Word: quirinetta
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...Bruno Quirinetta is an Italian Bing Crosby, Phil Harris and Spike Jones all rolled into one. Recording with his seven-piece Orchestra Quirinetta, he is one of Italy's biggest-selling popular artists. Wherever he plays at fashionable clubs in Rome, Milan, Florence or Rapallo, Italians surrender in droves to his particular brand of gaiety-an infectious mixture of nonsense and nostalgia...
...entertaining without straining his back in the bargain. During the war he had to give up his orchestra ("Italians were too depressed to enjoy cheerful dance music"), eked out a living by trading on the black market. But since then Bruno, who changed his name from Baldini to Quirinetta after making his first big hit in Rome's Quirinetta nightclub, has become roughly as popular as ravioli...
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