Album: Dean Martin Sings (1953)

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• In Napoli where love is king
  When boy meets girl
  Here's what they say
  
  When the moon hits your eye
  Like a big pizza pie, that's amore
  When the world seems to shine
  Like you've had too much wine, that's amore
  
  Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling
  Ting-a-ling-a-ling and you'll sing, "Vita bella"
  Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay
  Tippy-tippy-tay like a gay tarantella
  
  When the stars make you drool
  Just like a pasta fasul, that's amore
  When you dance down the street
  With a cloud at your feet, you're in love
  
  When you walk down in a dream
  But you know, you're not dreaming, signore
  Scusami, but you see
  Back in old Napoli, that's amore
  
  When the moon hits your eye
  Like a big pizza pie, that's amore
  That's amore
  When the world seems to shine
  Like you've had too much wine, that's amore
  That's amore
  
  Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling
  Ting-a-ling-a-ling and you'll sing, "Vita bella" (Vita be-, vita bella)
  Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay
  Tippy-tippy-tay like a gay tarantella
  Lucky fella
  
  When the stars make you drool
  Just like a pasta fasul, that's amore
  That's amore
  When you dance down the street
  With a cloud at your feet, you're in love
  
  When you walk down in a dream
  But you know, you're not dreaming, signore
  Scusami, but you see
  Back in old Napoli, that's amore
  Amore, that's amore Writer/s: Harry Warren, Jack Brooks
  Publisher: MUSIC ADMIN, INC., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 11

• Richie from MassholeToni, I owe you an apology. I thought your question was one of the show off variety, and I googled your question to, ummmm... To, uhhh... Well, to shame you is the only reason I can come up with. What a jerk I am! I googled your question for almost 6 minutes straight and came up with nothing. I'm exhausted. Lol. I am sorry I pre-judged you, and I'll get to the bottom of this back up singer business.
• Toni from FloridaOne question - the backup singers, was that norma zimmer and her ensemble?
• Anna Rae from Turin, ItalyThe correct line is "when the stars make you drool just like pasta e fagiol
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1954 {January 10th} "That's Amore" by Dean Martin peaked at #2 {for 4 weeks} on Billboard's 'Best Selling Singles In Stores'* chart, for the four weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for those four weeks was "Oh, My Papa" by Eddie Fisher...
  And also at the time, "That's Amore" was at position #3 on the Billboard's 'Most-Played Records On Juke Boxes' chart and at position #4 on the Billboard's 'Most-Played Records By Disk Jockeys' chart...
  Between 1948 and 1969 the Steubenville, Ohio native had thirty-nine records on the Billboard charts, seven made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Memories Are Made of This" for 6 weeks in 1956 and "Everybody Loves Somebody" for 1 week in 1964...
  Two of his seven Top 10 records peaked right at #10, "Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile, Smile, Smile)" in 1949 and "I Will" in 1965...
  He just missed having an eighth Top 10 record when his "I'll Always Love You" peaked at #11 in 1950...
  Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, passed away at the age of 78 on Christmas Day of 1995...
  May he R.I.P.
  * And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, the remainder of the 'Best Selling Singles In Stores' Top 10 on January 10th, 1954:
  At #3. "Rags To Riches" by Tony Bennett
  #4. "Changing Partners" by Patti Page
  #5. "Stranger In Paradise" by the Four Aces
  #6. "Stranger In Paradise" by Tony Bennett
  #7. "Ricochet" by Teresa Brewer
  #8. "Secret Love" by Doris Day
  #9. "What It Was, Was Football (Parts 1 and II)" by Deacon Andy Griffith
  #10. "Heart of My Heart" by the Four Aces
• Carolyn from California, Central ValleyJust watched ''Moonstruck" with Cher and Dennis Quade on this Sunday afternoon. The movie ended with Dean Martin singing, Thats Amore. Great movie and great song.
• Cherilyn from Houston/beaumont TexasGreat song. I have the movie The Caddy. That song should have won the Oscar though. I like Secret Love when the song went gold Jerry gave Dean the gold record on the set of The Colgate Comedy Hour.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyThis song was nominated for Best Song at the 1953 Academy Awards!!! {The song that won was "Secret Love"}
• Alice Moyer from White Plains, NyMy Daddy taught me the words to this song when I was little in White Plains, New York where I grew up. We were at a Italian restaurant when it came on the jukebox and he kept putting quarters in and playing it over and over till he taught it to me. No one could sing it better than Daddy & Dean, Not even Jerry & Dean LOL!
  Alice Moyer, White Plains, NY
• Lalah from Wasilla, AkWe sing this at weddings, karoke bars and pubs. You can get the crowd at any football game to sing it and I once got half a bus to sing it. I've even sung it in church. And you can't help but smile when singing it. It's an American classic. We know it better than the words to our national anthem
• Larry from Coral Springs, FlVery romantic classic.
• Andy from Halesowen, West Midlands, United KingdomNice romantic classic. I would imagine many of us who have been "smitten" at one time or another can relate to it. Works just the same in Newcastle, New York, Nashville, Nurnberg, Nairobi or New Delhi as it does in Naples :))

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