@Genie:

1. Yes, a poster posted that on the other side of the Gaylords' "Little shoemaker" there was a song sung by them with lyrics in French - not Italian, but French... (see upthread). If this is so, it means that their interpolation elsewhere, of foreign-language lyrics other than Italian, their own ethnic language, would be along the lines of Rosemary Clooney's (and her music director)... Depending on the song and the interpolation, It would betoken sophistication, cosmopolitanism, the American melting pot and/or the rustic/rural/faraway/fairytale-distancing, etc. etc.

2. We are getting somewhere with Clooney's French! Monique got "dance in the meadow" and you have got something along the lies of "Sing, that I might learn to..." which DOES add an additional component to our interesting little tale... I wonder if the lovely girl is telling the shoemaker to sing, or onlookers, or what?

This is fun, though some might find it irritating...

Sanjay Sircar