Best remembered for his risque Vegas act of the 1950s, Louis Prima was the ultimate showman. Loud, boisterous, and completely out front, his mix of rhythm and blues, big band music, Italian novelty ...
The granite crypt topped by the trumpet-playing angel stands on what was once a horseracing track, a fitting final resting place for the pony-loving Louis Prima. The inscription on his tomb in ...
When your father was Las Vegas royalty and one of the hippest cats in history, you naturally grow up with music in your blood. Born in 1965, Louis Prima Jr. is the son of Louis Prima and Gia Maione, ...
The cast of 'Jump, Jive and Wail' swings through the music of Louis Prima at the Stage Door Canteen. (Photo by Stage Door Canteen) It's not an exhibit on newly declassified information on the ...
Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced balladeer who became a nightclub sensation in the 1950s with her then-husband, the comically disruptive entertainer Louis Prima, and who gradually emerged from his shadow ...
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Keely Smith, a Las Vegas legend and one of most popular singers in the era of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, died Saturday of heart failure after a long period of declining ...
Nearly 40 years after his passing, Louis Prima makes history on the Billboard Hot 100. The jazz trumpeter, singer, composer and bandleader, who died in August 1978, debuts at #42 on the chart (dated ...
His father was a swing legend who voiced King Louie in Disney’s “The Jungle Book.” This Thursday night, Louis Prima Jr. performs live at City Winery in Northeast D.C. “I cannot tell you how good it is ...
Gia Maione Prima, the widow of singer Louis Prima, who performed alongside him in the last decade of his life and then spent years protecting his musical legacy and introducing it to a new generation ...
If you’re of a certain age, you know Louis Prima's songs and wild on-stage antics from TV or Las Vegas. If you’re younger, you know his songs recorded by younger artists like David Lee Roth and Brian ...
Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses To Release Blow On June 10 A different kind of musical dawn is coming with flashes of rowdy big band, simmering soul and swaggering rock 'n' roll as Louis Prima Jr. and ...
A former bandmate of Louis Prima argues in this 1999 video biography that the exuberant crooner, trumpeter, and composer belongs on the “Mount Rushmore of Italian singers,” alongside Sinatra and ...