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  • Musical Interlude topic for January 2024

    01/01/2024 2:06:05 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 35 replies
    YouTube etcetera ^ | October 19, 2015 etcetera | George Gershwin et al
    Rhapsody in Blue | 17:14The Bobs - Topic | 851 subscribers | 1,957 views | October 19, 2015
  • Musical Interlude topic for February 2023

    02/04/2023 10:17:51 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 37 replies
    YouTube etc ^ | January 12, 2017 etcetera | Foghat et al
    Lead Vocals: Lonesome Dave | Vocals: Rod Price | Vocals: Craig MacGregorLead Guitar: Rod Price | Guitar: Lonesome Dave | Bass Guitar: Craig MacGregor | Drums: Roger EarlWriter: Dave Peverett | Writer: Rod Price | Engineer, Percussion, Producer: Nick JamesonDigital Remasterer: Bill Inglot | Digital Remasterer: Ken Perry | 1977 BearsvilleHome in My Hand (Live) (2016 Remaster) | Foghat49.6K subscribers | 128,894 views | April 16, 2016Provided to YouTube by Rhino
  • Iconic vocalist Keely Smith dies from apparent heart failure at 89

    12/17/2017 9:53:04 AM PST · by EveningStar · 46 replies
    The Mercury News ^ | December 17, 2017 | Jim Harrington
    Keely Smith has died at age 89. Here is a press release regarding her death: “Keely Smith, the iconic singer/performer known for her many solo recordings as well as her musical partnership with first husband Louis Prima died in Palm Springs, CA on Saturday, December 16. She was 89 and under physicians’ care at the time of her passing from apparent heart failure. Born Dorothy Jacqueline Keely in Norfolk VA on March 9, 19 28 of Native American (Cherokee) and Irish parentage, Smith showed a natural aptitude for singing at a young age. At 14, she sang with a naval...
  • Obituary: Gia Maione Prima (wife of Louis)

    09/24/2013 11:01:00 AM PDT · by raccoonradio · 13 replies
    legacy.com ^ | 9/24/13 | legacy.com
    Gia (a/k/a JoAnn) Maione Prima died on September 23, 2013 in Florida at the age of 72. She was an American singer and widow of singer Louis Prima. Gia was born May 20, 1941 in Roebling, New Jersey. From the early age of 3, her sole interest was music. At age 4 began 17 years of piano and extensive vocal training under Alma Steedman, Choir Director at Westminster Choir College at Princeton University. Upon graduation in June 1959 from Toms River High School (now known as Toms River High School South) in New Jersey, she received the National Arion Society...
  • Sam Butera dies at 81; 1950s-'60s tenor saxophonist

    06/05/2009 2:11:15 PM PDT · by scott says · 27 replies · 747+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | June 5, 2009 | Adam Bernstein
    Sam Butera, a hard-swinging tenor saxophonist who formed a rowdy and successful onstage partnership with entertainers Louis Prima and Keely Smith in the 1950s, died Wednesday at a hospital in Las Vegas. He was 81. He had Alzheimer's disease, according to a report in the Las Vegas Sun. Prima, nearly 20 years older than Butera, was a composer ("Sing, Sing, Sing"), trumpeter, singer and irrepressible stage performer, a combination of Louis Armstrong and Jerry Lewis. His career was on the wane when he teamed in 1954 with Butera, who a few years earlier had been named the country's outstanding teenage...