[1] The genre consists of a large body of composed popular music—such songs as "'O sole mio"; "Torna a Surriento"; "Funiculì, Funiculà"; "Santa Lucia" and others.
A subsequent Festival of Neapolitan Song on Italian state radio enjoyed some success in the 1950s but was eventually abandoned as well.
The period since 1950 has produced such songs as "Malafemmena" by Totò, "Maruzzella [it]" by Renato Carosone, "Indifferentemente" by Mario Trevi and "Carmela" by Sergio Bruni.
Plácido Domingo recorded a full CD Italia ti amo of traditional and some more modern Neapolitan and Italian songs.
Murolo is known not only as a singer and guitarist, but also as a composer, scholar and collector of the music; his collection of twelve LPs, released in the 1960s, is an annotated compendium of Neapolitan song dating back to the twelfth century.