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


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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]

It imparts its melody to a Bollywood song "Chahe Koi Kush Hojao" composed by S. D. Burman penned by Sahir Ludhianvi and sung by Kishore Kumar for the 1954 film Taxi Driver. [2] It was also adapted as the starting melody of the Hindi song "Aaja Sanam Madhur Chandni" composed by Shankar-Jaikishan for the 1956 Indian film Chori Chori.[3][4]

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  1. ^ "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me". Secondhand Songs.
  2. ^ "Original vs Copied bollywood songs". youtube.com.
  3. ^ "#LifeIsMusic: Popular Bollywood songs inspired by western music". DNA India. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
  4. ^ "16 Famous Bollywood Songs You Wouldn't Believe Were Copied From The West". IndiaTimes. 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2023-11-03.