Perry Como & Caterina Valente Live - Santa Lucia

Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall. April 25, 1966. “Santa Lucia“ is a traditional Neapolitan song. It was transcribed by Teodoro Cottrau to Italian and published by the Cottrau firm, as a “barcarolla“, at Naples in 1849. Cottrau translated it from Neapolitan into Italian during the first stage of the Risorgimento, the first Neapolitan song to be given Italian lyrics. Its transcriber, who is very often credited as its composer.