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).
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)