Music critic Joe Queenan has described the song as 'A charming, if goofy, parody of popular Neapolitan organ-grinder music,' and observed 'That's Amore was one of many songs from the early Fifties that helped rehabilitate Italy's image as a land of magic and romance that had somehow been lured from its festive moorings by the glum fascist Benito Mussolini.' Chart performance As an iconic song, 'That's Amore' remains a secondary signature song. That's Amore was used as the title for a 2001 video retrospective of Martin's career and his son, Ricci Martin, titled his 2002 biography That's Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin. The song remains closely identified with Dean Martin. It received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song of that year, but it lost to ' Secret Love' from Calamity Jane starring Doris Day.

In the film the song is performed mainly by Martin, with Lewis joining in and then the other characters in the scene follow. According to Lewis, he personally paid them $30,000 secretly in the hope that one would be a hit for Martin. Lewis commissioned Warren and Brooks to write songs for Martin to sing in the movie. The song first appeared in the soundtrack of the Martin and Lewis comedy film The Caddy, released by Paramount Pictures on August 10, 1953. The song was played in the 1987 film Moonstruck, the 1995 film Grumpier Old Men and the 1999 film Stuart Little. Amore ( pronounced ) means 'love' in Italian. ' That's Amore' is a 1953 song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Jack Brooks, and became a major hit and signature song for Dean Martin, who first recorded and released it that year.

For the MTV reality show, see That's Amore! (TV series).

That's Amore by Elisa Formenti