Quote Originally Posted by asiafever View Post
Know the scene well but that is the first I knew about the background of the song. That is brilliant trivia.
Quote Originally Posted by Riff888 View Post
I didn't know that either, I'm going to look it up now.

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I'm not usually this nerdy or obsessive but you two sound like you are genuinely interested so I'll post a few links.

Here is the scene in Goodfellas with the song playing in the background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpmtMyr6orE

Scorsese must love this song because here is a ad for Dolce & Gabbana directed by Scorsese with the song and Scarlett Johansson and Matthew McConaughey both looking very elegant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHCWvMt5VCA

And here is Mike Patton lead singer of Faith No More who covered this song on his album of Italian 60s pop covers Mondo Cane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR-oFx4SIlA

And finally here is a quote from the Wikipedia entry for the song where the songwriter Gino Paoli explains it:
Paoli explained that the song was inspired by the one-night relationship with a prostitute: "I wanted to describe the moment in which you are in a bed with a woman, you just had sex, and in the air you feel a sort of magic, which you don't know where it comes from and which immediately vanishes. In that moment you understand that you are nobody, but there's the whole world in your soul. Obviously I could not put in the lyrics the central moment of the story, the sex act. And I started to go around in circles, talking about the rumours in the street, the walls... a spiral path in which the unsaid triumphs" Wow! That is so Zen and so intense at the same time, Those bloody Italians take their sex seriously. LOL!