Details
Track Listing
1. Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody
2. Oh Marie
3. Buona Sera
4. Jump, Jive, An' Wail
5. Basin Street Blues / When It's Sleepy Time Down South
6. Lip, The - (with Keely Smith)
7. Whistle Stop
8. 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days
9. Banana Split For My Baby
10. There'll Be No Next Time - (with Sam Butera)
11. When You're Smiling / The Sheik Of Araby
12. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home - (with Keely Smith)
13. I've Got the World on a String
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. Angelina / Zooma Zooma
16. Beep! Beep!
17. Embraceable You / I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good - (with Keely Smith)
18. Sing, Sing, Sing
19. That Old Black Magic - (with Keely Smith)
20. Music Goes 'Round and Around, The - (previously unreleased)
21. Hey Boy! Hey, Girl! - (with Keely Smith)
22. Lazy River - (previously unreleased, stereo, unedited)
23. I've Got You Under My Skin - (with Keely Smith)
24. You're Just in Love
25. Twist All Night
26. St. Louis Blues
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Louis Prima, Keely Smith (vocals); Sam Butera (vocals, tenor saxophone).
Includes liner notes by Scott Shea and track annotations by Bob Furmanek.
Digitally remastered by Bob Norberg (October 1990, Capitol Recording Studios).
Louis Prima was an innovator without equal. Jump blues/jazz icons Louis Jordan and Slim Gaillard shared Prima's penchant for combining R&B with swing and good humor, but Prima's cross-section of influences is as singular at it is striking. When Prima made his major impact in the pre-rock & roll '50s, it was a downright bizarre experience to see/hear an Italian-American combining blues, swing, pop, R&B and Italian songs in a wild, unfettered style that foreshadowed the arrival of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis.
If you're a newcomer to Prima's work, you'd be hard pressed to find a better introduction than this 26-track compilation that includes his most popular material. With R&B saxman Sam Butera and singer/wife Keely Smith as his foils, Prima was an arresting, original voice in American music, and this collection makes the reasons plain.
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