Lou Monte - Italian Jingle Bells download song

I loved Lou Monte as a kid! Only had one of his records, I played the heck out of it.

My family came from Naples. This is so comforting to listen to.

A friend of mine from Italy gave me the lyrics. I do speak a good amount of standard Italian though. :)

But you know I have noticed having lived in Philadelphia. All the Italian Americans use this cutting off words technique to try to connect to their roots, and as much as I love the attempt, I feel it falls short. Some friends from Naples may not get this or some might. The dialect if you will that I associate most is Lucano. I am not trying to be rude when I talk about this but it is an observation and conversations with the old Italians (the ones from the years of lead in Italy)

This is rather "Neapolitan" Jingle Bells, not Italian - this is as Italian as maybe Swedish would be English. I understand maybe 4 words of what he sings.

jim DePesquale.. great job on the napoletane dialect.. do you actually speak it, or did you get it from somewhere? it's a dying dialect here in the states...

My city is so Italian, the grocery stores play this in December.

Uhh... I'm italian, but this is not standard italian, it's dialect from Napoli. I have problems to understand what he says...