Capitol Collectors Series: Louis Prima | 
| Artist: Louis Prima
Label: Emd Int'l
Category: Music
Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 20149
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 077779407224
EAN: 0077779407224
ASIN: B000002UWF
Release Date: May 21, 1991
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| Tracks:
| • | Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody - Louis Prima, Brammer, Julius | | • | Oh Marie - Louis Prima, DiCapua, Eddie | | • | Buona Sera - Louis Prima, Sigman, Carl | | • | Jump, Jive, An' Wail - Louis Prima, Prima, Louis | | • | Basin Street Blues/When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Louis Prima, Mace, Clarence | | • | The Lip - Louis Prima, Klages, T. | | • | Whistle Stop - Louis Prima, Breedlove, Jimmy | | • | 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days - Louis Prima, Donaldson, Don | | • | Banana Split for My Baby - Louis Prima, Irwin, Stan | | • | There'll Be No Next Time - Louis Prima, Berry, Richard | | • | When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)/The Sheik of ... - Louis Prima, Fisher, Mark | | • | Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Louis Prima, Warfield, Charles | | • | I've Got the World on a String - Louis Prima, Arlen, Harold | | • | Pennies from Heaven - Louis Prima, Burke, Johnny | | • | Angelina/Zooma Zooma - Louis Prima, Citarella, Paolo | | • | Beep! Beep! - Louis Prima, Joyce, Jerry | | • | Embraceable You/I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good - Louis Prima, Ellington, Duke | | • | Sing, Sing, Sing - Louis Prima, Prima, Louis | | • | That Old Black Magic - Louis Prima, Arlen, Harold | | • | The Music Goes 'Round and Around - Louis Prima, Farley, Ed | | • | Hey Boy, Hey Girl - Louis Prima, McLollie, Oscar | | • | Lazy River - Louis Prima, Arodin, Sidney | | • | I've Got You Under My Skin - Louis Prima, Porter, Cole | | • | You're Just in Love - Louis Prima, Berlin, Irving | | • | Twist All Night - Louis Prima, Prima, Louis | | • | St. Louis Blues - Louis Prima, Handy, W.C. |
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Amazon.com essential recording
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 71 more reviews...
Hail to "the Chief"! September 19, 2008
Michael A. Coluccio (New York, N.Y.)
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. 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. 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. From the opening number, "Just A Gigolo," I was hooked. There isn't a single track (with the possible exception of "Beep! Beep!") that I didn't enjoy. The man was a master at his craft. 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. Feeling depressed? Down in the dumps? Put on this CD and you'll soon be "jump, jive and wailin'" along with Louis, Keely, Sam Butera, and the rest of the Wildest. Guaranteed!
great CD!!! September 4, 2008
Pierre (Montreal)
I've never heard a bad Louie Prima album. The quality is good the songs are great. Lots of good tunes@!
The Mid-Century Music Modernist May 19, 2008
D. Behrman (Houston)
How many effortless and affecting changes in tempo and rhythmn can one musician make? Louis Prima was the master. And he was a more accomplished man with a trumpet than Louis Armstrong ever hoped to be. On top of all that, when you set him beside Keely Smith, the combination is music magic. 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.
 Extraordinary music on a very bad CD February 25, 2008
A. J. DEALVA (Chula Vista, CA United States)
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?
BANANA SPLIT FOR MY BABY, A GLASS OF PLAIN WATER FOR ME November 3, 2007
COMPUTERJAZZMAN (Cliffside Park, New Jersey United States)
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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