![]() ![]() In Turco's original lyrics, a young man compares his sweetheart to a volcano, and invites her to join him in a romantic trip to the summit. In 1964, song parodist Allan Sherman's album For Swingin' Livers Only! included "America's a Nice Italian Name" which uses the melody. This parody has been republished several times, including in the 1957 Gilwell Camp Fire Book. In 1933, Arthur Fields and Fred Hall published a parody of "Funiculì, funiculà" titled "My High Silk Hat". Modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg arranged a version for ensemble in 1921. Ĭornettist Herman Bellstedt used it as the basis for a theme and variations titled Napoli a transcription for euphonium is also popular among many performers. Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov also mistook "Funiculì, Funiculà" for a traditional folk song and used it in his 1907 " Neapolitanskaya pesenka" (Neapolitan Song). Denza filed a lawsuit against him and won, and Strauss was forced to pay him a royalty fee. He thought that it was a traditional Neapolitan folk song and incorporated it into his Aus Italien tone poem. German composer Richard Strauss heard the song while on a tour of Italy six years after it was written. Adaptations and unintentional plagiarism ![]() Annette Funicello included the song on her album of Italian songs titled Italiannette and also released it as a single, which became a minor hit. Sherman wrote a new set of English lyrics to the melody of "Funiculì, Funiculà" with the title "Dream Boy". Over the years the song has been performed by many artists including Erna Sack, Anna German, Mario Lanza, Beniamino Gigli, The Mills Brothers, Connie Francis, Haruomi Hosono (with lyrics translated into Japanese), Fischer-Chöre (with lyrics translated into German), The Grateful Dead, Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, Rodney Dangerfield, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Il Volo. Published by Casa Ricordi, the sheet music sold over a million copies in a year. It was presented by Turco and Denza at the Piedigrotta festival during the same year and became immensely popular in Italy and abroad. The song was sung for the first time in the Quisisana Hotel in Castellammare di Stabia. It was Turco who prompted Denza to compose it, perhaps as a joke, to commemorate the opening of the first funicular on Mount Vesuvius in that year. ![]() "Funiculì, Funiculà" was composed in 1880 in Castellammare di Stabia, the home town of the song's composer, Luigi Denza the lyrics were contributed by journalist Peppino Turco. The Mount Vesuvius funicular in the 19th century ![]()
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