"Volare," Bobby Rydell (1960)
A swingin' update to an Italian blockbuster
Peak: #4 on the Hot 100
Streams: 3.6 million
Over on Mark and Sarah Talk About Songs, the podcast I host with Sarah D. Bunting, we’re in the midst of a Record the Year Showdown. That’s a tournament to determine the all-time greatest Grammy winner for Record of the Year, and the very first song we talk about is “Volare” by Domenico Modugno. It won both Rec…