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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.
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 1998 version was seen as an archive footage clip was featured during the music "Dickie's Dream" by Count Basie in the final episode, "A Masterpiece by Midnight" from the 2001 Ken Burns documentary Jazz. The Gap used Prima's version in a "Khakis Swing" commercial in 1998. [6] Louis Prima's version is used in the 2008 MGM animated film Igor.
The duet recorded by Louis Prima and Keely Smith was released as a single in 1958 on the Capitol label. It reached a peak of 18 on the Billboard Hot 100. This particular version was performed on Sam and Friends by Sam and Kermit the Frog, Sam performing as Prima and Kermit dressing
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. [2] [3] [4]
Sam Butera (August 17, 1927 – June 3, 2009) was an American tenor saxophonist and singer best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith.Butera is frequently regarded as a crossover artist who performed with equal ease in both R&B and the post-big band pop style of jazz that permeated the early Vegas nightclub scene.
The resulting recordings were Prima's combination of Italian shuffle, R&B, and comic novelties, and Miller's staid arrangements. [1] A few of the tracks featured Keely Smith on vocals. [ 1 ] Prima left Columbia over a dispute over who would record " Come On-a My House ", and returned to recording for his own Robin Hood Records until such time ...
Louis Prima with Keely Smith (1957) Billie Holiday (1959) Ricky Nelson (1960) - More Songs by Ricky [4] Della Reese (1960) Brook Benton recorded it for his 1960 album Songs I Love to Sing [5] Ella Fitzgerald on her 1961 Verve release Ella in Hollywood; Ann-Margret (1961) Sam Cooke (1962) Sarah Vaughan (1962) - Sarah + 2 [6] Dinah Washington ...