Vecchio frac

"Vecchio frac" (literally "Old tailcoat") is a song written by Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno.

The song is a dramatic ballad, with Modugno telling a story about an elegant man in tailcoat who is walking at midnight through the deserted streets and at dawn he commits suicide, and Modugno does not know who this man is and where he comes from. This song gets inspiration from the story of Raimondo Lanza di Trabia, who committed suicide by jumping from a window of Hotel Eden in Rome.

The song was covered by Claudio Villa on his album Claudio Villa canta Modugno, and by Enrico Ruggeri.