Bixio, Cesare Andrea 10/11/1896 - 03/05/1978

Wikipedia:
Cesare Andrea Bixio (born October 11, 1896 in Naples; † March 5, 1978 in Rome) was an Italian composer.

Bixio wrote about 150 film scores and about 500 popular Italian songs.

The German version ''Mama'' of the Italian song ''Mamma'', originally written by Bixio in 1938 for the famous opera singer Beniamino Gigli, became famous through the 1967 recording and resulting popularity of the Dutch child star ''Heintje''. The single stayed in the German charts for 54 weeks in 1967-68. The song gained international fame through the interpretation of the Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, arranged by Henry Mancini and released in 1984.