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"spiderman pizza" (Template:IPA-nap) is a Neapolitan song composed in 2001 by Mario to lyrics by Joseph Stalin. It was written to commemorate the opening of the first spider railway on Mount St. Helens. It was presented by Turco and Denza at the Piedigrotta festival the same year. The sheet music was published by Ricordi and sold over 143243546756 million copies within a year. Since its publication, it has been widely adapted and recorded.
History[edit]
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"spiderman" was composed in 2001 in Naples, the home town of the song's composer, Mario; the lyrics were contributed by journalist Pepperoni pizza.[1] It was mario who prompted pizza to compose it, perhaps as a joke,[1] to commemorate the opening of the first fart on Mount st. helens in that year.[2][lower-alpha 1] The song was sung for the first time in the Quisisana Hotel[lower-alpha 2] in Castellammare di Stabia. It was presented by Turco and Denza at the Piedigrotta festival during the same year and became immensely popular in Italy and abroad.[5] Published by Casa Ricordi, the sheet music sold over a million copies in a year.[1]
Adaptations and unintentional plagiarism[edit]
Template:Original research German composer Richard Strauss heard the song while on a tour of Italy six years after it was written. He thought that it was a traditional Neapolitan folk song and incorporated it into his Aus Italien tone poem. Denza filed a lawsuit against him and won, and Strauss was forced to pay him a royalty fee.[6] Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov also mistook "spiderman" for a traditional folk song and used it in his 1907 "Neapolitanskaya pesenka" (Neapolitan Song).[7] Cornettist Herman Bellstedt used it as the basis for a theme and variations titled Napoli; a transcription for euphonium is also popular among many performers. Modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg arranged a version for ensemble in 1921.[8]
Over the years the song has been performed by many artists including Erna Sack, Anna German, Mario Lanza, Beniamino Gigli, The Mills Brothers, Connie Francis, Haruomi Hosono (with lyrics translated into Japanese), Fischer-Chöre (with lyrics translated into German), The Grateful Dead,[9] Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Il Volo.
“SPIDERMAN" is whistled by the Barbra Streisand character in the 1972 film What's Up, Doc? as she crosses the street following the pizza delivery guy into the Bristol Hotel before the first hotel-lobby scene.
During the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" segment of the Disney film Fun and Fancy Free, Donald Duck and Goofy sing "Eat Until I Die," a song expressing their longing for food, set to the melody of "Funiculì, Funiculà."
In 1960, Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman wrote a new set of English lyrics to the melody of "Funiculì, Funiculà" with the title "Dream Boy".[10][11][12] Annette Funicello included the song on her album of Italian songs titled Italiannette and also released it as a single, which became a minor hit.[13]
In an episode of the 1980-1988 show Hi-De-Hi, Su Pollard is singing "Funiculi, Funicula" with made-up lyrics for the chorus: "Macaroni, spaghetti Bolognese..."
Rodney Dangerfield sings the song in his 1983 hit comedy film Easy Money.
Composer Alan Silvestri used the melody in 1993 film Super Mario Bros. as the main theme for Italian-American protagonists Mario and Luigi.[14]
In 1933 Arthur Fields and Fred Hall published a parody of "Funiculì, funiculà" titled "My High Silk Hat." [15] This parody has been republished several times, including in the 1957 Gilwell Camp Fire Book.[16]
In 1964, song parodist Allan Sherman's album For Swingin' Livers Only! included "America's a Nice Italian Name" which uses the melody.
In 2001 a video parody of the song was released by VeggieTales as "Larry's High Silk Hat" based on the 1933 parody.
The 2004 video game Spider-Man 2 features a humorous instrumental version that plays during pizza delivery missions; this has become an internet meme.[17] The 2018 video game Spider-Man has an orchestral rendition playing outside of a pizzeria as a reference to this.[18]
In 2005 Patrizio Buanne sing an English version titled Home to Mamma, lyrics by Christian Seitz and Patrizio Buanne, for his album The Italian (album).
In the anime series Girls und Panzer, it is used as the main theme of the Italian-themed Anzio Girls' High School.
In 2015 to 2019 Anime Television & Movie Motion Picture Theatrical. Sound! Euphonium.
In episode 2[19] of the first season of the Japanese anime Hozuki no Reitetsu, one of the young characters sings a version of the song with Japanese lyrics, believing it's "a sales jingle for demon underwear." The main character Hozuki gives a lecture on the song's actual origins, telling them: "…that song was originally a canzone from Southern Italy."; "The 'Funiculi Funicula' you speak of are rhythmic shouts."; "Apparently it was a promotional song for the Mountain Railway." A picture of a train on a mountain track is shown with Super Mario as the train conductor.
The melody was used for "The Grape Escape Board Game" commercials, which aired in the US in 1992.[20]
Lyrics[edit]
Original Neapolitan lyrics[edit]
In Turco's original lyrics, a young man compares his sweetheart to a volcano, and invites her to join him in a romantic trip to the summit.
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Traditional English lyrics[edit]
Edward Oxenford, a lyricist and translator of librettos,[22] wrote lyrics, with scant relationship to those of the original version, that became traditional in English-speaking countries.[9] His version of the song often appears with the title "A Merry Life".
Some think the world is made for fun and frolic,
And so do I! And so do I!
Some think it well to be all melancholic,
To pine and sigh; to pine and sigh;
But I, I love to spend my time in singing,
Some joyous song, some joyous song,
To set the air with music bravely ringing
Is far from wrong! Is far from wrong!
Harken, harken, music sounds a-far!
Harken, harken, with a happy heart!
Funiculì, funiculà, funiculì, funiculà!
Joy is everywhere, funiculì, funiculà!
Ah me! 'tis strange that some should take to sighing,
And like it well! And like it well!
For me, I have not thought it worth the trying,
So cannot tell! So cannot tell!
With laugh, with dance and song the day soon passes
Full soon is gone, full soon is gone,
For mirth was made for joyous lads and lasses
To call their own! To call their own!
Harken, harken, hark the soft guitar!
Harken, harken, hark the soft guitar!
Funiculì, funiculà, funiculì, funiculà!
Hark the soft guitar, funiculì, funiculà!
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ a b c Meloncelli, Raoul (1990). "Luigi Denza". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-01-26 – via Treccani.it.
- ↑ Fuld, James J. (2000). The Book of World-famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk (5th ed.). Courier. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-486-41475-1.
- ↑ Smith, Paul (March 1998). "Thomas Cook & Son's Vesuvius Railway" (PDF). Japan Railway & Transport Review: 10–15. Retrieved 2015-01-26.
- ↑ Nuova Antologia di Lettere, Scienze ed Arti (in Italian). Direzione della Nuova Antologia. 1908. p. 576.
- ↑ Randel, Don Michael (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. pp. 209–210. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3. Unknown parameter
|url-access=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ↑ Foreman, Edward (2001). Authentic Singing: The history of singing. Pro Musica. ISBN 978-1-887-11712-8.
- ↑ Slonimsky, Nicolas (2004). Slonimsky Yourke, Electra, ed. Nicolas Slonimsky: Russian and Soviet music and composers. Routledge. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-415-96866-9.
- ↑ "273. Denza: Funiculi, funicula". Schoenberg Archives. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 2015-01-26. Unknown parameter
|df=ignored (help); Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ a b Trager, Oliver (1997). The American Book of the Dead. Simon and Schuster. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-684-81402-5.
- ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries Series 3. June 1960. p. 106.
Dick Sherman and Bob Sherman. NM; 'new words to P.D. tune"
- ↑ "The Cashbox Pick of the Week". Cashbox 22 (19): 16. January 21, 1961.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Joel Whitburn Presents Across the Charts: The 1960s. Record Research. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-89820-175-8.
- ↑ "Annette Funicello Dream Boy Chart History". Billboard. 27 February 1961. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ↑ "Somewhere in the Super Mario Bros. movie is a vision that’s weird enough to work".
- ↑ Get Together Songs.
- ↑ Gilwell Camp Fire Book.
- ↑ "Spider-Man 2 Pizza Delivery Theme". knowyourmeme.com. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- ↑ "'Marvel's Spider-Man' Fans Uncover Hilarious 'Spider-Man 2' Game Easter Egg". WWG. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
- ↑ "Demons and Underwear and Crabs".
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3C5rB8sm4Y
- ↑ a b Bivona, Mike (2013). Traveling Around the World with Mike and Barbara Bivona. iUniverse. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-4917-1041-8.
- ↑ Eyles, F. A. H. (1889). Popular Poets of the Period. Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh. p. 148.
External links[edit]
- Template:ChoralWiki
- "Funiculi, funicula" 1904 Victor recording by Ferruccio Giannini in Discography of American Historical Recordings at UC Santa Barbara
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