Tino Rossi - Ecoutez les mandolines, 1937

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Tino Rossi with Orchestra -- Ecoutez les mandolines (Listen To The Mandolines) Fox-trot chanté from 1937 French musical drama "Naples au baiser de feu" (Musique: Vincent Scotto, Paroles: J.Rodor, G.Koger, L.Audiffred) Columbia 1937 (UK pressing)

NOTE: "Naples au baiser de feu" (Naples Kissed by the Fire) was a French movie released in Europe under tiitle: The Kiss of Fire. It was made in France by veteran Italian director Augusto Genina. Tino Rossi plays Mario, a Neapolitan cabaret singer who is tired of his life and hopes to settle down into a domestic existence with Assunta (Mirielle Balin) his boss' daughter. All of this changes when Mario falls in love with Lolita (Vivian Romance), the girlfriend of his roommate Michael (Michel Simon).

Music was composed by a distinguished French composer, Vincent Scotto author of "La Petite Tonkinoise" (performed by Josephine Baker in Casino de Paris), Vieni Vieni (performed in 1937 by many of the top singers in the world, including Erna Sack, Tino Rossi, Joseph Schmidt or Rudy Vallee) or "Sous les ponts de Paris" (Under The Bridges of Paris) -- which was one of the greatest international hits ever composed, made famous by such interpreteurs as Lucienne Delyle, Eartha Kitt or Dean Martin.