http://www.songsofitaly.com Classic Italian American Favorites From The Mid-20th Century Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:00:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fast Talk Italian (Audio Guide)Fast Talk Audio French is a pocket-sized phrasebook and CD companion, packed with key phrases for short trips. Read, listen and make this your best break yet with this essential language guide for short trips. http://www.songsofitaly.com/2008/08/21/fast-talk-italian-audio-guide/ Welcome to Songs Of Italy Internet Radio where you will hear classic Italian-American favorites from the mid-20th century including artists such as Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Connie Francis, Louis Prima, Lou Monte, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Darin, Tony Bennett, Sophia Loren plus many others. http://www.songsofitaly.com/2008/07/05/welcome/ One of the prototypical Italian-American crooners, Vic Damone parlayed a smooth, mellow baritone into big-time pop stardom during the '40s and '50s. Early in his career, his inflection and phrasing were clearly indebted to Frank Sinatra, who once famously called him "the best set of pipes in the business." Overall, ... http://www.songsofitaly.com/2008/06/10/vic-damone/ Tony Bennett is an artist who moves the hearts and touches the souls of audiences. He's the singer's singer and has received high praise from his colleagues through the years, including Frank Sinatra who stated unequivocally, "Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business." He is an international treasure ... http://www.songsofitaly.com/2008/06/10/tony-bennett/ The so-called Rat Pack wasn't a group in the normal sense, but consisted of a loose confederation of actors, comedians, and singers lumped together by the media under that name in the early '60s. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford formed the core of ... http://www.songsofitaly.com/2008/06/10/the-rat-pack/ The Hilltoppers, had a very inauspicious beginning. They began as a vocal trio with the members being Jimmy Sacca, Seymour Spiegelman, and Donald McGuire who were students at Western Kentucky University in the town of Bowling Green. One of Sacca's acquaintances was a pianist in a territory band in the ... http://www.songsofitaly.com/2008/06/10/the-hilltoppers/ Back in the late 1940s in the east side of Detroit, Michigan, three young neighborhood teenagers met and discussed their love of music and their own dreams of someday becoming part of that profession. They got together through their association with a CYO youth group at Our Lady of Sorrows ... http://www.songsofitaly.com/2008/06/10/the-gaylords/ (born September 20, 1934, Rome, Italy) Italian film actress who rose above her poverty-stricken origins in postwar Naples to become universally recognized as one of Italy's most beautiful women and its most famous movie star. Before working in the cinema, Sofia Scicolone changed her name to Sofia Lazzaro for work in ... http://www.songsofitaly.com/2008/06/04/sophia-loren/ Italo-American singer Sergio Franchi was much more than an entertainer; yet it was as an entertainer that he was known to the wide public, with a voice that was equal to Mario Lanza in beauty and phrasing. Amercian show business got hold of him, but Franchi had years of classical ... http://www.songsofitaly.com/2008/06/04/sergio-franchi/ Born May 23, 1928, in Maysville, Kentucky. The distinctively unpretentious, deep, rich, and smooth voice of Rosemary Clooney earned her recognition as one of America's premiere pop and jazz singers. According to Clooney's record company press biography, Life magazine, in a tribute to America's "girl singers" named her one of ... http://www.songsofitaly.com/2008/06/04/rosemary-clooney/