[Dixielandjazz] Louis Prima

[Marek Boym]

One eye or not, I don't go for most of the later day Prima, despite
The Jungle Book.
and who the hell are  Sonny and Cher?
Cheers

On 23/08/2008, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >Bill Haesler wrote:(polite snip)
>
> >Youse blokes . . . are interfering with my mouldi-oldie one-eyed reputation
> and >tempting me into buying even more of Prima's 50's material.
>
> Dear Bill:
>
> Get some DVDs if any are available. To see Prima and Keely Smith is to see
> where Sonny and Cher came (or stole) from.
>
> Don't overlook his 60s and 70s material with his 5th wife either. When Prima
> and Smith split, he married Gia Maione (1962?) and the show continued. I
> don't think they had any huge recording hits and some say it wasn't the
> same, but their shows in Vegas were superb and mostly SRO till Prima died in
> the mid 1970s. Maione was from New Jersey originally and is still living. I
> believe she is managing Prima's musical estate, (she won a series of
> lawsuits with Keely Smith and others over the rights)
>
> Those in the USA should remember Prima if only for the music backing the
> advertisements for "The Gap" clothing stores in the 1990s. "Jump Jive and
> Wail" for example. I think that's what got the swing dancers going for his
> music. I remember playing a Swing Dance back about 1993 or so where the kids
> specifically requested "Gap Music".
>
> The one-eyes like Bill remember Prima for his marvelous work as a New
> Orleans Jazz trumpet player gigging with the likes of Irving Fazola, Eddie
> Miller, Pee Wee Russell, George Brunis et al.
>
> Yet incredibly, his home town of New Orleans just about totally ignores him.
> What's up with that?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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