The Godfather Theme Song

The Godfather Theme Song

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\"Love Theme from The Godfather\" is an instrumental theme from the 1972 film The Godfather, composed by Nino Rota. The piece was lyricized in English by Larry Kusik into \"Speak Softly, Love\", a popular song released in 1972. The highest-charting rendition of either version was by vocalist Andy Williams, who took \"Speak Softly Love\" to number 34 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100[1] and number seven on its Easy Listening chart.[2]

Larry Kusik wrote the original, English lyrics, and Nino Rota wrote the music, that was used in Fortunella, a 1958 Italian film directed by Eduardo De Filippo with script by Federico Fellini.[3] Different sets of lyrics for the song were written in French (Parle plus bas), Italian (Parla più piano), Portuguese (Fale baixinho), Sicilian (Brucia la terra), and Spanish (Amor háblame dulcemente). Dalida sings the French version; the Sicilian version is sung by Anthony Corleone (Franc D'Ambrosio) in The Godfather Part III. It was first heard in America in 1969 on The Merv Griffin Show sung by Angela Bacari in English and Italian.

Rota's score for The Godfather had been nominated for a 1973 Academy Award for Best Original Score. However, it was disqualified from consideration when the academy learned Rota had used a more comedic version of the song for the film Fortunella (1958).[4] Nonetheless, Rota's score for The Godfather Part II won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Score, despite the fact that it contained the same piece.

The first version of the song to reach any of the charts in Billboard magazine was \"Love Theme from The Godfather\" by pianist Roger Williams. His instrumental recording debuted in the issue dated 1 April 1972, and \"bubbled under\" the Hot 100 for five weeks, peaking at number 116,[5] and another piano rendition by Ferrante and Teicher got as high as number 28 Easy Listening during its four-week chart run that began in the 8 April issue.[6] The version that the film's music director, Carlo Savina, and his orchestra recorded for the soundtrack first charted on the Hot 100 in the 22 April issue and made it to number 66 during a nine-week chart run.[7] It also reached number 24 on the Easy Listening chart during its three weeks there that began in the 20 May issue.[8]

The Andy Williams version of \"Speak Softly Love\" also made its first appearance in the 8 April issue and reached number 34 on the Hot 100 during its 11 weeks there[1] and number seven Easy Listening over the course of 12 weeks.[2] A recording of the song by Al Martino debuted on both of those charts in the 29 April issue and peaked at number 80 during its four weeks on the Hot 100[10] and number 24 on the Easy Listening chart, where it also spent four weeks.[11]

The Godfather is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released in 1972 by Paramount Records, and in 1991 on compact disc by MCA. Unless noted, the cues were composed by Nino Rota and conducted by Carlo Savina (who was credited on the LP, but not the CD). The song \"I Have but One Heart\" is sung by Al Martino, who performed it in the film as character Johnny Fontane.

Coppola hired Italian composer Nino Rota to create the underscore for the film, including the main theme, \"Speak Softly, Love\".[2][3][4] In October 1971, Coppola flew to Rome with a copy of the film to give Rota to view and create the score accordingly.[5] For the score, Rota was to relate to the situations and characters in the film.[2][3] Scott Cain of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution reacted to Rota's work with the movie's score by saying that regardless of how the movie turned out, \"it will be worthwhile just for Rota's contributions.\"[6] Rota synthesized new music for the film and took some parts from his 1958 Fortunella film score, in order to create an Italian feel and evoke the tragic film's themes.[7] Rota also based the piece Main Theme (The Godfather Waltz) off the opening melody of Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 1.[8] Paramount executive Evans found the score to be too \"highbrow\" and did not want to use it; however, it was used after Coppola managed to get Evans to agree.[2][3] Coppola believed that Rota's musical piece gave the film even more of an Italian feel.[3] Coppola's father, Carmine, created some additional music for the film,[9] particularly the music played by the band during the opening wedding scene.[3][7]

There are nine instances within the film where incidental music can be heard,[7] including C'è la luna mezzo mare and Cherubino's aria, Non so più cosa son from Le Nozze di Figaro. There was a soundtrack released for the film in 1972 in vinyl form by Paramount Records, on CD in 1991 by Geffen Records, and digitally by Geffen on August 18, 2005.[10] The album contains over 31 minutes of music coming from the film, with most being composed by Rota, along with a song from Coppola and one by Johnny Farrow and Marty Symes.[11][12][13] There were 29 recordings of Nino Rota's music on the market by April 1972, specifically the songs recorded were \"The Godfather Waltz\", \"Speak Softly Love,\" and \"Love Theme from The Godfather.\"[14][15][16] It was expected more recordings would be hitting the market as the year went on.[14][15][16]

Rota's score was also nominated for Grammy Award for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture or TV Special at the 15th Grammy Awards.[23][24] Rota was announced the winner of the category on March 3 at the Grammys' ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee.[23][24] Rota had received a nomination for the Best Original Score at the 45th Academy Awards.[25][26] Upon further review of Rota's love theme from The Godfather, the Academy found that Rota had used a similar score in Eduardo De Filippo's 1958 comedy Fortunella.[27][28][29] This led to re-balloting, where members of the music branch chose from six films: The Godfather and the five films that had been on the shortlist for best original dramatic score but did not get nominated. John Addison's score for Sleuth won this new vote, and thus replaced Rota's score on the official list of nominees.[30]

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In 1972, composer Nino Rota received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for his work on The Godfather, but it was subsequently revoked after it was revealed that part of the love theme had already been used in Rota's score for the 1958 Italian comedy film, Fortunatella.

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