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Joe De Chiaro
Date: 16.02.2010Time: 23:19:25 |
My Dad loved Louis Prima! When we were young his music filled our house. My dad would always sing his songs and what was funny was that we thought they werent real songs because of all of the funny lines Louis used to sing!! What was great was that my dad's voice sounded just like Louis' when he sang. So whenever I hear a Louis Prima song I close my eyes and I see my dad singing. That makes me feel SO GOOD ! ! I am SO glad my father brought that music into our lives and how we can now introduce it to our children and grandchildren. I used to play Louis' music everday when my neice was litte and she would sing and dance to all of the songs, even act out the lines that were sang especially Banana Split. The stories were REAL! It made you feel like you were PART of the song !! I have videos of her when she was about three singing and dancing to the music !! I love it! Now she's 18 and she LOVES music. As a matter of fact, we traveled to Pittsburgh for an audtion for a Musical Theater School. It was a LONG 7 hour ride from Bayonne, NJ. On our way home we were all tired and just listening to my ipod but once Angelina Zooma Zooma came on we all started to sing and dance (however you dance in car).and at that point, I knew my Dad was looking down and singing along with us. Thank you so much for all of the good times your music has brought to me and my family !!! |
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macdaddy
Date: 03.02.2010 Time: 21:44:01 |
Tony Bennett paints 2010 Jazz Fest poster 2/2/2010, 5:02 p.m. CST STACEY PLAISANCE The Associated Press (AP) — NEW ORLEANS - Grammy-winning jazz crooner Tony Bennett is taking part in this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival-but he won't be singing. A portrait Bennett painted of his late friend and fellow jazzman Louis Prima is being produced as this year's official Jazz Fest poster. It depicts a laughing Prima with sunglasses perched on his forehead while he holds a trumpet and a jazz band plays in the background. "It's so full of life," Quint Davis, producer of the music festival, said of the poster. "Tony's good." Bennett, 83, said painting the portrait of Prima, a New Orleans native, was one of his life's biggest honors because of his love and respect for Prima, who Bennett said he had known since his early days in the entertainment business in the 1950s. "When you love someone, the love just flows out into the painting," Bennett said in a telephone interview. "When you really have a great friendship and care for someone and you paint them, it just comes out. It's easy." Prima's career spanned five decades in the genres of jazz, swing and pop. He recorded hundreds of songs and wrote "Sing, Sing, Sing," the swing-era anthem immortalized in Benny Goodman's later cover. Bennett said Prima "was like a father to me." He said Prima taught him how to be professional, on time and-in 1950s Las Vegas-not to gamble all his money away. "I was just starting out in the business and had a lot to learn," Bennett said. "He gave me one of the greatest lessons in life because at that time, a lot of entertainers kept gambling and got into a lot of debt. He was a wonderful friend." Bennett said he respected Prima as a performer as much as he did Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire and Louis Armstrong. "Those were the kinds of entertainers I liked," Bennett said. "They wanted to knock people out of their seats. I entertain that way just from knowing those people when I was young. Louis always made everybody have fun when they went to see him." Bennett, who paints under his real name Anthony Benedetto, has three original paintings in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution-one being his portrait of Duke Ellington, which was recently accepted into the National Portrait Gallery. Bennett said he has always felt the need to paint as strongly as the need to play music. "I've always known that I have this thing, that I have to paint," he said. "I paint every day like I study music every day. I just have to do it." The poster is sold during Jazz Fest, which runs April 23-25 and April 29-May 2, and is available for pre-ordering online at art4now.com and nojazzfest.com 
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Ron Cannatella
Date: 08.01.2010 Time: 13:37:40 |
Hello James, Twist All Night will be issued on DVD this year during Louis' Centennial celebration. Stay tuned for the release date... |
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James Leo
Date: 05.01.2010 Time: 19:11:32 |
Louis Prima June Wilkenson film "Twist All Night" will that ever be released on DVD? |
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Ron Cannatella
Date: 01.01.2010 Time: 11:34:24 |
...A Happy Prima New Year !!!! We raise a toast to the beginning of the New Year 2010 and the start of our year-long worldwide 100th birthday celebration remembering Louis Prima during his centennial year!!! His entertainment legacy is as vibrant and vital today as always. The monumental music that he was born to make 100 years ago still thrives, jumps, and jives...and he continues to create happiness everywhere. May the music and the memories of the legendary Louis Prima brighten your New Year throughout 2010 and always! Mrs. Gia Prima and all of us here at the Official Website of Louis Prima would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!!! Happy 100th Birthday, Louis Prima !!! Ron Cannatella Louis Prima Archives Director |
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Ron Cannatella
Date: 24.12.2009 Time: 23:06:18 |
...May you have a Christmas that's Jumpin', Jivin' & Wailin' !!! Remember the true reason for this season! Have a Very Merry Christmas from all of us here at the Official Website of Louis Prima! |
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Denise Clay
Date: 19.12.2009 Time: 18:10:48 |
Happy Birthday Mr. Prima, I remember the first time I saw you perform, it was in 1969 in Vegas, I was only 16, with really good ID, I got in to see you at, I believe it was the Sands, with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, and others. Your music touched my very soul on that day; and today, with my 94 year old aunt and 3 year old niece, we all danced to the beat of 'Just a Gigolo"! Thank you to the Prima family for having a forum that we can enjoy and continue to share in your legacy! With much love, a heart full of respect and deep regard, The Clay Family in Chicago!!!!!! |
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Ron Cannatella
Date: 14.12.2009 Time: 17:21:31 |
Devoted Louis Prima fan Christian Nauwelaers will be the guest on a 30 minute Belgian radio program that will feature the music of Louis Prima on Wednesday December 16th on the main Belgian radio channel La Premiere (a part of the RTBF group).The name of the program is FLASHBACK and hosts are CLAUDE DELACROIX and JACQUES BAUDUIN. Belgian airing time in early afternoon is from 1.30 PM to 2 PM. |
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Joe Taylor
Date: 07.12.2009 Time: 18:56:16 |
On this very special day, Louis' music is playing in my house and making me smile. |
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Joe Taylor
Date: 07.12.2009 Time: 10:51:34 |
Happy 99 Louis! Your music lives long and strong. |