[Dixielandjazz] Louis Prima

[Marek Boym]

That's Cielito Lindo.  Wilbur deParis did a great version.

Once I was past the R&R stage (age 17 or 18), I stopped listening to
Louis Prima.  I was later surprised to learn he had been a jazz
player; my first hint was on a Venuti record, where the best and
jazziest solos were by Prima (I was in my later twenties).
Support live jazz!
Cheers

On 23/08/2008, J. D. Bryce <brycejd at comcast.net> wrote:
> Prima's band with Butera and Keely Smith was a major influence on nightclub,
> or so-clled show bands,  in the late 1950s and early 1960s.  Every band was
> doing some version of Prima's show in Las Vegas.  This was true up until the
> Beetles became a major influence.
>
> Louis and Keely did a running bit where he'd say things and she'd throw
> zingers at him.  This put-down routine was filched by Sonny and Cher in
> their nightclub show and their TV show.  Donnie and Marie Osmond used the
> same routine in their TV show.
>
> Musically, their stuff was a mix of Rock and Rock, standards and some trad
> jazz.  Their version of Ciella Luna(sp?) starts off as a tarantella, then
> segues into a swing tempo, and then ends with what can only be called a trad
> jazz chorus with trumpet, trombone and tenor sax as a front line.
>
> They put on a whale of a show.
>
> Jack Bryce
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "EDWIN COLTRIN" <boreda at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Jack Bryce" <brycejd at comcast.net>
> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:33 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Louis Prima
>
>
> > Thanks Steve, I had't recalled the year that I sat ringside in Vegas for
> several nights, courtesy of  the Frontier Hotel , watching Sam Butera and
> the Witnesses  with  Louis Prima.. What an entertainer. I have one CD with
> he and Keely doing most of his most popular tunes.
> >
> >   Thanks for putting  that time in it's place, writting a bio and several
> mental gaps that need to be filled. I remember the year, but what happened
> ???
> >
> >
> >   Slainte
> >
> >   Ye Olde MOuldy Fygge
> >
> >   Ed Coltrin
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