TORNA A SORRENTO!
Created on 07/03/2001Latest update on 03/08/2021
Artist: Mario Massa
Author: Ernesto De Curtis
Label: Odeon
Year: 1905
Means: Go Back To Sorrento. In Neapolitan dialect spelled as Surriento. First published in 1904 and sold for the price of 2 Lire.
Covers:
- 1910:
Carmen Melis [Edison cylinder]
- 1935:
- 1938:
- 1938:
Freddy Martin [as Come Back To Sorrento]
- 1941:
Woody Herman [idem]
- 1947:
Josef Locke [idem]
- 1947:
Vic Damone [idem]
- 1947:
Phil Brito [idem, partly in Italian]
- 1951:
- 1952:
Dean Martin [partly in Italian]
- 1959:
- 1961:
Elvis Presley [n°1 US, UK & B as Surrender; arrangement: Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman]
- 1962:
Dean Martin [as Take Me In Your Arms]
- 1963:
Allan Sherman [as Me]
- 1966:
- 1969:
Rocco Granata [on his lp Successi Italiani]
- 1973:
- 1985:
- 1989:
Julio Iglesias [as Torna A Sorriento]
- 1994:
- 1995:
Doctor Ammondt [as Nunc Aeternitatus on cd Elvis Songs Sung In Latin]
- 1995:
- 1995:
- 1995:
- 1999:
Chevalier Brothers [as Return To Sorrento]
Not the first time Italian belcanto hit with Elvis, remember It's Now Or Never (see: O Sole Mio). Elvis was an out-and-out Mario Lanza fan.
