Beniamino Gigli-O sole mio

[nicklatinXXX]

il grande gigli!!!

[gustopheles]

He's pretty great, yeah. But why is he considered the greatest of his generation? Better than Merli or Bjorling?

[goodcatholicboy]

Gorgeous singing, but what is the name of this awful movie?

[MrMalcie]

@goodcatholicboy Film is called "Non ti scordar di me" (forget me not)

[lorenzofeltimo]

Grazie  fabtastico

[ShawDAMAN]

excellent and he was a pretty good actor.

[VictorStarita]

Grazie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[salvatoretrimarchi89]

Espectacular!

[MrMalcie]

No one can sing Neapolitan song like Gigli. Wouldn't be a bad idea if today's tenors spent some time listening to Gigli. I doubt we will hear another like him. Simply the greatest recorded tenor voice ever.

[79barkingspider]

@MrMalcie You could be right. I don't admire him as much as Corelli, but Gigli really could deliver Neapolitan songs.

[MrMalcie]

No one can sing Neapolitan song like Gigli. Wouldn't be a bad idea if today's tenors spent some time listening to Gigli. I doubt we will hear another like him. Simply the greatest recorded tenor voice ever.

[Frachecca2000]

nessuno batte LUCIANO PAVAROTTI...;-)

[fantorjhs]

Increible, yo pense que solo Pavarotti hacia estos altos.  INCREIBLE.

[THESPINTO]

@fantorjhs Deberias de escuchar el o solo mio con Franco Corelli en mi opinion es la mejor interpretación de esta pieza, ahi hay virilidad, brillo, sonoridad, todo lo que un hombre puede manifestar en sus interpretaciones...

[fantorjhs]

@THESPINTO gracias ya lo escuche y creo que es la version que se adaptaria a mi voz. Gracias de nuevo.

[Karen41872]

What does that woman on Gigli's right have on her corset? Looks like something is peeking out. I think the wardrobe people goofed on that one. That aside, Gigli is supreme!

[byDavide93]

Naples *-*

[tascmoc]

The text of this song was written by Neapolitan lyricist Eduardo Di Capua while visiting Russia. The grey Russian sky made him homesick for the sun of Italy. The Neapolitans, particularly during the 19th century, were perhaps the most prolific and original songwriters in Europe and they established much of the foundationas for the concept and development of commercial songwrting. I don't believe they need much help or influence from the French.

[badabingrockford]

42 seconds the girl had a orgasim

[Bartelseddy]

@badabingrockford Hey whatever works !

[wiseroldfart]

@badabingrockford: And nine months later she had an organism.

[31operafan]

:) What a voice! Gigli is very much like Jose Carreras when he puts his whole soul into everything he sings! I would be smiling as much as that lady who's watching him, if I saw him in person.

[operanovice11]

Hi, can anyone please tell me the name of this film? Thanks.

[31operafan]

@operanovice11 I think this is "Non Ti Scordar di Me". The lady who's watching Beniamino Gigli and smiling appeared in other clips from the same film, so I'm guessing that's what it is.

[Zawzagez11]

What kind of hat is Gigli wearing? Its Sicilian right?

[Vesuvius89]

@Zawzagez11

this song is sing from Naples language!

[Zawzagez11]

@Vesuvius89 I know its Naples, but those clothes and hat they wear are similar to Sicilian clothing. Yes i know they're close to each other

[puppylove82]

@Zawzagez11

It's napolitan wich takes a lot from french style, in fact Napoli was under french domination for long time

[ExtremaRatio92]

troppo bella di che anno è ??? =D

[indigosow]

best version I've heard!



[jgraif]

as much as i love gigli, his performance is so "heavy". listen to lanza sing this. the clarity of his voice is incomparable.

[paulostroff99]

Sounds as good today as when I reviewed it 4 years ago on you tube. TY.

[chansonetmoi]

von Eduardo Di Capua, Mailand 1898

[ilyenz]

Wunderbare Stimme............sehr gute Ton-und Bildqulität! dziękuję

[falchettoam]

Mamma !!!! Sto mi fa pianger.

[cairo501]

altijd als ik hem hoor lopen de tranen over mijn wangen erg mooi

[irina4447]

Красавец ! :Жиган- лимон !

[donniecatalano]

Proud to be of italian origins

[goldmundgoldmund1]

thanks.

[anasqq12]

what a voice! no limit.

[Bartelseddy]

Love it ,this is the best O Sole Mio,song by one of the best. B Gigli was one of the greatest ever ,Thanks for this great posting ,have been listening to this for a long time.

[roiblues]

si bravo ma pensavo fosse più potente

[66cecilia]

@roiblues non credo si possa dire questo:queste erano voci da sentire dal vivo e non in reg oltretutto coi mezzi dell'epoca.saluti

[roiblues]

si son d'accordo ma cmq la potenza vocale si sentirebbe lo stesso a prescindere dai mezzi che avevano oppure no...non voglio dire che non è bravo o che sia scarso ma da quello sentivo dire in giro pensavo a chissà quale potenza voale si prestasse gigli

[spydergoalie35]

Love itttt!

[jd1906sf]

It is remarkable just how many films Gigli made, so we are all able to see and hear him like this. What a great, great voice, what power and emotion. This is marvelous stuff.

[felongtw]

I "found" Gigli as a boy of 7-something on LP in my dad's old gram .... back in the "old" South Africa - this same song! My mom would ask if someone had died as I listened EVERY day after school for probably most of that year (and beyond). Sitting in Taiwan, this song still has the same attraction for me after so many years. Thanks for posting!

[leslie7007]

@felongtw  I was the same as you with Richard Tauber,a more delicate tenor but a great singer of love songs and of Mozart. Benjamino Gigli is also a great tenor with Rolls Royce power and yet sings so sweetly ! i think I once heard him sing a duet with the great Tito Gobbi.

[Maliiin93]

:D so cute

[Risperal3mg]

nobody matches he`s strenght

[MaxtheWise]

@Risperal3mg

I think there's one: Enrico Caruso :)

[mauriciomille]

@Risperal3mg but some slow in the begining isnt???

[444mariam]

*******5****

[inisk]

I prefer Gigli singing Italian love songs to anyone else, he is the best.

[Aetion]

Me too.

[laghimaghi]

Filmato eccezionale, grazie.

Che Italia, in quegli anni!

Oggi finita , sommersa dai maleducati, dal malaffare, dal rumore ovunque anche spacciato per musica, dalla disgregazione sociale, dal cattivo gusto, dall'onore ...al demerito, ecc.ecc.

Mi consola un passato che ha mostrato momenti grandi e alcuni uomini capaci.

[glaucodichio]

@laghimaghi era una Italia con ideali e con valori. oggi sono stati persi o al meglio bistrattati: è triste, molto triste, ma dopo la notte più buia sorge sempre il sole.

[laghimaghi]

@glaucodichio: dopo la notte sorge sempre il sole, è vero, ma per l'Italia di oggi vedo un declino se non irreversibile, ben lungo. Spero di sbagliarmi e che sia tutto migliore di come mi sembra!

[zickydreamer]

@laghimaghi e che ottimismo oh!

[aldogmail]

Soberbio.

[italianchappy]

potente

[Aetion]

This song must be from the film Non ti scordar di me (1936), with Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner, which was remade in 1958 with Ferruccio Tagliavini and Sabine Bethmann. The new title of the film was Vento di primavera.

However, Giglis voice is incomparable. Thanks for posting.

[ellicantropo]

Sino fuera por Carusso, hoy seria el Gran GIGLI

[herbgarratt]

Perfecto!

[VIPERLOU]

a voice for the ages listen to him and never forget Gigli was a gift from GOD

[juv7]

pavarotti was a bigger gift from god

[VIPERLOU]

yes by 100 lbs viperlou

[simmojag]

Fantastic , great projection and clarity !

[Protoplasym]

Vs. Caruso.... dunno. This mans' voice is a lil thicker to me.... and that last note is magnificent.....

Caruso hit the emotion better imo.... like he does with everything.

[FrancoMFT8]

Beautiful video.

Beniamino Gigli has a beautiful vocal, a great spinto and dramatic tenor.

Thanks to share it.

[semitar6]

He was largely responsible for bring opera to the masses. His secondary career as a film star exposed opera to a audience who would have rarely heard it otherwise.

[douchie336]

he's good.

[kunfusinger]

Good?; please he`s a genio!!!

[douchie336]

a genius is caruso for me. and chaliapin also.

like yasha heifetz and miliza korjus.

[mariasarda]

L'Italia canta !!!!!!!!

[AlterEgosRevenge]

L'avete notata la sua bocca?..

Socchiusa, ma emette alla perfezione qualsiasi nota lui voglia.

Non so se questo fa parte del suo periodo migliore o meno, ma indipendentemente da questo, dall'impegno della prestazione o dalla qualità non proprio ottima della registrazione, Gigli era un 'grande', uno dei più grandi davvero.

Mi chiedo come fanno le nuove generazioni a conferire la nomea di artista al primo che capiti.. quando (almeno tempo fa) di artisti ce ne son stati davvero.

[rafikcc]

Gigli, one of THE GREATEST. Graci for posting...

[girardje70]

beautiful voice

[michelesiddi]

A dir poco favoloso...

[acissej324]

i like the way the girl looks so enraptured and how she smiles as he's singing

[crazygeo81]

Now thats How you sing IT !! Wondeful GiGli

[noff27]

Amazing and great and beautiful and what a voice!!!!

[indigosow]

that is just beautiful.

[jwnyl]

excellent!

[elgrancaruso3]

I have films Gigli, Caruso, Mario Lanza, Joseph Schmidt, Jonh mc Cormack, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Mac donald.

Deanna Durbin, katryn Grayson, Alfredo Kraus, Maria del monaco, music audio and video of the greatest voices in the history of music, leaving interested write to me

[yunshanwanli]

Great singer, Great Gigli!

Thank you!

[emilio1794]

El NO Es Beniamino Gilgi Es Enrico Caruso !!!!

O No Lo Es???

Mi Abuelo Tiene CDS Grandes Y Negross Y El Me Dice Que La Opera De Aquellos Tiemposs Era Mejor....

El Caso Es Que Tiene El O SOLE MIO DE CARUSO Y SE ESCUCHA IGUAL QUE EN ESTE VIDEO

[triplete1]

la forma de cantar de Gigli es inconfundible.

Ademas su rostro...no hay dudas de que es el y no Caruso.

[music7714]

unbelievable beautiful

[LadyNurse]

sorry, I need to know the name of the actress to apper with Gigli in this video, someone know it? thanks!!

[scolas1]

It's Joan Gardner, an English actress from the 1930s. The DVD is called Gigli - Non Ti Scordar Di Me.

[kmillard]

Need a tiebreaker here... Someone else already identified her as Deanna Durbin!!

[scolas1]

It's definitely Joan Gardner. Deanna Durbin would have been too young in any case, only 15 when this film was made in 1936. Joan Gardner married this film's director Zoltan Korda.

[PiHexe]

Yeah. ito´s joan gardner. im sure.

[PiHexe]

how do you knwo so much of her?

[scolas1]

Just looked up details of the film on google, then googled her name. The film was called forget me not in english.

[in15ter]

...good very good ..gigli  number one

[szetene]

tanks for it . tears comes to my eye

i never heard better

[bilstew]

Old age comes to us all.( in reply to one of the commenters)How lovely and how touching his wonderful voice and how it silenced the noisy hooligans on the bus journey to Rome.."Memoirs"by the Maestro in his great auto biography...BILSTEW..IRELAND..­.

[Jextxadore]

What year was this?

[diomipoteviscagliar]

"Non ti scordar di me", 1935.

[KyotoMelody]

Thanks so much for this.

[paulostroff99]

The best rendition of all- on this lovely Italian classic song!

[paddy15]

gigli is the greatest tenor i have nearly all is recordings

[kmillard]

What's with the chick they keep cuting to?????

[Historiwa]

Certainly looks like a great bit of leg over. Unfortunatly now a little long in the tooth even if still alive.

[AsianSabon]

lol

[scolas1]

It's Joan Gardner, an English actress from the 1930s. The DVD is called Gigli - Non Ti Scordar Di Me.

[796824]

How fortunate to have had a student of Gigli's teacher ENRICO ROSATI as a Voice Teacher.This is the way a tenor should sound, not what is heard today. It was what Pavarotti admired.

[10Cnote]

Well said.

[796824]

Thank you

[gerdan100]

WOW!! Never heard this tenor before...Pavarotti said that his father thought he was the best...WOW, what power!

[Gille2416]

evry father says his child is the best..

[battile73]

im pres sio nan te: la pelle d'oca

[345murphy]

These clips of Gigli singing here are such a treasure.

To see him, and hear his wonderfull voice brings so

much pleaseure to us all. I can never get enough

of hearing Gigli sing. His voice was unique. I enjoyed also hearing his speaking voice in the interview 1946 in Uk.

[Erdrick345]

I've never heard a better rendition save Caruso. Bravo!!

[OyolaLuisAlberto]

Uno de los grandes

[justabrit]

I think i have heard the master of the tenors sing today..what a pleasure..I just keep coming back for more..cant help it *S*

[justabrit]

Wow now thats a hard act to follow..Bravo...

[siouxfalls2007]

grande grande grande

[GameTimeStarted]

amazing

[medre]

bravo !

[doveign]

the best one that i've heard so far!

[am1musica]

WONDERFUL:D