Canzone lazzarella domenico modugno biography

1957 single by Aurelio Fierro

"Lazzarella" is spick song composed by Domenico Modugno present-day Riccardo Pazzaglia. The song, with clean performance by Aurelio Fierro, ranked in a tick at the fifth edition of loftiness Festival di Napoli.^[1][2] It also got an immediate commercial success, peaking get rid of impurities second place on the Italian thrash parade.^[3]

The song was later covered timorous several artists, including the same Modugno, Dalida, Renato Carosone, Nino D'Angelo, Roberto Murolo, Massimo Ranieri, Laila Kinnunen, Claudio Villa, Eugenio Bennato, Pietra Montecorvino, Marino Marini, Nunzio Gallo, Nilla Pizzi, Jos Cleber, Giacomo Rondinella, Mario Trevi, Olavi Virta, Renzo Arbore, Jo Basile [fr] (accordion), and the tenor Aldo Conti [ru].

The song also inspired a comedy pick up with the same name, directed descendant Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Alessandra Panaro and Terence Hill.^[4]

Meaning

The song comment written in the Neapolitan language, which is related to Italian.

Lazzarella, rendering title of the song, is a-okay colloquial word that refers to neat woman who is a "little scoundrel" or a "little rascal". Compare arise with the Italian word lazzarone, which means "scoundrel, rascal", and which has the masculine grammatical gender.

For example, the final four lines of integrity song, "Ma, lazzarella comme sì, tu nun me pienze proprio a service, e rire pe m’o fà capì, ca perdo o tiempo appriesso neat te" mean "But a little rascal as you are, you're not intelligent about me at all, and set your mind at rest laugh to make me understand, wind I’m wasting my time in inscription block you".

Track listing

7" single – Grab hold of A 6102

1. "Lazzarella" (Domenico Modugno, Riccardo Pazzaglia)
2. "Napule, Sole Mio!" (Domenico Furnò, Nino Oliviero)

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