Talk:Mambo Italiano (song)

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Article lacks references. Also, the statement that the most famous recorded version is by a Tyler Tinsey is a plug by a user--the two famous recordings are Rosemary Clooney and Dean Martin —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stanz61 (talk • contribs) 05:35, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Mambo?

Is it me or is this song not at all suitable for dancing mambo? PizzaMan (talk) 16:59, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

A valid point. No, it's not just you PizzaMan, and I hope this now emerges somewhat at least in the lead. 31.50.193.233 (talk) 09:44, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Lead...

I'm aware that the current 'lead' has now quite outgrown WP:LEAD guidelines, and that the page needs restructuring. I hope to get there sometime soon... 31.50.193.233 (talk) 13:17, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Lady Gaga's song Americano

Mention of sampling of [Rosemary Clooney's recording] of the first verse of Mambo Italiano in Lady Gaga's song Americano has been on the present page since 2014. When I expanded the content/sourcing of the page in 2017 (under a different IP address [1] [2]) I did not get around to sourcing this claim, although at the time it seemed to me (as still does) wholly plausible, and since then further plausible detail was added by another editor (Special:Contributions/Nelatti @User:Nelatti), though without sourcing it. At least one potential reliable source for this content exists, though I accept that a decision on what content should be retained/trimmed on this matter may require some discussion. 109.145.91.130 (talk) 15:18, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

• Given that I believe the apparent referencing of the song by Lady Gaga further illustrates the enduring widespread resonance of this culturally intriguing novelty song from the fifties, I am adding back in a rather briefer mention, reworded per the above-mentioned source: The Mambo Italiano tune features at the start of Lady Gaga's 2011 song Americano.

Marill, Lidianni, Gabba

Per it:Mambo Italiano (permalink), the Italian in the lyrics was the work of Gian Carlo Testoni (under the pseudonym 'Lidianni') and Gaspare Gabriele Abbate ('Gabba'). That convincingly explains how Merrill was able to juggle the Italianate lexical humour. So far, about the closest I've come to identifying even a partial RS for this (assuming SecondHandSongs.com [3] doesn't qualify) is at the end of Scuderi (2010), where, in a list of Renato Carosone songs, Mambo Italiano is listed as being "by Marill, Lidianni, and Gabba" (Lidianni and Gabba being known pseudonyms [4] [5]).

So no signed napkin, so to speak... But if some Joe wanna mixing up a mozzarella an do a bac a lab – hey mambo! – it could be so delish, 'ats nice. 109.145.91.130 (talk) 10:18, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

• (Now drafted here - not ideal, I know :) 109.145.91.130 (talk) 15:29, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Tijuana?

Article mentions "The word tiavanna is a malapropism for Tijuana." Where in the song is this? Is this just some irrelevant trivia unrelated to song lyrics? ~~ Crazytonyi (talk) 01:42, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Some notes

Hello, while writing a corresponding article for the German Wikipedia (de:WP), I noticed a few things that I would like to point out to the authors:
1. Gabba and Lidianni wrote the Italian version for Carla Boni, possibly also for Renato Carosone (I couldn't clarify). The English version was only written by Bob Merrill.
2 ‘pizza’ and ‘tiavanna’ do not appear in the song.
3. on the pages linked in notes 7 and 8 I could not find the song.
4. the version by Shaft is clearly over-represented (doesn't do the song justice). IP 60.227.86.137 probably wanted to place an advert here in 2023. This is also supported by the use of the cover (image rights unclear). Whether a separate article would fulfil the relevance criteria is questionable, perhaps at most an integration in Shaft (British electronic duo).
I will not change this myself. Just a well-intentioned hint. Greetings --Artessa (talk) 09:26, 16 October 2024 (UTC)