Louis Prima & Keely Smith - That Old Black Magic - The Very Best Of Louis Prima & Keely

Cat. no: JASCD1052
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988105223
Release Date: 5th March 2021
Genre: Easy Listening

Bandleader/singer/trumpeter Louis Prima, who’d enjoyed huge successes in the 1930s and ‘40s, mounted a major comeback in the 1950s alongside his new wife Keely Smith, and their band, Sam Butera & The Witnesses.

This compilation, which is one of a closely-linked trilogy, presents the Very Best of Louis Prima and Keely Smith’s duets for RCA Victor, Mercury, Robin Hood, Columbia, Decca and Capitol, between 1949-59.

It features pre-Capitol collectors’ items like ‘Heap Big Smoke (But No Fire)’ (their first record together), ‘I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped’, ‘Enjoy Yourself’, ‘Here Pretty Kitty’, ‘Oh Babe!’, ‘Teardrops From My Eyes’, ‘Ooh-Dahdily-Dah’, etc. 

Their Capitol sides include the million selling ‘That Old Black Magic’, ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’, and tracks from the hit albums “The Wildest”, “The Wildest Show At Tahoe”, “Las Vegas Prima Style” and “Hey Boy! Hey Girl!”.

The punters who buy this one, will soon realise that they have to buy the other two releases in this series!

Tracks: Heap Big Smoke (But No Fire) / Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue / Charley My Boy / I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped / I Ain’t Gonna Take It Settin’ Down / Enjoy Yourself / Here Pretty Kitty / Ai-Ai-Ai / Oh Babe! / Teardrops From My Eyes / Yeah, Yeah, Yeah / Zooma Zooma Baccala / Ooh-Dahdily-Dah / Basta / Barnacle Bill The Sailor / Shepherd Boy / Chop Suey Chow Mein / Until Sunrise / (Nothing’s Too Good) For My Baby / The Lip / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / Sentimental Journey / Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me/I’m In The Mood For Love / Embraceable You/I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good / That Old Black Magic / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / Hey, Boy! Hey, Girl! / (Nothing’s Too Good) For My Baby (Alternate Version)

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