Results for "Swing, Swing, Swing"

Swing, Swing, Swing

Label: Jazztone
Released: 2009

Swing, Swing, Swing

By Keely Smith

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2000
Track listing: When You

Keely smith and the Frankie Capp Orchestra: Swing, Swing, Swing

by C. Michael Bailey
May 1, 2000

No Nouvue Swing. Long Associated with the late bandleader Louis Prima ("...the Sheik of Sicily"), Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, aka Keely Smith, has been performing since the late 1950s. Nearing 70 years young, Ms. Smith shows no intention of slowing down with her recent Concord Jazz release, Swing, Swing, Swing. This disc is a sprite collection of ...

Keely Smith: Swing, Swing, Swing

by Jim Santella
April 1, 2000

Keely Smith swings with the Frank Capp Orchestra in an entertaining session that is sure to appeal to a half dozen different generations. Not just a fad, swing dancing and swing music evolved with the big bands, carried a strong thread through rock & roll, and continued as a hobbyist activity until recent years. Now, large ...

Keely Smith: Swing, Swing, Swing

by Ed Kopp
April 1, 2000

Though Keely Smith appeared in many films and recorded with Count Basie and Frank Sinatra, she's best known as Louis Prima's deadpan sidekick and longtime vocal foil. Smith and Prima were such fixtures on the Las Vegas strip in the '50s and '60s that Smith still claims the title “First Lady of Las Vegas." (She was ...

Keely Smith: Swing, Swing, Swing

by John Sharpe
April 1, 2000

In the 1950s Keely Smith and her husband Louis Prima were one of the hottest acts in Las Vegas. Their fun-filled lounge act emphasized the couple’s sly, sexy interplay and the honking tenor of Sam Butera. Surviving recordings demonstrate why they were billed as “The Wildest Show In Las Vegas.” In 1961 the couple divorced and ...

Swing, Swing, Swing

By Harry Goldson

Label: Weatherbird
Released: 1999

Harry Goldson Big Band: Swing, Swing, Swing

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 1999

Bandleader Harry Goldson’s second release on Weatherbird is much like the first — Jazz–inflected dance music from the popular songbook, sometimes with strings, played in the manner of Ray Anthony, the Elgart brothers or Ted Heath. A second constant is the presence of some of Southern California’s finest studio and session players who give music director ...

Swing, Swing, Swing

By Benny Goodman

Label: Sonar Kollektiv
Released: 1960