The exhibit, Louis Prima: The Wildest Comes Home, is on display at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Avenue. Hours are Tuesday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Closed on ...

Louis Prima’s music was enjoying a resurgence at the time. Advertisement. One of the elder Prima’s signature songs, “Jump, Jive, An’ Wail,” appeared in a Gap ad.

The widow of legendary Las Vegas crooner Louis Prima has come out against the biographical musical, saying that the production is “almost 100% falsehoods” and a “totally untrue, ...

Louis Prima: Jump Jive and Wail: The Essential Louis Prima. by David Rickert December 6, 2007. It's likely that Louis Prima would have faded into obscurity if not for the Gap ad that featured young, ...

Prima had last appeared on the Hot 100 dated Feb. 13, 1961, with the song “Wonderland by Night.” He, thus, ends a record break of 57 years, four months and two weeks between Hot 100 ...

Louis Prima Jr. was born in Las Vegas on Father's Day 1965. His mother was Prima's fifth wife, singer Gia Maione Prima, who also had a daughter named Lena with Prima.

In 1954, Louis Prima heard Mr. Butera there and recruited him for his soon-to-be-legendary band in Las Vegas. Mr. Butera died on Wednesday, June 3.

"Louis & Keely 'Live' at the Sahara," a musical homage to the 1950s Vegas act and stormy marriage of Louis Prima and Keely Smith, opens Wednesday at the Geffen Playhouse.

Singer Keely Smith died on Saturday after a long bout of ill health. She was best known for her work with band leader Louis Prima in the 50s and 60s, and for their hit, "That Old Black Magic." ...

Keely Smith and Louis Prima publicity photo from Dot Record, a division of Paramount Pictures. The photo is dated 1959. Ran on: 03-20-2008 Keely Smith, above, appears at the Rrazz Room this week.

Tonight, Louis Prima Jr. will accompany the sausage, peppers and zeppoles at Belmar's Feast of San Gennaro. Alongside him: the Witnesses, featuring singer Sarah Spiegel, ...

Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced balladeer who became a nightclub sensation in the 1950s with her then-husband, the comically disruptive entertainer Louis Prima, and who gradually emerged from his ...