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Melodic Neapolitan Song Tradition - Munasterio 'e Santa Chiara (Nunnery of Santa Chiara)


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Sung and played by Roberto Murolo - RIP...

 

Song was sung through time by many artists

 

A true classic of the Neapolitan song tradition

 

 

 

 

 

This song tells about a Neapolitan man who wants to come back to Naples after the Second world war but he's afraid of seeing Naples, destroyed after bombardments.

 

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/munasterio-e-santa-chiara-nunnery-santa-chiara.html-0

 

 

 

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You Tell Her  (in Neapolitan dialect)

 

Toni Esposito - percussion

 

Old  song (composed in 1930 ) revisited

 

Alan Sorrenti version

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tell  this to your friend
that I lost my sleep and my thoughts,
that I always think of her
that she’s my whole life,
and there’s something I’d like to tell her myself
but I cannot tell her this

 

[Refrain:]
I love her a lot,
I love her more than a lot.
You tell her this
I won’t ever forget her,
she’s a passion,
stronger than a chain
that torments my soul
and doesn’t let me live

 

Tell her that she’s a rose of May,
that is much more beautiful than a sunny day.
From her lips
that are fresher than violets
I still want to hear
That she’s in love with me

 

(refrain)

 

A glistening teardrop is about to fall,
tell me for a moment, who do you think of?
With such sweet eyes
thyself alone is staring at me.
Let’s do away with these masks
let us speak the truth

I love you a lot,
I love you more than a lot.


It’s you this chain
that will not ever break.
Gentle dream
my flesh is yearning for,
I seek after you like the air,
I need you in order to live

 

 

 

Saw him (Sorrenti) eons ago at the beginning of his career and he was extremely good....Then through the years his music became  more and more commercial and less and less interesting....Unfortunately.....

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The Mother of all the classic Naples songs

 

 

Enrico Caruso - O Sole Mio ( Sun of mine)...Lots and lots of versions ( including the one by Elvis Presley "It's now or never")...This is the original

 

 

 

 

 

What a wonderful thing a sunny day
The serene air after a thunderstorm
The fresh air, and a party is already going on…
What a wonderful thing a sunny day.

 

But another sun,
that’s brighter still
It’s my own sun
that’s in your face!
The sun, my own sun
It’s in your face!
It’s in your face!

 

When night comes and the sun has gone down,
I start feeling blue;
I’d stay below your window
When night comes and the sun has gone down.

 

But another sun,
that’s brighter still
It’s my own sun
that’s in your face!
The sun, my own sun
It’s in your face!
It’s in your face!

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Between 1875 and the First World War millions and millions of Italians left their country, coming mainly from the southern regions and directed mainly to the Americas, just from Campania they were nearly one million. They had with them the desire to live in a better world, and brought their own culture and customs, including food ... and Pizza!

 

For Neapolitans, Pizza is a religion, and this simple, tasty and nutritious dish soon gained the favor of Americans as well: the first pizzeria opened in New York in 1895. Within a few decades, pizza became, together with pasta, among the most popular foods in the United States and later in Canada, to become, nowadays, a universal dish

 

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