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Louis Prima – The Wildest!, 1956. Earl Bostic – Bostic Rocks: Hits of the Swing Age, 1958; Art Mooney and His Orchestra – 1958; The Ames Brothers – The Blend and the Beat, 1960; Oscar Peterson – Night Train, 1963 [9] James Brown – Live at the Apollo, 1963 [9] Georgie Fame – Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo, 1964
Louis Leo Prima (/ ˈ l uː i ˈ p r iː m ə /; December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) [1] was an American trumpeter, singer, entertainer, and bandleader. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans–style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band ...
The Wildest! is an album by Louis Prima, first released in 1956. It features singer Keely Smith with saxophonist Sam Butera and the Witnesses. It is considered an innovative mixture of early rock and roll , jump blues and jazz as well as eccentric humor.
After Prima's death in 1978, Butera renamed his band "The Wildest," and played for another 25 years, mostly at Las Vegas lounges. As Burt Kearns recounts on PleaseKillMe, "He paid tribute to Louis Prima every night, opening each set with 'When You're Smiling' and closing with 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' leading the horn section on a stroll through the audience, slapping palms, shaking ...
The Dirty Boogie is the third album from the swing band the Brian Setzer Orchestra.The album is considered as the breakthrough for the band, with their first single being a cover of Louis Prima's "Jump Jive an' Wail", which Prima had made popular in 1956 and included in his album The Wildest!.
The Continental Twist (also known as Twist All Night [1]) is a 1961 film featuring the twist dance. Plot. ... Louis Prima as Louis Evans; June Wilkinson as Jenny;
A luxury overnight train between Los Angeles and San Francisco would be a railway red-eye, but with private accommodations for people to sleep through the night. The last overnight train between L ...
Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928 [1] [note 1] [2] – December 16, 2017), professionally known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist. [3] Smith married Prima in 1953.