This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS— New Orleans-born singer Louis ...

If you’re of a certain age, you know Louis Prima's songs and wild on-stage antics from TV or Las Vegas. If you’re younger, you know his songs recorded by younger artists like David Lee Roth and Brian ...

To many on the outside, Louis Prima's place in American music history is tenuous. With one jazz standard ("Sing Sing Sing"), one early rock classic ("Jump Jive 'N' Wail"), and a string of novelty hits ...

Turn your entertainment clock back a multitude of decades from the 1920’s to the 1960’s to celebrate the legendary Louis Prima. As a bandleader, singer, songwriter, actor and trumpeter, Louis Prima ...

The Wildest! (1957) is the first album by Louis Prima and Keely Smith with Sam Butera and The Witnesses. Prima had found the right cast for his mad mixture of swing, Italian double talk and deadpan ...

You can see the imprint of New Orleans, his hometown, in Louis Prima’s irrepressible stage performances. Often, he and his band jumped around and hammed it up so exuberantly that it was hard for ...

The apple may not fall far from the tree but every once in a while it bounces a little. Louis Prima Jr. has just released his debut album, which would have made his famous dad proud. Louis Prima was a ...

A former bandmate of Louis Prima argues in this 1999 video biography that the exuberant crooner, trumpeter, and composer belongs on the “Mount Rushmore of Italian singers,” alongside Sinatra and ...

To celebrate Prima in New Orleans, the New Orleans Jazz Museum has mounted a yearlong exhibit, "The Wildest: Louis Prima Comes Home," which includes rare Prima family artifacts and photos, listening ...

Best remembered for his risque Vegas act of the 1950s, Louis Prima was the ultimate showman. Loud, boisterous, and completely out front, his mix of rhythm and blues, big band music, Italian novelty ...