Dans son ouvrage Dean et moi[10],Jerry Lewis, son partenaire dans le film, écrit avoir payé 30 000 dollars à Harry Warren et Jack Brooks pour composer une chanson à succès pour Dean. Il confesse ne jamais lui avoir avoué cette demande[11].
Au début, Dean Martin n'aimait pas cette chanson. Il ne voulait même pas l'enregistrer[12],[13].
Nicholas E. Tawa, Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and what They Said about America, Scarecrow Press, , 91– (ISBN978-0-8108-5295-2, lire en ligne)
Susan Sackett, Hollywood Sings!: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Academy Award-nominated Songs, Billboard Books, (ISBN978-0-8230-7623-9, lire en ligne)
Jerry Lewis (en collaboration avec James Kaplan) (trad.de l'anglais par Yves Sarda), Dean et moi, Paris, Flammarion, coll.«POPculture», , 332p. (ISBN978-2080689498), trad. de l’anglais: Dean & Me: a Love Story, Doubleday, New York, 2005, (ISBN0-7679-2086-4)
«Although Martin thought the song was ridiculous and did not want to record it, he debuted it in the movie The Caddy and the single went to number two on the Billboard charts. The Americans liked such silly gimmick songs because Italians, more than any other ethnic group, seemed to correspond to favorite stereotypes of ...»
«In 1953 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made a film called The Caddy, which includes a famous scene of Jerry rollerskating through a china shop. Jerry had told the songwriter Harry Warren that in order to retain the balance, he must write a big hit song for Dean in the film. He and a Liverpoolborn composer, Jack Brooks, wrote an Italian novelty, 'That's Amore'. Dean thought the song was an insult – he hated the cod-Italian of 'When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, That's amore.' The lyric had been written by a Russian Scouser who had moved to Hollywood, and as Jack Brooks was sensitive about his own background, the last thing he would have done was insult Dino. Indeed, it's a great line and the song was ideal for him – and Jerry.»
