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Louis Prima & Keely Smith

The Wildest

The Wildest!

The album cover of Louis Prima’s THE WILDEST! perfectly captures the unabashed and ever-present enthusiasm of the famed Italian-American vocalist/trumpeter–head tilted back, mouth agape, and a smile a mile wide. This 1957 record contains many of Prima’s best-known songs, including the boisterous “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” (covered by David Lee Roth in the ’80s) and the swinging (and self-penned) “Jump, Jive, an’ Wail” (revived in the ’90s by the Brian Setzer Orchestra), along with the jazzy “Basin Street Blues/When It’s Sleepy Time Down South,” a nod to his hero and greatest influence, Louis Armstrong....

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