ROSEMARY CLOONEY - MAMBO ITALIANO

Thank you, my friend SGT (Join to see) for sharing the music video of Rosemary Clooney performing Mambo Italiano
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 -- June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville), which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" (a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati), "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House", though she would go on to success as a jazz vocalist.
Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1974, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002.
"Mambo Italiano" is a popular song written by Bob Merrill in 1954 and recorded by Rosemary Clooney. Merrill actually wrote it on deadline, scribbled hastily on a paper napkin in an Italian restaurant in New York, United States using the wall pay-phone to dictate the melody, rhythm and lyrics to the recording studio pianist, under the aegis of conductor Mitch Miller. The song became a hit for Rosemary, reaching #10 on the charts in the United States and number one in the UK Singles Chart early in 1955."

" Mambo Italiano"
Lyrics
"A girl went back to Napoli
Because she missed the scenery
The native dances and the charming songs
But wait a minute
Something's wrong

Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano!
Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano!
Go, go, go you mixed up siciliano
All you calabrese do the mambo like a crazy with a

Hey mambo, don't wanna tarantella
Hey mambo, no more the mozzarella
Hey mambo! Mambo italiano!
Try an enchilada with da fish a bacc a là and
Hey gumpà, I love a how you dance a rumba
But take some of advice paisano
Learn how to mambo
If you gonna be a square
You ain't a gonna go nowhere

Hey mambo! mambo italiano!
Hey mambo! mambo italiano!
Go, go,go, shake it like your Giovanna
Hello che si dice you getta happy in the feets
When you mambo italiano

Shake Baby shake cause I love a when you take me
Mama say you stop-a or I'm gonna tell your papa

Hey chadrule! You don't a have to go to school
Just make a-wid da beat bambino
It's a like vino
Kid you good a lookin' but you don't a know what's cookin' till you

Hey mambo, Mambo italiano
Hey mambo, Mambo italiano
Ho, ho, ho, you mixed up siciliano
It's a so delische ev'rybody come capisce
How to mambo italianoooooo!
'Ats nice!"

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Great music video share!

My parents loved her. Vaguely recall she had a tv show, or at least was on lots of the variety shows.