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Dust jacket notes: A tarantella, sung in Neapolitan dialect.
Giuseppe Russo, unaccompanied vocals.
Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Pittsburg, California on March 11, 1939.
In Italian.
Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Giuseppe Russo performing Sicilian and Italian songs, some in Neapolitan dialect, at times accompanying himself on the piano, on March 11 and 29, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Pittsburg, California.
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{{Information |Description="Napoli e Bello e Stinco" ("Naples Is Lovely") |Source=Library of Congress' "California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties" collection |Date=March 11 and 29, 1939 |Author=Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell a