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I really love this CD, it is a fun disc to listen to. Louis Prima and Sam Butera are great together.
Ok i thought I was getting a louis prima album. My fault maybe.But watch out. A totally useless download. I think I have been "bushed/cheny" wound up with an album nothing like louis prima
There's very little I can add to the previous reviews except to say that this was the reason I bought a CD player years ago. The man was a master at his craft. Feeling depressed. Let me assure you, this is Prima at his best, during the wild and swinging Fifties, when his was "THE" act to see in Las Vegas. Put on this CD and you'll soon be "jump, jive and wailin'" along with Louis, his then wife Keely Smith, Sam Butera, and the rest of the Wildest. From the opening number, "Just A Gigolo," I was hooked. More out of curiosity than anything else, I happened to pick up a copy of "Louis Prima: the Capitol Collectors Series" in its audiocassette format back in the early Nineties. No one's a bigger fan of Dean Martin's than me, but when you compare Dino's versions of "Oh, Marie" and "Buona Sera" to Louis', Prima blows him away.
There isn't a single track (with the possible exception of "Beep. Beep.") that I didn't enjoy. Down in the dumps. Guaranteed.
I've never heard a bad Louie Prima album. The quality is good the songs are great. Lots of good tunes@.
How many effortless and affecting changes in tempo and rhythmn can one musician make. On top of all that, when you set him beside Keely Smith, the combination is music magic. Louis Prima was the master. And he was a more accomplished man with a trumpet than Louis Armstrong ever hoped to be. Get the music and listen. At first it may sound like "old timers" music; but stick with it, play it again, and like with great wine, you'll be rewarded after the draught has settled in your guts.
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