Description
Release Date: 2012
Label: Bear Family Records
Track List
- Buona Sera
- Hey Boy, Hey Girl
- Pennies From Heaven
- Jump, Jive, An’ Wail
- When You’re Smiling/The Sheik Of Araby
- Oh Marie
- The Pump Song
- I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You
- Bim Bam
- Beep! Beep!
- Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days
- Be Mine (Little Baby)
- Whistle Stop
- Oh, Marie (2)
- Bourbon Street Blues
- When The Saints Go Marching In
Just A Gigolo / I Ain’t Got Nobody
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
Seven Out
Ten Little Women
Equator
Fever
Shy
Love Charm
Put Your Mind At Ease
Rock-A-Doodle-Doo
Much Too Young To Loose My Mind
Angelina/Zooma Zooma (Medley)
The White Cliffs Of Dover
Hey Boy, Hey Girl (reprise)
Notes
Louis Prima came out of New Orleans and his high energy music was, as Billy Vera says, rock ‘n’ roll in all but name, so Louis Prima well and truly belongs in our acclaimed ROCKS! series. Out of fashion for years, Louis Prima came back with a vengeance as the unseen star of a movie, ‘Big Night,’ and the godfather of the Nineties Swing craze when rocker David Lee Roth revived his ‘Just A Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody’ and clubs and young bands played this music for a whole new generation of dancers who dressed in the clothes of an earlier, hipper time. Writer Nick Tosches was the first to rehabilitate Louis Prima: ‘He presaged the Rock ‘n’ Roll of the ridiculous. Louis Prima perceived and embraced in all its tutti-frutti glory, the spirit of post-literate, made-for-television America.’
To that, we can only say Zooma-Zooma!
