VOLUME 19 (The Italian Crooners)

ITALIAN MUSIC HISTORY, from 1945 onwards, Italian popular music’s history got inextricably intertwined with American and English ones. But it didn’t forget completely his musical heritage. Opera and classical regional music, namely the Neapolitan Song, which represented the tradition of melody and bel canto (beautiful singing), still had a very strong impact on Italian popular music of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Italians wanted to sing, dance, and have fun. And they wanted to do it at the rhythm of the musical trends from across the Atlantic Ocean.