Can anyone recommend any upbeat/jaunty Neapolitan or Sicilian music?

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I've been listening to quite a lot of Canzone Napoletana for the last few months, as well as some old Italian standards that I assume were reworked for release in the States. While I've been enjoying a lot of it, almost all of the music that I've found so far has been of the downcast, 'O Sole Mio' crooner-ballady sort of bent.

So now I've got this unfulfilled hankering for something along similar lines but preferably a little faster, more upbeat with lots of brass and that famous bounding rhythm - I suspect that this kind of music got its greatest international exposure (amongst younger people at least) during the wedding and party scenes in the Godfather movies (that's certainly where I first heard 'Che La Luna Mezzo Mare', for instance).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9FMvfvkBro

Here's another quite fun example of the sort of thing I'm talking about, an album track from Sergio Franchi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv2HIHrANpU

So can anyone here help me scratch this itch? Would be very grateful for any recommendations of songs with a similar atmosphere or sound to these two. Thanks.

Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:39 (eleven years ago)

thanks windsor for exposing an itch that i didn't know i had! this stuff is going to bring so much joy to my sicilian-american wife.

marcos, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:49 (eleven years ago)


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