Belmont Avenue - Bobby Conte Thornton

[00:26.267]CALOGERO: (speaking) It's 3AM in the Bronx, New York.
[00:29.637]I'm on the corner of 187th and Belmont Avenue.
[00:33.540]This was my neighborhood.
[00:36.371]I can still hear a million voices in my head.
[00:39.533]Hear a million stories.
[00:42.176]CALOGERO: This is a Bronx Tale.
[00:45.268]And it's my story.
[00:48.390]The world I lived in.
[00:50.502]The people I knew.
[00:54.661]It's just a Bronx Tale.
[00:57.537]And, like they all do,
[01:00.594]It starts right here on Belmont Avenue.
[01:10.546]I can hear the church-bells and smell the freshly baked bread. (Ah-oo)
[01:17.623]See the storefront awnings. The neon green, white and red. (Ah-oo)
[01:24.646]Cannolis on tray after tray,
[01:28.039]Salamis strung up on display.
[01:31.405]And Italians are all that you see!
[01:34.045]COMPANY: Yeah, yeah! And the sidewalk's swinin'!
[01:36.931]Yeah, yeah! And the girls are singin' shoop shoop!
[01:42.155]CALOGERO: As they pass my stoop.
[01:45.726]And the pushcart peddlers,
[01:47.797]They hawk their wares door to door! (PHIL: (hawking) Pesce fresca! Pesce fresca!)
[01:52.263]CALOGERO: While the jukebox jockeys dance in the candy store
[01:56.473]GUYS: Ba Da Da, Ba Ba Ba Dada!
[01:59.854]GUYS AND GIRLS: Ba Da Da, Ba Ba Ba Dada!
[02:02.192]CALOGERO: Grandmas callin' across (GRANDMA (calling): Cia, bambini!)
[02:05.290]While stirring the Sunday sauce (DOO-WOP GROUP: Ciao, Nonna!)
[02:08.666]And in the middle, was me!
[02:10.997]MEN AND DOO-WOP GROUP: Oh, oh. And the street starts sighin'
[02:14.370]MEN AND WOMEN: Whoa, whoa When the girls strut by in a group.
[02:17.981]C'mon, c'mon
[02:19.249]CALOGERO: Strut right past my stoop!
[02:26.537]MEN: Stickball, kick the can
[02:27.845]WOMEN: Orchard beach in the sand
[02:29.911]MEN: Find a girl and cop a feel.
[02:32.788]Brylcreem, wet dream.
[02:34.997]Bring her home and close the deal.
[02:36.539]WOMEN: No, no, no.
[02:37.314]No, no, no.
[02:38.381]No, no, no.
[02:39.672]DOO-WOP GROUP:
[02:40.185]Next year's Frankie Valli’s
[02:41.349]Croonin' in the alleys,
[02:43.111]Getting those falsettos to soar!
[02:45.457]MEN: While the carmelie sisters
[02:47.527]Scream at the transistors
[02:49.344]Ev'ry time the bombers score!
[02:51.928]MEL ALLEN (on radio): That ball is going, going, it is gone!
[02:56.529]ALL: Hangin' with the crew (On the stoop, on the stoop, the stoop)
[02:59.660]ALL: On Belmont Avenue! (On the stoop, on the stoop, the stoop)
[03:03.241]ALL: Gotta love the view! (On the stoop, on the stoop, the stoop)
[03:06.322]CALOGERO AND DOO-WOP GROUP: Belmont Avenue
[03:10.768]ALL: And on the sultry summer nights,
[03:13.873]Man, the corner would rock!
[03:16.726]The romance, the laughs, the fights.
[03:20.143]The universe on one little block!
[03:24.021]WOMEN: Ay-oh! (MEN: Everybody!)
[03:27.164]WOMEN: Everywhere
[03:28.459]MEN: Everywhere I go!
[03:38.771]CALOGERO AND WISE GUYS: Belmont Avenue! (Yeah, yeah! And the noise is growin')
[03:42.133]Hangin' with my crew! (Yeah, yeah! And the boys are goin' shoop shoop)
[03:45.275]Gotta love the view!
[03:48.446]ALL: Belmont Avenue!
[03:52.359]Woah-oh, woah-oh, woah-oh
[04:09.602]CALOGERO (speaking): And then there was Sonny.
[04:11.672]He was the number one man in the neighborhood.
[04:14.282]All day and all night, he'd be right here on the corner.
[04:18.220]He would stand here noddin’ his head to all the old ladies goin' by with their shopping,
[04:22.426]And they treated him like a god.
[04:24.243]And in my neighborhood, he was a god.
[04:27.610]I couldn't take my eyes off him.
[04:29.715]But he never ever looked at me.
[04:31.800]Never. Until one day.
[04:34.670]I was nine years old.
[04:44.807]This is a Bronx Tale
[04:47.685]And it's my story.
[04:50.544]The one that shattered the world that I knew.
[04:56.507]Here's how it happened.
[04:59.846]And all of it's true.
[05:02.450]It starts right here,
[05:04.019]On Belmont Avenue.