Domenico Modugno's 1958 classic song "Volare" is among 66 songs Bob Dylan comments on in his new book coming out in November, "The Philosophy of Modern Song". The evergreen standard, whose actual title is "Nel blu dipinto di blu" and which song of year at the 1959 Grammies, appears in the list of songs including classics by Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Little Richard, and Townes Van Zandt, as well as Cher's "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves", the Eagles' "Witchy Woman", The Fugs' "CIA Man" and Rosemary Clooney's "Come On-a My House", Variety reported at the weekend.

It is not yet clear whether Dylan will analyze the original written by Modugno and Franco Migliacci, which won the 1958 Sanremo Song Festival in a duet with Johnny Dorelli, or one of the countless covers including one by Dean Martin or the rumba-flamenco version by the Gypsy Kings in 1989.