The "Tarantella Napoletana" is the tarantella associated with Naples. It is familiar to North American viewers of popular media as a quintessentially Italian musical riff or melody.
Examples of its use include Gioachino Rossini's "La Danza" from Soirées Musicales (1830–1835).[1]
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.[2]
It was also adapted as the starting melody of the Hindi song "Aaja Sanam Madhur Chandni" composed by Shankar-Jaikishan for the film 1965 Indian film Chori Chori.[3][4]
