Happy Old Song: Tu vuò fà l'americano

I haven't post any song for my series "Happy Old Songs" this year. This first entry is a bit different, since I'm just going to do justice to one song: Tu vuò fà l'americano. Right now, a cover of this song, We No Speak Americano by a band called Yolanda Be Cool is everywhere, even in adds with audio in lots of websites. Probably most people dancing to this techno cover doesn't know that the tune is actually 54 years old!

1956. Renato Carosone and Nicola Salerno write this song. It's about the Americanization of an Italian guy:

TRANSLATION (source):

You wear trousers with a patch at the back

A small cap with the peak up

You walk making boaster for Tuleto

Like a bully to make watched you

You want to be American

American, American

Who makes you do that

You want to follow the fashion

But if you drink whisky and soda

You don't seem to be disturbed.

You dance rock'n'roll

You play baseball

But the money to buy Camel cigarettes

Who gives them to you?

Your mother's purse!

You want to be American

American, American

But you were born in Italy

Hear me out

You've got nothing to do with it

Ok, Napolitan

You want to be American

You want to be American!

How can the one who loves you understand you

If you speak half American?

When you make love under the moon

What will you say? "I love you"?

(repeat)

1960. Sophia Loren sings it (twice) in the movie It Started in Naples (Melville Shavelson), also starring Clark Gable (I have to check this film).





2007. The Puppini Sisters, one of my favorites retro bands cover this song. There are many other versions, but this one is my favorite. Here's it live:



2010. Australian band Yolanda Be Cool releases We No Speak Americano, which becomes #1 in many countries.

Which one is your favorite?

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Classic stars references in modern films #1: S1mone (2002)

The other day, when I was writing about the rumor of classic actors "acting" in new movies, I mentioned the film S1mone (2002). Critics didn't like it very much, but I found it really interesting. Anyway, I *think* that I'll be doing a new series of posts which cleverly I'm gonna name: Classic stars references in modern films (is that grammatically correct?). I know there are a lot and I'll try to post one scene once in a while. Here's the first, in which Al Pacino is teaching his computer generated actress tricks of the "old guard":

Cool, uh?