Amore : the story of Italian American song / Mark Rotella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rotella, Mark, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Italian Americans.

Music.

United States.

Italian American singers.

Italian Americans--Music--History and criticism.

Local Subjects:

Italian American singers.

Physical Description:

xviii, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

Contents:

The old country. "I have but one heart" ("O marenariello") : Frank Sinatra and Vic Damone ; "Vesti la giubba" : Enrico Caruso ; "Core 'ngrato" : Eduardo Migliaccio and Gilda Mignonette ; "O sole mio" : Enrico Caruso ; "Tip-toe through the tulips" : Nick Lucas ; "You call it madness (But I call it love)" : Russ Columbo ; "Sing, sing, sing" : Louis Prima ; "All or nothing at all" : Frank Sinatra ; "Night and day" : Frank Sinatra ; "Angelina" : Louis Prima ; "I'm gonna love that gal (like she's never been loved before)" : Perry Como ; "Prisoner of love" : Perry Como ; "Mam'selle" : Frank Sinatra

The Italian decade, the 1950s. "You're breaking my heart" : Vic Damone ; "That lucky old sun" : Frankie Laine ; "Be my love" : Mario Lanza ; "Here in my heart" : Al Martino ; "Because of you" : Tony Bennett ; "Your cheatin' heart" : Joni James ; "That's amore" : Dean Martin ; "Eh, cumpari!" : Julius La Rosa ; "Darktown strutters' ball (Italian-style)" : Lou Monte ; "(The gang that sang) Heart of my heart" : Don Cornell and Johnny Desmond ; "Sweet and gentle" : Alan Dale ; "I've got the world on a string" : Frank Sinatra ; "Just a gigolo" : Louis Prima ; "Innamorata" : Jerry Vale ; "Volare" : Dean Martin ; "Mama" : Connie Francis ; "Dream lover" : Bobby Darin ; "Lightnin' strikes" : Lou Christie ; "I wonder why" : Dion and the Belmonts ; "Sixteen candles" : Johnny Maestro and the Crests ; "Mack the Knife" : Bobby Darin ; "It's now or never" : Elvis Presley ; "The wanderer" : Dion ; "Walk like a man" : Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

Las Vegas. "Nice 'n' easy" : Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack ; "Bye bye blackbird" : Sammy Davis Jr. ; "Fly me to the moon" : Frank Sinatra ; "Fly me to the moon" (reprise) : Tony Bennett, September 2001.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-283) and index.

ISBN:

9780865476981

0865476985

OCLC:

555656279