The music was written by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
[1] In 1957, a recording of "All the Way", was made famous by Frank Sinatra[2] It was introduced in the film The Joker Is Wild.
Aside from this song, he also sang "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" for the movie.
It wound up as the flipside of "All the Way" when Capitol Records released the song as a single.
Mina performed "Si, amor", the Italian version of the song, in Canzonissima, a 1968 RAI musical variety series.