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The Godfather of cool! The greatest hits of lounge Rock 'n' Roll! Features the original honkin' sax man, Sam Butera! - 'I'm not trying to say that Louis Prima, Keely Smith and Sam Butera had any appeal for 50's teens,' writes Billy Vera in his liner notes. 'They did not, but what they were playing was, in every other sense, Rock 'n' Roll. Rocking music for the working guys who were past high school and unlikely to attend college.' Louis Prima came out of New Orleans and his high energy music was, as Billy Vera says, Rock 'n' Roll in all but name, so he well and truly belongs in our acclaimed ROCKS! Series. Out of fashion for years, Prima came back with a vengeance as the unseen star of a movie, 'Big Night,' and the Godfather of the Nineties Swing craze when rocker David Lee Roth revived his 'Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody' and clubs and young bands played this music for a whole new generation of dancers who dressed in the clothes of an earlier, hipper time. Writer Nick Tosches was the first to rehabilitate Louis Prima: 'He presaged the Rock 'n' Roll of the ridiculous. He perceived and embraced in all it's tutti-frutti glory, the spirit of post-literate, made-for-television America.'
Buona Sera
Hey Boy, Hey Girl
Pennies from Heaven
Jump, Jive, An' Wail
When You're Smiling/The Sheik of Araby
Oh Marie
The Pump Song
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
Bim Bam
Beep! Beep!
Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days
Be Mine (Little Baby)
Whistle Stop
Oh, Marie
Bourbon Street Blues
When the Saints Go Marching in
Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Seven Out
Ten Little Women
Equator
Fever
Shy
Love Charm
Put Your Mind at Ease
Rock-A-Doodle-Doo
Much Too Young to Loose My Mind
Angelina/Zooma Zooma
The White Cliffs of Dover
Hey Boy, Hey Girl (Reprise)
