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Music CD - Louis Prima: Capitol Collectors Series: Louis Prima
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Music CD: Capitol Collectors Series: Louis Prima
Artist: Louis Prima
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $7.63
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks:
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1. Just A Gigolo - I Ain't Got Nobody (Medley)
2. Oh Marie
3. Buona Sera
4. Jump, Jive, An' Wail
5. Basin Street Blues - When It's Sleepy Time Down South
6. The Lip
7. Whistle Stop
8. 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days
9. Banana Split For My Baby
10. There'll Be No Next Time
11. When You're Smiling - The Sheik Of Araby (Medley)
12. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
13. I've Got The World On A String
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. Angelina - Zooma Zooma (Medley)
16. Beep! Beep!
17. Embraceable You - I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
18. Sing, Sing, Sing
19. That Old Black Magic
20. The Music Goes 'Round And Around
21. Hey, Boy! Hey, Girl!
22. Lazy River
23. I've Got You Under My Skin
24. You're Just In Love
25. Twist All Night
26. St. Louis Blues
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0077779407224
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: 1991-05-21
Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Extraordinary music on a very bad CD
Comment: There is no other as talented and timeless as Luis Prima, and this is an amazing collection. However, the CD only plays some of the time and in some CD players...it never does. It is very frustrating! Why bother buying this if you can't enjoy it?
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Summary: BANANA SPLIT FOR MY BABY, A GLASS OF PLAIN WATER FOR ME
Comment: IF YOU LIKE THE MUSIC OF LOUIS PRIMA, THIS IS THE ONE CD TO GET. FEATURES DUETS WITH HIS WIFE KEELY SMITH AND BACKUP BY SAM BUTERA AND THE WITNESSES, IT HAS ALL OF THE WELL KNOWN LOUIS PRIMA SONGS, WITH GREAT RECORDING QUALITY. FUN, UPTEMPO, HUMOROUS AND SWINGIN'. HOW I WISH I COULD HAVE CAUGHT THIS LOUNGE ACT IN VEGAS BACK IN THE 50S.
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Summary: Fun!
Comment: Upbeat and fun, this CD is timeless. It's great for playing at dinner parties and if you just want a pick-me-up. This CD is one of our family favorites.
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Summary: Good Prima
Comment: This is a good collection of the best hits of the unique Louis Prima with his very special Italian-jazzy style.
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Summary: The joy of life!
Comment: This disk rocks, and is packed with great, upbeat music. It brims with humor and spirit. Even though it runs for well over an hour, I feel let down when it's over.
Unlike many of the people who have posted here before me, I have no particular interest in the swing revival, and I did not come across Louis Prima via Brian Setzer. Brian Setzer is, however, as good a link to Louis Prima as any. Prima was a mysterious figure who played heavily in the otherwise fictional 50's period Italian food film "Big Night" (1996). Intrigued, I bought this disk after seeing "Big Night" in the theatre.
The song "Beep Beep" is dated and corny, but it differs from the rest of the disk only in its space-age subject matter and "otherworldly" slide-guitar sound effects. It was topical during the late-50's space race. Everything else holds up perfectly well over 40-plus years.
Prima's band is tight, yet spontaneous and not sterile. He has a great onstage comic rapport with cohort Sam Butera, and also with his then-wife and straight-woman Keely Smith.
An example from "Embraceable You" --
Keely (singing): "Why don't you come and get your baby-do..."
Louis (aside to the audience): "Call from 'The Point'."
This disk is a must for any non-classical music lover with a pulse. This is in my top 5 CD's, out of perhaps 400 I own, and is certainly a "desert island disk." Deservedly, almost everyone on this page has given it 5 stars. It doesn't get any better than this, kids. (Adapted from my review of 10/27/1999.)
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Editorial Reviews:
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Band leader and lounge kingpin Louis Prima will be best be known for the classic, "Just a Gigolo," immortalized by David Lee Roth for a whole new generation of swingers. But Prima's output went much further: in his day he recorded for Capitol, acted in a movie or two, even owned a golf course. Prima's genius is infectious: lounge, swing, and Dixieland all fuse together into medleys that are fun, dance-worthy, and upbeat. Prima's duets with Keely Smith are the obvious highlights here: "That Ol' Black Magic," "Hey Boy! Hey Girl!," and "I've Got You Under My Skin" are essential Prima tracks. Sure, the cheese factor occasionally runs high, but it is a fun trip. --Jason Verlinde
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