Cara Mia

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"Cara Mia" is a popular song published in 1954. The title means "my beloved" in Italian. The United Kingdom singer David Whitfield first recorded the song with the Mantovani Orchestra in 1954. This recording made the charts in the United States, and in the UK it was the first record to spend ten weeks in the #1 slot on the charts. In 1965 it was recorded by Jay and the Americans for a #4 chart hit in the USA.

Authorship of the song was credited to "Tulio Trapani and Lee Lange." In reality Lee Lange was a pseudonym for David Whitfield's producer Bunny Lewis, and Tulio Trapani was the nom de plume of the song's co-writer and arranger Mantovani.

[edit] Recorded versions

• David Whitfield (with Mantovani and His Orchestra) (1954)
• Jay and the Americans (1965)
• Mario del Monaco (with Mantovani and His Orchestra)
• Gordon Macrae
• Jose Carreras
• Richard Clayderman
• Josef Locke
• Matti ja Teppo (1976, Finnish lyrics)
• Frank Patterson
• Gene Pitney
• Nikolai Volkoff
• Slim Whitman
• The Johnny Mann Singers
• Måns Zelmerlöw (2007) - a different song with the same name