Tarantella Napoletana

Not to be confused with La Danza, also known as Tarantella Napoletana.

The "Tarantella Napoletana" is a tarantella song that concludes the opera La festa di Piedigrotta by Luigi Ricci, associated with Naples. It is familiar to North American viewers of popular media as a quintessentially Italian musical riff or melody.

The tarantella was adapted into the 1950 song "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me", written by Buddy Arnold and Milton Berle, and performed by Evelyn Knight and the Ray Charles Band. ^[1]

See also

• Arabian riff, "The Streets of Cairo", "The Poor Little Country Maid", "the snake charmer song"
• Jarabe Tapatío, the "Mexican hat dance"
• Oriental riff, stereotypical pentatonic riff

References

1. "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me". Secondhand Songs.