L'eta.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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