Today I got stuck in THE WORST traffic jam, but my car has 6 months of satellite radio so I was listening to Radio One playing its late Friday night dance mixes, and the DJ announced this to be the hit dance song of the summer, Yolanda Be Cool – We No Speak Americano:

Which is sampling from this song, Renato Carosone – Tu Vuò Fa’ L’Americano, from 1958 tratto dal film Toto’, Peppino e Le Fanatiche

And from that we found Tu vuo’ o’ talebano!

I love this song. Peter can barely understand it because it’s so slangy southern Italian.

And it all started with a Totò movie!

(When I brought the song up on YouTube baby, who’s not even 11 months old, holding onto the ottoman, started bopping back and forth. GENIUS.)

Date: Jun 11th, 2010 · Comments RSS · Tags: Entertainment