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(Redirected from Italian riff) Melody associated with Italy, particularly Naples Not to be confused with La Danza, also known as Tarantella Napoletana.
"Tarantella Napoletana" Performance by the United States Air Force Band's Air Force Strings
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The "Tarantella Napoletana" is a tarantella song by Luigi Ricci, associated with Naples. It is familiar to North American viewers of popular media as a quintessentially Italian musical riff or melody.

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The tarantella was adapted into the 1950 song "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me", written by Buddy Arnold and Milton Berle, and performed by Evelyn Knight and the Ray Charles Band.

It imparts its melody to a Bollywood song "Chahe Koi Kush Hojao" composed by S. D. Burman penned by Sahir Ludhianvi and sung by Kishore Kumar for the 1954 film Taxi Driver. It was also adapted as the starting melody of the Hindi song "Aaja Sanam Madhur Chandni" composed by Shankar-Jaikishan for the 1956 Indian film Chori Chori.

See also

References

  1. "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me". Secondhand Songs.
  2. "Original vs Copied bollywood songs". youtube.com.
  3. "#LifeIsMusic: Popular Bollywood songs inspired by western music". DNA India. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  4. "16 Famous Bollywood Songs You Wouldn't Believe Were Copied From The West". IndiaTimes. 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2023-11-03.


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