Tarantella Napoletana

The "Tarantella Napoletana" is a tarantella song by Luigi Ricci, associated with Naples. It is familiar to North American viewers of popular media as a quintessentially Italian musical riff or melody.

The tarantella was adapted into the 1950 song "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me", written by Buddy Arnold and Milton Berle, and performed by Evelyn Knight and the Ray Charles Band.

It imparts its melody to another bollywood song "Chahe Koi Kush Hojao" composed by S. D. Burman penned by Sahir Ludhianvi and sung by Kishore Kumar for the Taxi Driver (1954 film) And was also adapted as the starting melody of the Hindi song "Aaja Sanam Madhur Chandni" composed by Shankar-Jaikishan for the 1956 Indian film Chori Chori.