禁歌 MAMBO ITALIANO

Mambo Italiano

Bob Merrill 於1954 年把一首意大利傳統民歌改編及發表, (作曲作詞人已不可考)
給多位當時的紅歌星錄成唱片, 包括 Rosemary Clooney ( 1954),
Dean Martin(1955)Bette Midler
1960 電影It Started in Naples (忘記了中文名) 中 Sophia Lore蘇菲亞羅蘭 用 Mambo Italiano跳了一埸舞。


本來一首熱情輕鬆的歌曲, 只會把歡樂帶給大眾,
但因當年美國還是非常保守, 一些上流社會人士,
認為曲詞中包含了幾句非正統的英文,
是"低級趣味或不莊重", 向電台施壓,
於是此曲1954年被部份電台禁播了一段時期。

ROSEMARY CLOONEY - MAMBO ITALIANO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzUfmh3G9AE&feature=related

Dean Martin & Rosemary Clooney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Ydpb8W_GM&feature=related

Mambo Italiano - Sophia Loren
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oT1Ql_J00E


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 sicialiano
All you calabraise-a do the mambo like a crazy with a Hey mambo,
don't wanna tarantella Hey mambo,
no more a mozzarella Hey mambo! Mambo italiano!
Try an enchilada with da fish a bac a lab and then a Hey goombah,
I love a how you dance a rhumbah
But take a some 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, Joe, shake like a Giovanno Hello kess-a-deetch-a
you getta happy in the feets a
When you mambo italiano
Shake-a Baby shake-a cause i love a when you take a me
Mama say "stop-a or I'm gonna go to papa"
And a hey ja drool you don't a have to go to school Just make-a wid da beat bambino
It's a like a 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 delish a ev'rybody come copisha
How to mambo italianoooooo! 'Ats nice! UNH!

The ABC network bans the Rosemary Clooney hit "Mambo Italiano," saying it did not meet the network's "standards for good taste."