In Australia, the song charted regionally. 7 on Billboard 's Honor Roll of Hits, with Don Cornell and Nick Noble's versions listed as best sellers. Cash Box Top 50 Best Selling Records chart, in a tandem ranking of Don Cornell, Nick Noble, Kay Armen, and Roy Rogers & Dale Evans's versions, with Don Cornell and Nick Noble's versions marked as bestsellers. The word tiavanna is a malapropism for Tijuana.Ĭhart history Weekly charts Other words are in Italiese ( goombah, from cumpà, literally godson/godfather but more broadly fellow countryman, and 'jadrool' or ' cidrule', a stupid person, closely related to cetriolo, Italian for 'cucumber', but in Sicilian meaning jackass.

A number of Italian words are deliberately misspelled (' Giovanno' instead of ' Giovanni', and ' hello, che se dice' for 'hello, what's up?').

Neapolitan: paisà (in Italian paesano in English villager or fellow countryman).

Spanish: mambo, enchilada, rumba, (the Spanish words mambo and rumba are commonly used in Italian with the same meaning).Italian: italiano (Italian), Napoli (Naples), siciliano (Sicilian), calabrese (Calabrian), tarantella (tarantella), mozzarella (mozzarella), pizza, baccalà (salted codfish), bambino (child), vino (wine).The nonsense lyrics were originally couched in English, mixed together with a comic jumble of Italian, Spanish, Neapolitan and gibberish (invented) words, including: Although Clooney's own family background was Irish-American, she could perform such 'Italianized' material with an entirely convincing accent, which she had readily picked up from Italian-American musicians and their families. It is also a late example of an American novelty song in a tradition started during World War II by the Italian-American jazz singer Louis Prima, in which nonsense lyrics with an Italian-American sound are used in such a way as to present a stereotyped caricature of Italian-American people (who had been classed with ' enemy alien' status and discouraged from speaking Italian) as likable, slightly brash, pleasure-loving folk. Merrill's song provides an obvious parody of genuine mambo music, cashing in on the 1954 mambo craze in New York, while at the same time allowing Miller to set up a vehicle for Clooney's vocal talents. Alongside Merrill, 'Lidianni' and 'Gabba' are also listed as writers of the song, corresponding to the pseudonyms of the Italian lyricists Gian Carlo Testoni and Gaspare Abbate, respectively. Merrill reportedly wrote it under a recording deadline, scribbling hastily on a paper napkin in an Italian restaurant in New York City, and then using the wall pay-phone to dictate the melody, rhythm and lyrics to the studio pianist, under the aegis of the conductor Mitch Miller, who produced the original record. Writing and original Rosemary Clooney version 1 Writing and original Rosemary Clooney version.

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