Buzadero
447 posts
Jun 15, 2010
4:44 PM
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Yea baby.
Consummate showman. Sketchy personal life.
He and Butera were awesome in my book.
He's been a guy for me to steal licks from for harp since I was a little kid.
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~Buzadero
Underwater Janitor, Patriot
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Nastyolddog
928 posts
Jun 15, 2010
6:24 PM
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Don't know?
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Nastyolddog
929 posts
Jun 15, 2010
6:25 PM
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Must look:)
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oda
351 posts
Jun 15, 2010
8:47 PM
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cuz' I ain't got noboooooody. Nobody.
ZOOTOO ZOOTOO. GURDIS GURDIS. LET'S SEE THE WOLF.
I love that song. I enjoy how he started making up words ala Bill Cosby.
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I could be bound by a nutshell and still count myself a king of infinite space
OdaHUMANITY!
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barbequebob
927 posts
Jun 15, 2010
8:54 PM
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Louis Prima was essentially the white equivalent of jump blues great Louis Jordan.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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jbone
346 posts
Jun 15, 2010
9:54 PM
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love him.
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Andrew
1016 posts
Jun 16, 2010
2:55 AM
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I listened to him a lot in the Eighties, but not since then. Keeley Smith's singing is only half her act - you have to have the visuals too. Apart from the fact that she's good-looking, there was a lot going on in that act that you can't hear in audio recordings. Unfortunately, the best videos aren't that easy to find on YouTube.
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Kinda hot in these rhinos!
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Greg Heumann
544 posts
Jun 16, 2010
1:03 PM
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Yeah - I'm a big fan of both Louis Jordan and Louis Prima. One of the things that comes through to me in Prima's performance is the sheer joy and fun of playing music. I love that.
The essential Louis Prima can be found on a 1991 Capitol records release called Louis Prima - Collector's Series.
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/Greg
BlowsMeAway Productions
BlueState - my band
Bluestate on iTunes
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barbequebob
933 posts
Jun 16, 2010
1:11 PM
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Sheer joy I agree with and I've always dug Sam Butera on sax. Louis was from New Orleans and so many musicians intermingled genre wise so much it was hard not learn from everyone else down there. On record, he had that classic jump blues sound far sooner than most white musicians ever did at the time.
The paralells I see between Louis Jordan and Louis Prima are their jump blues tunes and the number of novelty tunes they both recorded over the years. Louis was one of the first white musicians I've ever heard on record that really could play behind the beat, which was really unusual back in the late 40's and the 50's.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
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rabbit
101 posts
Jun 16, 2010
10:07 PM
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+1, Keely Smith.
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