“Felicità” (happiness) is a song made of small pleasures. Happiness, sing Al Bano and Romina Power, is holding hands and going far away; it's a glass of wine with a sandwich; it's staying close like children. Every verse adds another everyday joy.
The married couple sang it at the 1982 Sanremo Festival, where it came second, and it became a huge hit across Europe and the Soviet Union — it's still adored in Eastern Europe and Latin America.
It's perfect A1 Italian: “la felicità è…” followed by simple nouns and phrases, sung slowly by two clear voices. Learn the list and you've learned a menu of everyday words.