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Thread #118074   Message #2549869
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
26-Jan-09 - 09:44 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Oh Marie (Eduardo di Capua, Louis Prima)
Subject: Lyr. Add: Maria Mari
Lyr. Add: MARIA MARI
Lyrics by Vincenzo Russo, music by Eduardo di Capua, c. 1899

A rapete fenestra
Fam m'afficia Maria
Ca strong mie-z'a via
Sperato p'a vede

Nun trove n'o rae pace
Anot-t'a faccio journo
Sempe staccaatuorno
Spe ranno c'ce par la

Oh Mari, oh Mari
Quanta suon-no, che perso pete
Fam m'addurmi
Una nocha abbracciato cuté
Oh Mari, oh Mari
Quanta suan-no che perso pete
Fam m'addurmi
Oh Mari, oh Mari

Nun trove n'o rae pace, etc.

Oh Mari, oh Mari
Quanta suon-no, che perso pete, etc.

Oh Mari, etc. (repeat)

Needs to be checked against sheet music.

Maria Mari

The 'three tenors' (Domingo, Pavrotti, Carreras) sang it on one of their cds, but Alfredo Kraus does it more formally.
I think the Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli made it popular in the 1920s. I remember the old recording my grandparents had.