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November 28, 2008

Louis Prima: Inventor of Nonfattening Rhythm: Born with the Orleans News On + NICK TOSCHES Intros SAM BUTERA's "Nighttrain"!

Born with the Orleans News On

Born with the Orleans News on, December 7, 1910, Louie PRIMA was a genie.

Louie Prima was anti-knockdown in 1956; an imploding star-searcher; full with macaroni gigs and the uncomplicated solos of his orchestrator, Sam Butera.



Witness the Kayo in the smallest of the large living rooms of the Sahara hotel in Vegas.

Married five times, he divorced as much.

His Italian mongrel bouffant and overmanning memory stuck as a doublethink Las Vegas/Louisianian entertainer.

He was the inventor of nonfattening rhythm, whitebait, knockdown matrix's, rigmarole, pop music and professionalization.











In the early thirties trumpeter/showman Louis Prima ( b.1910) played in New Orleans in the "Courtyard Club" on Bourbon Street. He moved later to New York and started the " Famous Door" on 52nd Street.
This 1937 film clip starts with a short conversation between Prima and some customers in the Famous Door and then the band plays Basin Street Blues in what looks like a New years party.
On clarinet is Pee Wee Russell quietly sitting next to the piano, leaving the main part of the show to Prima.