Since I woke up singing today, here is a musical post with ten Italian songs that speak to my soul.
But first, a lovely post by Smitha on her blog Eúnoia in which she shows the February page of my Calendar 2022 as she had it printed. It looks even better than I could imagine. Thank you most kindly, Smitha! You are right, friendships can be made across the distance. Click and read:
Maybe you don’t know that, but if I follow you by mail, I will listen to every single song that you post. I appreciate it when you play deejays and choose tunes for us, and the least I can do is give it a listen.
I hope you will enjoy my selection as well. (In case the video is not available in your country, I repeat the performer and the title in the caption and you can try to find the song in another way.)
My ten songs start with the one that I woke up singing today. I hummed it for a while before I remembered who the singer was. Then I googled it and found out that yesterday his tour was postponed since he has Covid-19. I wish Claudio Baglioni back to health soon. This is a song for his son.
Next my thought went to the great Franco Battiato who died last year. This is his cure of love.
Next, the grand Caruso. Yes, ti voglio bene assai. It was written by Lucio Dalla, also no longer among us. This is the official video that somehow begins with Duran Duran.
Here is another lovely love song. Luigi is saying that he is in love with you. Italians are soooo good with words.
I was reminded of this next one when I heard it recently in the trailer for the third season of L’amica geniale, “My Brilliant Friend”. I’ve seen three parts of it already. Big sigh. The writer Elena Ferrante, whose novels were made into this series, succeeded in something rather astonishing. It’s never easy to be a woman in Italy and now we know how much. Patty Pravo says: You spin me around as if I were a doll. And then you throw me to the ground.
The next one has Sadness only in the title.
A hop to Napule as the locals call Naples. Pino Daniele, who died in 2015, is an institution there. The title: “I am crazy”, in their crazy dialect. Haven’t been there yet.
We need more joy. These three are solo artists but for one album and tour got together and had heaps of fun singing each other’s songs. Niccolò Fabi, Max Gazzè and Daniele Silvestri, apri! Open up!
For almost the end, a more recent addition to the Italian song treasury. Hip hop. If you deny reality, it won’t go away. Who else feels that we live inside a box?
And finally, a special song. Have a look at the video in which various people (none of which is the singer who is also a novelist) lip-synch the poetic, angry lyrics. Lots of Italy in here. Sometimes I love it more. This is that time.

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I have to admit I love the Caruso. The trio is fun. Everything sounds more romantic in Italian. (K)
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True, K. I had loved Lucio Dalla and Caruso even before moving to Italy. Thanks for listening.
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The songs were a soundtrack for my writing this morning.
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Brilliant to hear this. 🙂
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Ah, the crazy dialect of Napoli….a constant background to my childhood and youth until my grandmother died. Both my mother’s parents were born in Italy.
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Thank you, Siena Blue, for coming over. 🙂 So you spent some time in Naples! Excellent! I have yet to visit. It seems quite a challenge of a place. Always welcome back!
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Oh no, I have never been there, my grandmother came to America as a young woman, and we lived next door to our grandparents here.
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Ahh, I see!
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I’m afraid yet again video unavailable for the majority ☹️
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Ahhh, sorry to hear this, Not Pam. Does it say “Not available in your country?” I wasn’t thinking of that. :p If you google the titles, you can find them on some other media, maybe? Do you use Spotify?
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I’ll Google them, but it does happen a lot 😟
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I added the caption to every video with the title and performer for easier search.
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Which is what I will do
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Some I enjoyed others not as much. Thanks for the variety. You must go to Napoli it is a crazy but wonderful place and just a train ride to Pompeii
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Thanks, bushboy, for giving them a listen. Just curious – how many of them were not available in your country, if any?
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All were available
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Thanks! Excellent!
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Most of the videos showed as being unavailable but I enjoyed your photos. Loved the window view of the mixers. 😊
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Thank you, Pepper! I added the performer and the title in the caption under each video for anybody who cannot see the video and would like to search for these songs in another way.
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Thank you. I will take a look. 😊
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Thank you for curating this fascinating collection! I particularly enjoyed the hip hop. Italian sounds good in all genres!
A few weeks ago, I accidentally found an Apple playlist of contemporary Italian pop. It’s lots of fun. *(Even though I can’t understand the lyrics, I like the energy!)
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Thank you, Carol Ann! I’m so glad that you gave them a listen. How surprising that you liked the hip hop the most! And you’re right, everything does sound better in Italian. And also true – energy travels even if you don’t know the language.
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My sons listened to hip-hop, especially when I drove them around as teenagers, so I have experience!
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Ha! Well done, sons!
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Pazzo and Caruso by Pavarotti.
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Thanks. I only knew Pavarotti’s version for a long time and was astonished to learn that Lucio Dalla wrote and sang it first.
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I shall listen to these later on this evening when I’m faffing. And I love the quote about patience. Turns out I can do that more and more!
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Great, Sunra Nina! I think it comes with ageing, this ability to choose understanding. I hope you got to listen to the songs and you liked them. One of these days I’ll tell you why “when I’m faffing” is not a good thing to say to a Slovenian. 😀
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Ha ha ha! Oh dear, I think I can guess. If it’s what I think it is, I’d say it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do with such music 😀 But confession time, I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet, but I will!
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