Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2004/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Lilliebolero
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 22:48:26 -0400

At 04:22 PM 7/1/2004 -0700, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>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?

"Laroo, Laroo, Lillie Bolero" was a big hit song sometime in the late 40's
or early 50's, for reasons I personally cannot understand. Sinatra's was
one of MANY recordings. I know I have several versions on 78 rpm records,
but they are currently not available to me to check.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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