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Nicola Paone advertising jingle
Feb. 22nd, 2018 10:25 pmWe heard this a bazillion times on WQXR in the 80s and 90s and had a wonderful meal at Nicola Paone's restaurant in the late 90s.
I have trouble remembering the jingle and I've spent a frustrating couple of hours trying to reconstruct it. I know I've done this before but I don't know where I filed the doc.
Nicola Paone was a Sicilian-American popular singer, born in Pennsylvania but brought up in Italy until he moved to Brooklyn to pursue his dream of being an opera singer. Instead, he became very popular in the 1930s-1950s for his Italian-American immigrant songs. Later he became a restaurateur; his eponymous restaurant was among William Buckley's favorites and was generally highly regarded. When I took a client there for dinner after seeing M. Butterfly in my high-flying advertising executive days, Paone turned our dinner into a piece of performance art with, if I recall correctly, a total of nine courses.
Messy, this is, with some things probably not spelled correctly, but I'll try to correct it later.
Fettucine, scallopini,
Braccialetti, cotoletti,
Manicotti, canneloni,
Gambaretti, gambaroni
Osso bucco baci baci
Tritoni con spinaci
Pesce fresce delizioso
Antipasti grandioso
889-3239 -- 889-3239
Nicola Paone died in 2003. There is still a listing for his restaurant on Google -- I grabbed this screencap this evening. I was pleased to notice that after twenty years I still remembered the phone number.
I have trouble remembering the jingle and I've spent a frustrating couple of hours trying to reconstruct it. I know I've done this before but I don't know where I filed the doc.
Nicola Paone was a Sicilian-American popular singer, born in Pennsylvania but brought up in Italy until he moved to Brooklyn to pursue his dream of being an opera singer. Instead, he became very popular in the 1930s-1950s for his Italian-American immigrant songs. Later he became a restaurateur; his eponymous restaurant was among William Buckley's favorites and was generally highly regarded. When I took a client there for dinner after seeing M. Butterfly in my high-flying advertising executive days, Paone turned our dinner into a piece of performance art with, if I recall correctly, a total of nine courses.
Messy, this is, with some things probably not spelled correctly, but I'll try to correct it later.
Fettucine, scallopini,
Braccialetti, cotoletti,
Manicotti, canneloni,
Gambaretti, gambaroni
Osso bucco baci baci
Tritoni con spinaci
Pesce fresce delizioso
Antipasti grandioso
889-3239 -- 889-3239
Nicola Paone died in 2003. There is still a listing for his restaurant on Google -- I grabbed this screencap this evening. I was pleased to notice that after twenty years I still remembered the phone number.
