Roma nun fa la stupida stasera

Armando Trovajoli wrote Roma nun fa la stupida stasera for the musical comedy Rugantino, staged in Rome in 1962 by Garinei and Giovannini, who also supplied the words. The song is sung in Roman dialect and asks the city not to play the fool tonight: a serenade addressed to Rome itself rather than to a woman. Rugantino ran for years and travelled to Broadway in 1964 in Italian, an unusual arrangement for the time. Trovajoli, a jazz pianist by training, wrote scores for some three hundred films.