That's Amore - Wikipedia
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| "That's Amore" | ||||
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| Single by Dean Martin | ||||
| from the album Dean Martin Sings | ||||
| B-side | "You're The Right One" | |||
| Released | November 7, 1953 | |||
| Recorded | August 13, 1953 at Capitol Studios, Hollywood | |||
| Genre | Traditional Pop | |||
| Length | 3:05 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Composer | Harry Warren | |||
| Lyricist | Jack Brooks | |||
| Dean Martin singles chronology | ||||
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"That's Amore" is a 1953 song by composer Harry Warren[1] and lyricist Jack Brooks,[1] and became a major hit and signature song for Dean Martin, who first recorded and released it that year. Amore (pronounced [aˈmoːre]) means "love" in Italian.
The song appears in the 1954 film Rear Window, the 1987 film Moonstruck, the 1995 film Grumpier Old Men, the 1999 film Stuart Little, the 2007 film Enchanted and the 2024 film The Garfield Movie, as well as the 1997 video game Mario Teaches Typing 2, and as the opening theme song in the first four seasons of the Australian comedy television series Pizza.
History
[edit]The song first appeared in the soundtrack of the Martin and Lewis comedy film The Caddy, released by Paramount Pictures on August 10, 1953.[2] Lewis commissioned Warren and Brooks to write songs for Martin to sing in the movie. According to Lewis, he personally paid them $30,000 secretly in the hope that one would be a hit for Martin.[3] In the film the song is performed mainly by Martin, with Lewis joining in and then the other characters in the scene follow. It received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song of that year, but it lost to "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane starring Doris Day.[1] In June 1995 the song was performed by the Greek singer Kostas Macedonas and Chorus.
The song remains closely identified with Dean Martin. That's Amore was used as the title for a 2001 video retrospective of Martin's career; and his son, Ricci Martin, titled his 2002 biography That's Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin.[4] As an iconic song, "That's Amore" remains a secondary signature song[5] for Dean Martin (second only to "Everybody Loves Somebody" of 1964).[5]
Music critic Joe Queenan has described the song as "A charming, if goofy, parody of popular Neapolitan organ-grinder music," and observed "That's Amore was one of many songs from the early Fifties that helped rehabilitate Italy's image as a land of magic and romance that had somehow been lured from its festive moorings by the glum fascist Benito Mussolini."[6]
Chart performance
[edit]The track that was used for the single released by Capitol Records was recorded on August 13, 1953, (Session 3098; Master 11694-6) at Capitol Records' studios at 5505 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, with the orchestra conducted by Dick Stabile. On November 7, 1953, Martin's record of the song, with "You're the Right One" (which was recorded at the same session as "That's Amore") on the flip side, peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard charts.
Certifications
[edit]| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| New Zealand (RMNZ)[7] | Gold | 15,000‡ |
| United States (RIAA)[8] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
| ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
References
[edit]- Lewis, Jerry; Kaplan, James (2005). Dean & Me (A Love Story). New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-7679-2086-4.
- Martin, Ricci (2002). That's Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin. Lanham, Maryland: Taylor Trade Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87833-272-4.
- Osborne, Robert (1994). 65 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards. London: Abbeville Press. ISBN 1-55859-715-8.
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c Osborne 1994, p. 131.
- ^ "Caddy, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) That's Amore". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on April 10, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
- ^ Lewis & Kaplan 2005, p. 163.
- ^ Martin 2002, p. 256.
- ^ a b "THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- DEAN MARTIN & JERRY LEWIS..", Cinema Laser, 2006, webpage: TheCinemaLaser-DMjlc.
- ^ Queenan, Joe (July 26, 2007). "When the moon hits your eye like a bigga pizza pie... :That's Amore! Joe Queenan investigates the origins of Dean Martin's cheesy hit". The Guardian. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
- ^ "New Zealand single certifications – Dean Martin – That's Amore". Radioscope. Retrieved December 15, 2024. Type That's Amore in the "Search:" field and press Enter.
- ^ "American single certifications – Dean Martin – That's Amore". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
Further reading
[edit]- Rotella, Mark (2010). Amore: The Story of Italian American Song. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-86547-698-1.
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