Tarantella Napoletana Explained

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.^[1]

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.^[2] 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.^{[3] [4]}

See also

• Arabian riff, "The Streets of Cairo", "The Poor Little Country Maid", "the snake charmer song"
• Jarabe Tapatío, the "Mexican hat dance"
• Oriental riff, stereotypical pentatonic riff

Notes and References

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