Klarinet Archive - Posting 000028.txt from 2004/07

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Lilliebolero
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 19:23:03 -0400

Since a few listers live (or have lived) in Italy:

There's a song named "Lilliebolero", and it has a history because (I
think) one part of the UK adopted it as their 'national song' years ago
in defiance of another part of the UK. I think the BBC was involved in
this somehow.

Today I heard Frank Sinatra on a "Favorites" type of CD singing a song
whose title was "Lillie Bolero", but the CD liner didn't provide any
commentary. Sinatra's lyrics suggested that "Lillie" lived in Napoli
and that she drank wine with her lover in a secluded, dimly lit, Italian
restaurant.

Sinatra played games with almost every melody and lyric that he sang, of
course, but I believe that I recognize the tune nonetheless. It
stirred my curioisty: Does anyone here know of a person, place or thing
in Italy that suggests the phrase "Lillie Bolero"? Or the 'story', if
any, behind why Sinatra borrowed the melody?

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