Dean Martin – That’s Amore
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1965. A great song to start the week.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
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This song was played during the opening, and throughout the 1987 movie Moonstruck. I liked the movie. A good cast and a silly plot. And not one homosexual or transsexual character.
When you’re down by the sea
And a fish bites your knee.
That’s a Moray
See the thing in the reef
With big shiny teeth
That’s a Moray
Put your hand in the crack,
You won’t get it back
That’s a Moray
When your King Kong goes flat, rent the flic Vampire Bat, that’s some more Wray
Dean Martin lived in a time when there were several excellent singers and plenty of fabulous songs to sing. Why don’t we have such singers and songs these days?
A New Zealand man, with a permanent tan, that’s a Maori.
A pain in your eye
with a stooge standing by
that’s a Moe ray
So, it seems we have the lyricists and Dean Martin’s tune and sense of humor.
Now we need the contemporary singer.
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When the Moon hits your eye
like a big piece of pie
that’sa more, Ray
The ice cream, it’sa cold
but the pie’s à la mode
that’s some more, Ray