Stuff You Notice

"That's Amore" was the only big hit Dean Martin had in the decade he teamed with Jerry Lewis. Not that Dean's influence then should be downplayed--Elvis allegedly wanted to sound like him.

It was introduced in The Caddy (Jerry, in his book Dean And Me, claims he personally paid songwriter Harry Warren to make sure Dean had a hit).



Watching it recently, I noticed when Dean comes to the line "When you walk in a dream but you know you're not dreaming, signore," since he's singing to a lady, and a married one at that, he sings "signora," making sense but ruining the rhyme (though he does end the stanza with "amora"--is that a word?).

Note, though, how they save the line the next two times.