October 13, 2024
Happy Birthday and many, many more to the E Street Band's ace organist, keyboardist, and accordionist Charlie Giordano. As we proved in last year's birthday salute, Charlie's done some very interesting and offbeat things in his long musical career, both before and after he began working with Bruce Springsteen, first in the (Seeger) Sessions Band and later with the E Street Band.
Yet another example: In 2005, Charlie and his "Pizza Band" were part of a unique box-set from chef/producer Sharon O'Connor entitled PIZZA PARTY! It contained a set of traditional and new pizza recipe-cards, accompanied by a CD of Neapolitan-style music performed by Charlie Giordano's Pizza Band. After all, if you're gonna have a pizza party, nothing goes better with some good food than some good music, eh?
The PIZZA PARTY! box-set remains available for purchase by clicking here. And in honor of Charlie's birthday today, here's an upbeat track from the box-set performed by Charlie Giordano's Pizza Band (with Charlie rockin' the squeezebox, of course.) Enjoy their toe-tapping version of the Neapolitan classic "Funiculì, Funiculà" along with whatever you might be eating today:
Tanti auguri di buon compleanno, Charlie Giordano, e buon appetito! Salute!