Pecché?

Pecché? is a 1913 Neapolitan song by Gaetano Enrico Pennino to lyrics by Carlo De Flavis. The song was a standard of Enrico Caruso and Luciano Pavarotti, and even known in a Soviet version.[1]

The first verse reads:

Canta ll'auciello dint' 'a casa antica
Addò primma cantave pure tu.
E sento pur' 'a voce 'e 'n'ata amica
Ca mme cunziglia 'e nun te penzà cchiù!

Then follows the refrain which gives the name to song: Carmela, if I've left my mamma because of you, if you have lost your early youth, then Why don't you come back to me?

References

  1. ↑ The Record Collector: A Magazine for Collectors of Recorded Vocal Art 2004 "Pennino, Gaetano Errico (18??-19??) Why? (Pecche) (Pochemu?) (G. De Flavis, translated by B. Abramovich) instrumental ensemble directed by Anatoly Tsadikovsky. rec. 1976-80 (All-Union Radio) LP: Melodiya 10-15017-18 (1981) (stereo) ..."

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