Some great songs and interesting info Timeea, Read more. She had six top ten Singles Chart's songs, including the topper "Roma-Bangkok" with Giusy Ferreri, and two number two songs "Voglio ballare con te" and "Da zero a cento". Quite a drastic measure, but Italian music artists have written and recorded so many great songs that it seems a shame that just a few get so much attention. Alessandro, I compiled this list based on many factors: sales info from labels, research, the popularity charts around the WORLD (not only Italy), the internet etc. Italian music provides beautiful context for a beautiful language, and today, we’re going to be talking about easy Italian songs. And thank heavens that there’s no shortage of easy Italian songs to choose from. So if you decide to give this song a go and actually sing it, don’t forget to move around and gesture away. There’s something magical about this place. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); In Italy, the older, traditional filastrocche (nursery rhymes) and songs for children are an endangered species; many of them are not in "official" Italian (which is based on the dialects of Tuscany), but in one of the regional dialects. Personally my favourite is Matia Bazar – Vacanze romane – 1983 I live among Italians and at least 50 of them have been interviewed before posting this list. Access a complete interactive transcript of every video under the Dialogue tab, and review words and phrases with convenient audio clips under Vocab. This is a very famous song by Mia MArtini put in the chart this ^^, http://www.youtube.com/user/sandrodream1?feature=mhee. (You’ve probably heard the melody to this one, but maybe with different lyrics. Copyright ©2020 by Lisa Yannucci. San Remo probably 1960 to 65? And because of its ubiquitous tune and some well-placed repetition of lines, like the one above, you can very easily commit this song’s lyrics to memory. All rights reserved. It’s the equivalent of the English playground song “Ring Around the Rosie,” which many speculate to be a song about the Black Plague. Mara Sattei & Coez. Tito Rodríguez, a prominent Puerto Rican arranger, composer and singer of the mambo era, recorded the very popular mambo version of this song, Cuando, cuando, cuando. This song is about the Baby Jesus leaving glory and descending into a simple and poor existence (one without the warmth of fire on a cold winter’s night). Ages: 0-8, Am I small? She has translated many traditional nursery rhymes from English into Italian. 7 Easy Italian Songs to Capture a Language Learner’s Heart 1) ... “Tu scendi dalle stelle” is the equivalent in Italy. (In the Morning, I Don't Eat because I Think of You), (There in the Woods There's a Little House), (I Love You because You're Sweet like a Cream Puff). It’s replete with sentence structures, phrases, connectives and conjunctions that you can borrow to add nuance and richness to your Italian conversations. Savona, M.L. Senza una donna was the smash hit of Blue’s and was recorded again as a duet in 1991 with Paul Young. The song’s most notable English rendition was recorded by Engelbert Humperdinck under the title Tell Me When. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8llR78QufIU, Indeed! Songs have a melody, rhythm and rhymes that always beat memorizing a dry list of words from a sheet of paper.