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Release Date. 2001. Duration. 01:07:14. Genre. Jazz, Vocal, Blues, R&B. Styles. Traditional Pop, Jump Blues, Swing, Dixieland, Early R&B. Recording Date. January 5, 1940 - April, 1944. Discography Timeline. See Full Discography. Breaking It Up! (1953) The Wildest! (1957) The Call of the Wildest (1957) The Wildest Show at Lake Tahoe (1958)
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Louis Prima (born December 7, 1910, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.—died August 24, 1978, New Orleans) American jazz musician, songwriter, and bandleader best known for his exuberant onstage personality, raspy voice, and composition of the swing music classics “Sing, Sing, Sing” and “Jump, Jive, an’ Wail.” In the 1950s he led one of the first musical ...
Louis Leo Prima grew up in an Italian American family in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the second child of Anthony Prima, who worked as a beverage distributor, and Angelina (née Caravella) Prima, an amateur performer who encouraged her children to take music lessons. As a child, Louis Prima began his musical study with the violin, but he switc...
In 1934 Prima moved to New York City, where he formed the band Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang and played a regular gig at the Famous Door jazz club on 52nd Street, the epicenter of swing music in the 1930s. During this period, Prima traveled to Los Angeles periodically to make cameo appearances as a bandleader or a musician in musical films, such as Bing Crosby’s Rhythm on the Range (1936). He began composing original material and scored a hit with “Sing, Sing, Sing” in 1936. An instrumental version of the song recorded by the Benny Goodman Orchestra in 1937, with fellow musicians Gene Krupa on drums and Harry James on trumpet, quickly became an iconic swing tune.
By 1940 Prima had formed a big band, the Gleeby Rhythm Orchestra. Among the prominent musicians he employed in his bands in the 1930s and ’40s were clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, pianist Claude Thornhill, and teenaged drumming sensation Jimmy Vincent. He wrote and recorded several novelty songs that drew on his Italian heritage, the first being “Angelina” (1944), which is about a waitress working in a pizzeria. Other songs in this vein were “Felicia, No Capicia” (1945), “Please No Squeeza da Banana” (1945), and “Bacciagaloop (Makes Love on the Stoop)” (1947). In 1946 he cowrote (with composers Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, and Stan Rhodes) “A Sunday Kind of Love,” which was recorded by numerous American singers that year, including Jo Stafford, Frankie Laine, and Ella Fitzgerald.
Faced with declining public interest in big bands by the mid-1950s, Prima and Smith went to Las Vegas and began a residency at the Sahara Hotel and Casino. Prima also recruited New Orleans saxophonist Sam Butera, who contributed a lively R&B sound. Soon the new lineup, dubbed the Witnesses, gained a reputation as “The Wildest Show in Vegas.” Prima entered the most celebrated and successful phase of his recording career in 1956 with the release of his album The Wildest!, which featured the hits “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody,” “Buona Sera,” “Oh Marie,” and “Jump, Jive, an’ Wail.” In 1967 he voiced the role of King Louie, the “swinging” orangutan in Disney’s animated musical film The Jungle Book. His recording of “I Wanna Be like You (The Monkey Song)” for the film became a popular Disney song of its era.
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Prima continued to perform at hotels and casinos in Las Vegas into the 1970s, but his shows drew smaller audiences than in earlier decades. He returned to New Orleans, where he and Butera played gigs in the French Quarter. In 1975, after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumour, Prima fell into a coma. He survived for nearly three more years but never regained consciousness.
Listen to Complete Jazz Series 1940 - 1944 by Louis Prima on Deezer. To You, Sweetheart, Aloha (01-05-40), Say "Si, Si" (01-05-40), Sing-A-Spell (01-05-40)...
- June 08, 2009
Real Name: Louis Leo Prima. Profile: American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter. Married to Keely Smith (1953-1961) and Gia Maione (1963). Father of Lena Prima and Louis Prima Jr. He was the voice of King Louie in Disney's The Jungle Book . Born: December 7, 1910, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Died: August 24, 1978, New Orleans ...
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Listen to Complete Jazz Series 1940 - 1944 on Spotify. Louis Prima · Compilation · 2009 · 23 songs.
